Alexandre Dumas, and Théophile Gautier in France; Alessandro Manzoni and Giacomo Leopardi in Italy; Aleksandr Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov in Russia; José de Espronceda and Ángel de Saavedra in Spain; Adam Mickiewicz in Poland; and almost all of the important writers in pre-Civil War America...
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Civil war in America had broken out in April and Britain had issued a proclamation of neutrality that in effect assisted the slave-owning south. Opinion was divided; many, especially in the cotton-manufacturing north of England, largely liberal in politics, supported their economic inter...
150 were wounded or injured, and 177 were arrested, in what was the largest civil disturbance in New York at the time. The following day, a mass rally at City Hall was held but when they made their way up to Astor Place, the crowd was dispersed when the militia leveled th...