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The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 by Joel Tyler Headley
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ABOLITION RIOTS OF 1834 AND 1835.

The Slavery Question agitated.--The End, Civil War.--The Results.--William
Lloyd Garrison.--Feeling of the People on the Subject.--First Attempt to
call a Meeting of the Abolitionists in New York.--Meeting in Chatham
Street Chapel.--A Fight.--Mob take Possession of Bowery Theatre.--Sacking
of Lewis Tappan's House.--Fight between Mob and Police.--Mobbing of Dr.
Cox's Church, in Laight Street.--His House broken into.--Street
Barricaded.--Attack on Arthur Tappan's Store.--Second Attack on Church in
Laight Street.--Church sacked in Spring Street.--Arrival of the Military.
--Barricades carried.--Mr. Ludlow's House entered.--Mob at Five Points.--
Destruction of Houses.--The City Military called out.--Mob overawed, and
Peace restored.--Five Points Riot.--Stone-cutters' Riot.

CHAPTER VII.

FLOUR RIOT OF 1837.

Starvation will always create a Riot.--Foreign Population easily aroused
against the Rich.--Severe Winter of 1836.--Scarcity of Flour.--Meeting of
Citizens called without Result.--Meeting called in the Park.--Speeches.--
Sacking of Hart & Co.'s Flour Store, in Washington Street.--Strange
Spectacle.--National Guards called out.--Disperse the Mob.--Attack on
Herrick's Flour Store.--Folly of the Riot.

CHAPTER VIII.

ASTOR-PLACE RIOTS, 1849.

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