The Anti-Catholic Riot of 1854 & The Know-Nothings: Nothing Has Changed

Homegrown Horror

The year is 1854 and you are walking down Commercial Street in Bath, when you see a man in a bathrobe yelling aggressively about Catholics and how they are ruining the country. What do you do? You decide to go commit arson? Odd choice, but go off! Join B & Jackson as we dive into the political circumstances that led to Maine's other good old fashioned riot!

Sources:

Maine: A History Vol. 1 by Louis Clinton Hatch

"The Riot at Bath, Maine—Church Burned in Open Daylight—Effects of Street Preaching—An Unmolested Mob of Fifteen Hundred" from The New York Times, July 11, 1854

The Catholic Church in the United States: Pages of Its History by Henry De Courcy

Before the Burning of Old South Church in Bath, Maine from The Huntington

The Burning of the Old South Church by Dennis Carr for The Huntington

Third phase, burning of Old South Church, Bath, 1854 from the Maine Memory Network

Know-Nothing Riots of Bath, 1854 by Meg Steele Barker for Embark Maine Tours

Abraham Lincoln on the Know Nothing Party from Digital History

The Know-Nothing Riot of July 6, 1854 by Bob Cram for The Patten Free Library

Encyclopedia Britannica

Wikipedia

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