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- 1844-1963 (Creation)
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11pp
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Archival history
Kerby A. Miller created his transcript of this letter from a copy provided by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (reference number SC17). the letter was originally donated to the society by Florence B. Wickersham of Oshkosh on 7 November 1963.
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Kerby A. Miller's typed excerpt of a letter written by S. Griffith to Sarah W. Lamborn in 1844. Miller describes the letter as 'an anti-Irish nativist's letter on the Philadelphia anti-Irish, anti-Catholic riots of 1844.' The author writes in approval that Philadelphia will soon join New York as the only purely American cities in the Union run by native-born citizens, with the growing support for the American Party following the recent riots and 'bitter feeling here against the Irish.' They claim that the 'Irish police' refused to give testimony or deal with the Irish mob and that no newspaper has yet to provide a 'fair and candid' account of what occurred.