Download or read book Committee of Vigilance written by George R. Stewart and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1964 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dirty Deeds written by Nancy J. Taniguchi and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California gold rush of 1849 created fortunes for San Francisco merchants, whose wealth depended on control of the city’s docks. But ownership of waterfront property was hotly contested. In an 1856 dispute over land titles, a county official shot an outspoken newspaperman, prompting a group of merchants to organize the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. The committee, which met in secret, fed biased stories to the newspapers, depicting itself as a necessary substitute for incompetent law enforcement. But its actual purpose was quite different. In Dirty Deeds, historian Nancy J. Taniguchi draws on the 1856 Committee’s minutes—long lost until she unearthed them—to present the first clear picture of its actions and motivations. San Francisco’s real estate comprised a patchwork of land grants left from the Spanish and Mexican governments—grants that had been appropriated and sold over and over. Even after the establishment of a federal board in 1851 to settle the complicated California claims, land titles remained confused, and most of the land in the city belonged to no one. The acquisition of key waterfront properties in San Francisco by an ambitious politician motivated the thirty-odd merchants who called themselves “the Executives” of the Vigilance Committee to go directly after these parcels. Despite the organization’s assertion of working on behalf of law and order, its tactics—kidnapping, forced deportations, and even murder—went far beyond the bounds of law. For more than a century, scholars have accepted the vigilantes’ self-serving claims to honorable motives. Dirty Deeds tells the real story, in which a band of men took over a city in an attempt to control the most valuable land on the West Coast. Ranging far beyond San Francisco, the 1856 Vigilance Committee’s activities affected events on the East Coast, in Central America, and in courts throughout the United States even after the Civil War.
Download or read book Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 written by Committee of Vigilance, San Francisco and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vigilance Committee of 1856 written by James O'Meara and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Papers of the San Francisco committee of vigilance of 1851 written by San Francisco Committee of vigilance and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Vigilance Committee of 1856 written by James O'Meara and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the actions of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance that resulted in the lynching of James P. Casey and Charles Cora following the murder of James King.
Download or read book The Vigilance Committee of 1856 written by James O'Meara and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vigilance Committee of 1856 by James O'Meara Many accounts of the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco have been published, but all of them, so far as I have seen, were from the pen of members of that organization, or else from persons who favored it. As a consequence their accounts of it were either partial, to a greater or less degree, or imperfect otherwise; and much has been omitted as well as misstated and misrepresented otherwise. I was not a member of the Vigilance Committee, nor was I a member of the opposing organization, known as the Law and Order body, of which General Sherman was the head and Volney E. Howard next in rank. I have never been in favor of mob or lynch-law in any form, and, therefore, had neither sympathy with nor disposition to join the Vigilance Committee. And while I was earnestly in support of Law and Order, I did not feel that I could better subserve that cause by joining the organization formed at that time, for the avowed purpose of maintaining the one and enforcing the other. I had many friends on each side, and I also knew many in each organization who were unworthy of fellowship in any good or honorable cause or association; and some of these bore prominent rank in each organization. As was said of the Regulators of Texas, who directed their energies chiefly against horse thieves and robbers, that some of the worst and most guilty of them hastened to join the band, in order to save themselves from arrest and the rope or bullet, likewise were there some prominent in the Vigilance Committee of 1856, who undoubtedly joined it for similar reasons-to escape the terrors of the organization; and the Executive Committee was not exempt from these infamous characters. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book The Committee of Vigilance written by Steven C. Levi and published by Academica PressLlc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses and analyzes the rise and fall of the last of the old western vigilance committees - and the rise of the first modern American committee devoted to ferreting out 'Un- American activities' among the laboring poor, union leaders, progressive politicians and social activists.
Download or read book History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 written by Mary Floyd Williams and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vigilance Committee of 56 written by James O'Meara and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governor Johnson had at first played into the hands of the Committee. He had come down from Sacramento to San Francisco, in the middle of May, and virtually caused the surrender of the county jail to the Vigilantes, for the capture of Casey and Cora. At the instance of the leading men of the Law and Order organization, he subsequently changed his course, and endeavored to undo that which he had done. It was too late.
Download or read book Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 III written by San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Committee of Vigilance written by John Byrne Cooke and published by Domain. This book was released on 1994 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the days of the Gold Rush in San Francisco, the shooting of a controversial journalist precipitates the return of the Committee of Vigilance--a citizen's group seeking revenge upon the town's criminal element. But when a ship's captain turns to the committee for justice, he finds himself caught in a maelstrom of violence.
Download or read book California from the Conquest of 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco 1856 written by Josiah Royce and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 written by San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of General William T Sherman written by William Tecumseh Sherman and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
