JUSTICE OR PERSECUTION: Governor Judge Altgeld's reversal in 1893 of conviction in 1887 of the Chicago martyrs.
Full text of official report of Governor after exhaustive "enquiry". Pp. 48(last blank); small cr. 8vo; printed green paper wrappers, faded, worn and lightly foxed, the backstrip quite chipped, with both wrappers detached and much of the lower wrapper missing; contents stapled and browned, occasional slight soiling; H. E. Langridge, Melbourne, n.d.[1893?]. Australian printing. F.5917. *'So frequent and universal are persecutions of labor agitators and so unready are the public to give the slightest hearing to reflections on the conducts of Courts of Justice, or on the Police, that the following admissions by a Capitalist Judge Governor should always be purchasable everywhere in the cheap form here provided, especially at times and places where a protest against some partisan class prosecution is the topic of the day - justice or persecution' [Foreword]. John Peter Altgeld (1847-1902) was Governor of Illinois from 1893 until 1897. A progressive Democrat, in June 1893 he pardoned the three remaining 'Chicago Martyrs' who had been convicted in 1887 of a bombing that occurred during a labor demonstration in May 1886 at Haymarket Square in Chicago. Item #144505
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