Ursuline Convent riot... Letter from the Rocky Mountains...
Item # 711582
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NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, Oct. 11, 1834
* Ursuline Convent riots
Perhaps the most historic content is the 4+ pages dedicated to the: "Ursuline Convent at Charlestown", Massachusetts, which was burned by a hateful mob of Protestants.
Additionally, page 2 has an interesting article on the Boston Tea Party and a discovery of a tea chest, headed: "A Tea Story". Also inside: "Abolition of Slavery" "Interview With Ex-President Adams" and over half a page on: "Rocky Mountain Correspondence" which is an early report on explorations of the West, and contains a letter datelined: "Waters of the Colorado of the West, June 23, 1834".
Sixteen pages, 6 by 9 1/2 inches, great condition.
Background: This issue of Niles’ Weekly Register (Vol. 47, No. 1203) stands out as an exceptionally rare and historically vital artifact of early American journalism, distinguished by its exhaustive, four-plus-page contemporary documentation of the infamous August 1834 Ursuline Convent riot in Charlestown, Massachusetts. As one of the nation’s preeminent primary historical records, Hezekiah Niles’ publication captured the raw aftermath of this anti-Catholic, nativist attack—where an armed Protestant mob looted and burned a Catholic school for young women to the ground—by reprinting crucial official court reports, eyewitness testimonies, and heated public debates as they unfolded. Original single issues from this pivotal month are remarkably scarce on the antiquarian market, making this specific October 11, 1834 edition a prized collector's piece that preserves an early, violent flashpoint of religious bigotry and anti-immigrant sentiment in pre-Civil War America.
As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."
* Ursuline Convent riots
Perhaps the most historic content is the 4+ pages dedicated to the: "Ursuline Convent at Charlestown", Massachusetts, which was burned by a hateful mob of Protestants.
Additionally, page 2 has an interesting article on the Boston Tea Party and a discovery of a tea chest, headed: "A Tea Story". Also inside: "Abolition of Slavery" "Interview With Ex-President Adams" and over half a page on: "Rocky Mountain Correspondence" which is an early report on explorations of the West, and contains a letter datelined: "Waters of the Colorado of the West, June 23, 1834".
Sixteen pages, 6 by 9 1/2 inches, great condition.
Background: This issue of Niles’ Weekly Register (Vol. 47, No. 1203) stands out as an exceptionally rare and historically vital artifact of early American journalism, distinguished by its exhaustive, four-plus-page contemporary documentation of the infamous August 1834 Ursuline Convent riot in Charlestown, Massachusetts. As one of the nation’s preeminent primary historical records, Hezekiah Niles’ publication captured the raw aftermath of this anti-Catholic, nativist attack—where an armed Protestant mob looted and burned a Catholic school for young women to the ground—by reprinting crucial official court reports, eyewitness testimonies, and heated public debates as they unfolded. Original single issues from this pivotal month are remarkably scarce on the antiquarian market, making this specific October 11, 1834 edition a prized collector's piece that preserves an early, violent flashpoint of religious bigotry and anti-immigrant sentiment in pre-Civil War America.
As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."
Category: Pre-Civil War
Price
$45
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.