Argument of James T. Austin, attorney general of the Commonwealth, before the Supreme Judicial Court in Middlesex, on the case of John R. Buzzell, one of the twelve individuals charged with being concerned in destroying the Ursuline Convent, at Charlestown
by Austin, James Trecothick
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Boston: Printed by Ford and Damrell, 1834. Pamphlet. 44p. pamphlet, neatly disbound, covers foxed. Buzzell was the professed leader of a group of Protestants who attacked and burned the Catholic convent in what is now Somerville, MA, in one of the landmark events of anti-Catholic persecution in New England. Austin describes the devastation of the riot and describes the anti-Catholic expression of bigotry as un-American. Buzzell is recorded as having later said, "The testimony against me was point blank and sufficient to have convicted twenty men, but somehow I proved an alibi, and the jury brought in a victory of not guilty, after having been out for twenty-one hours.
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- Title
- Argument of James T. Austin, attorney general of the Commonwealth, before the Supreme Judicial Court in Middlesex, on the case of John R. Buzzell, one of the twelve individuals charged with being concerned in destroying the Ursuline Convent, at Charlestown
- Author
- Austin, James Trecothick
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- Pamphlet
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Publisher
- Printed by Ford and Damrell
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1834
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- Roman Catholic; Nineteenth century; Massachusetts; Riots; civil disturbances; 1830s;
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