The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America: From its Incipient Stage to the First Bomb Thrown in ChicagoMcLean, George N.
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The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America: From its Incipient Stage to the First Bomb Thrown in Chicago
McLean, George N.
Anarchists -- United States; Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886
SPIES ADDRESSES THE COURT.
Three Days' Speeches by the Doomed Men--Their Reason Why the
Law Should Not be Executed 150
CHAPTER X.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTER.
_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 With
3,000 Bombs in the Hands of 500 Revolutionists 181
CHAPTER XI.
SUPERSEDEAS GRANTED.
United States Supreme Court Sustain Original Verdict--Parsons'
Letter to Governor Oglesby--Lingg Defiant--Refusing to Sign a
Petition for Executive Clemency--Their Impertinent Letters to
the Governor 184
CHAPTER XII.
FIELDEN PENITENT.
His Letter to the Governor--Spies' Last Letter to His
Excellency--Willing to Die for His Comrades 219
CHAPTER XIII.
LINGG SUICIDES.
Dr. Bolton With the Prisoners--They Decline Spiritual
Comfort--The Last Night of the Doomed Men--Parsons Sings in
His Cell--Telegrams for Parsons--His Last Letter 223
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 to Give Each Man His
Right--Abuse of Free Speech--"The Mills of God Grind Slow, But
Exceedingly Fine"--Captain Black at the Anarchists' Funeral 231
CHAPTER XV.
A DESCRIPTION OF HERR MOST'S SANCTUM.
A Den Where Anarchy Was Begotten--The Anarchist Chief's Museum
of Weapons and Infernal Machines--Easy Lessons in the Art of
Assassination 240
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 Utterances--"Whet Your
Daggers"--"Let Every Prince Find a Brutus by His Throne." 246
CHAPTER XVII.
BIOGRAPHY OF SPIES.
And the Other Seven Condemned Men--Their Birthplace,
Education, and Private Life--Parsons' Letter to the _Daily
News_, After the Explosion, While a Fugitive From Justice 251
CHAPTER XVIII.
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF JOHN BONFIELD.
Inspector and Secretary of Police Department--Biographies of
Sheriff Matson, Judge Gary, Judge Grinnell--Tribute to Captain
Schaack 259
CHAPTER XIX.
EULOGY TO THE POLICE.
Boldly They Fought and Well--Contrast Between Capital and
Labor--The Anarchists' Fatal Delusion--The United States
National Anthem 264
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PREFACE.
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