Category: History - American

The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America From its Incipient Stage to the First Bomb Thrown in Chicago

"Order is Heaven's First Law"--Liberty Enlightening the World--The Red Flag--The Price of Liberty--Our National Institutions--When Judgment and Justice is Abroad in the Land the People will Learn Righteousness 9

Chapters

21. CHAPTER III.

This great and unprecedented anarchistic conspiracy of May 4th will doubtless result in a blessing to America. First, it will teach the administrators of law and justice the nec...

29. CHAPTER XI.

SUPERSEDEAS GRANTED. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S DECISION SUSTAINING THE ORIGINAL VERDICT. PARSONS' LETTER TO GOVERNOR OGLESBY. LINGG DEFIANT. THEY REFUSE TO SIGN A PETITION A...

27. CHAPTER IX.

"In addressing this Court I speak as the representative of one class to the representative of another. I will begin with the words uttered five hundred years ago on a similar oc...

22. CHAPTER IV.

Attorney Zeisler moved to have the jury sent from the room pending a motion, and this the Court refused to do, saying it was a vicious practice, and that the jury should hear al...

23. CHAPTER V.

"We stand in the temple of justice to exercise the law, where all men stand equal. No matter what may have been the deep turpitude of the crime, no matter what may have been the...

25. CHAPTER VII.

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26. CHAPTER VIII.

It is estimated that the trials of the Anarchist conspirators for connection with the Haymarket massacre has cost Cook county and Chicago about $100,000. A calculation made by c...

32. CHAPTER XIV.

DESCRIPTION OF THE EXECUTION. THREATENING LETTERS. PITYING JUSTICE. OUTRAGED LAW VINDICATED. MERCY TO THE GUILTY IS CRUELTY TO THE INNOCENT. THE UNCHANGED EVERLASTING WILL GIVE...

24. CHAPTER VI.

In his instructions to the jury Judge Gary said: "The Court instructs the jury that whoever is guilty of murder shall suffer the punishment of death, or imprisonment in the peni...

35. CHAPTER XVII.

August Vincent Theodore Spies was born in Landeck, Hesse in 1855. His father was a ranger. Spies came to America in 1872, and to Chicago in 1873, where for a number of years he...

20. CHAPTER II.

Scarcely has the chronicler of time recorded fifty years in the eventful history of Chicago since it was known only as a little trading post for the Indians of the west and nort...

31. CHAPTER XIII.

His Excellency, the Governor of Illinois, took action in the anarchists' case on November 10, commuting to imprisonment for life the sentence of Samuel Fielden and Michael Schwa...

37. CHAPTER XIX.

What peace-loving citizen of Chicago desiring her commercial prosperity and the perpetuity of American institutions, with all it means of home and protection for free-born Ameri...

33. CHAPTER XV.

Since Johann Most's release I had often resolved to visit his editorial sanctum and see some of his surroundings, but I never had the opportunity until a few days ago, when I so...

36. CHAPTER XVIII.

He was born in the year 1836, at Bathurst, New Brunswick. His father was a thriving farmer, but in order to give his children the advantages of superior facilities for education...

34. CHAPTER XVI.

BIOGRAPHY OF HERR MOST. HIS PAST CAREER AND EARLY TRAINING. HIS IMPRISONMENT IN THE BASTILLE AND RED TOWER FOR PREACHING HIS GOSPEL OF BLOOD. EXTRACTS FROM HIS INFLAMMATORY UTTE...

30. CHAPTER XII.

CHICAGO, Ill., Nov. 5, 1887.--_The Hon. Richard J. Oglesby, Governor State of Illinois_--SIR: I Samuel Fielden, a prisoner under sentence of death, and charged with complicity i...

19. CHAPTER XIX.

In view of the many phases and complications involved in the labor question, along with the cosmopolitan element engaged in forcing, as it were, measures intended to revolutioni...

28. CHAPTER X.

MISCELLANEOUS MATTER. ARBEITER ZEITUNG. MRS. LUCY PARSONS. HER ARREST IN OHIO. HER ARREST IN CHICAGO. HERR MOST ENDORSING THE BOMB-THROWING. THE PANIC HE COULD CREATE IN A BIG C...

3. CHAPTER III.

Bravery of the Police--The Occupation of the Conspirators--The Trial--Securing a Jury--Bombs in Court--Evidence of Detective Johnson--Parsons Swears He "Won't Eat Snowballs Next...

14. CHAPTER XIV.

Threatening Letters--Pitying Justice--Outraged Law Vindicated--Mercy to the Guilty is Cruelty to the Innocent--The Unchanged, Everlasting Will to Give Each Man His Right--Abuse...

5. CHAPTER V.

Opening Speech by Frank Walker--"We Stand in the Temple of Justice"--Zeisler for the Defense, Ingham for the Prosecution--Messrs. Foster and Black for the Defense--Julius S. Gri...

4. CHAPTER IV.

Under a Cloud--A Struggle For Life--Contesting Every Point by Shrewd Counsel--Braving it Out--Throttling the Law--Fielden on the Stand--Laughable Testimony by Henry Schultz, Who...

16. CHAPTER XVI.

His Past Career and Early Training--His Imprisonment in the Bastille and Red Tower for Preaching His Gospel of Blood--Extracts From His Inflammatory Utterances--"Whet Your Dagge...

10. CHAPTER X.

_Arbeiter Zeitung_--Mrs. Parsons--Her Arrest in Ohio--Her Arrest in Chicago--Herr Most Endorsing the Bomb-Throwing--The Panic He Could Create in a Big City in Thirty Minutes Wit...

1. CHAPTER I.

"Order is Heaven's First Law"--Liberty Enlightening the World--The Red Flag--The Price of Liberty--Our National Institutions--When Judgment and Justice is Abroad in the Land the...

7. CHAPTER VII.

11. CHAPTER XI.

15. CHAPTER XV.

17. CHAPTER XVII.

13. CHAPTER XIII.

18. CHAPTER XVIII.

9. CHAPTER IX.

6. CHAPTER VI.

12. CHAPTER XII.

2. CHAPTER II.

8. CHAPTER VIII.