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Riots such as we have described are primarily social in character, the call of race invariably being the final appeal. The economic motive has accompanied this, however, and has been found to be of increasing importance.
Marat lived in hiding until August of Seventeen Hundred Ninety-two, when he again publicly appeared and led the riots. The people hailed him as their deliverer. The insignificant size of the man made him conspicuous. His proud defiance, the haughtiness of his countenance, his stinging words, formed a personality that made him the pet of the people.
The Bacchanal Queen grew pale, uttered a piercing scream, and rushed out of the room without a word, leaving her guests in stupefaction. These atrocious words were actually spoken during the Lyons Riots. The Bacchanal Queen, following the waiter, arrived at the bottom of the staircase. A coach was standing before the door of the house.
The influence of Lafayette was rapidly undermined by these artful demagogues. He was sincerely attached to the constitution; and was desirous of maintaining inviolate; the power of the, monarch which it guaranteed. He was the friend to law, and opposed all his influence to riots and excesses. He became an object of dread to the Jacobins, and they resolved to destroy him.
Two prisoners have been, in separate instances, forcibly rescued from jail, and they, with about thirty to fifty others implicated in the riots, are still at large, fostering discontent, and creating great disquiet.
Napoleon would never have gone to Egypt, and our shores would never have been threatened with invasion. Nor would British and neutral trade have been paralysed in such a way as to bring in its wake ruin, riots, bankruptcies, and every form of devastation in 1811.
But the protests against the Stamp Act were not limited to eloquent orations or formal resolutions. Deeds, as well as words, made plain the purpose of the American people. Riots broke out in colony after colony; the most and worst in Massachusetts. Boston blazed into open revolt against authority.
I have selected passages from several letters, without mentioning dates. June 2. BOSWELL. Johnson wrote on June 9. See post, p. 435. Thrale at Bath, did not mention the riots. Miss Burney, who was with the Thrales, writes: 'Dr. Johnson has written to Mrs.
It was during this year that the national Jubilee was celebrated, in honour of tile fiftieth year of the reign of George III. When the riots had reached their fiftieth night, the O. P.s also determined to have a jubilee.
"The Rebels are everywhere using the late Anti-Negro riots in the North as they have long used your officers' treatment of Negroes in the South to convince the Slaves that they have nothing to hope from a Union success that we mean in that case to sell them into a bitter Bondage to defray the cost of the War.
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