Rare 1939 1St Edition Dust Jacket Vigilantes San Francisco Illustrated Hangings
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RARE 1939 1ST EDITION DUST JACKET VIGILANTES SAN FRANCISCO ILLUSTRATED HANGINGS. With a great dust jacket in mylar. He was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in 1865, but lost to Republican Cornelius Cole. Under Coleman, these committees ignored habeas corpus, conducted secret trials, lynchings, and deportations, and raised a militia. OFFERED HERE is a great copy of the 1939 first edition, The Lion of the Vigilantes, William T. Coleman, and the Life of Old San Francisco. By James A.B. Scherer, as published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. Sized 9x6 inches, 335 pages, profusely illustrated. With a great dust jacket in mylar. William Tell Coleman (1824–1893) was an American pioneer and politician who served as the Chairman of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. He later served two separate terms in the California State Assembly in 1859 and 1861. He was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in 1865, but lost to Republican Cornelius Cole. Early life William Tell Coleman was born in Cynthiana in Harrison County, Kentucky on February 29, 1824. He was educated at St. Louis University in Missouri. Committees of Vigilance In 1849, Coleman arrived in California and eventually settled in San Francisco, where he engaged in the shipping and commission business. He first emerged as a leading figure in the 1851 Committees of Vigilance in the aftermath of a speech imploring the mob to conduct a formal, albeit illegal, court rather than lynch its targets immediately. Owing to the respect earned from this role, Coleman would be chosen to lead the larger 1856 Committee of Vigilance, which usurped civic power in order to drive out the Democratic Party machine and ostensibly to establish law and order in the aftermath of the assassination of controversial newspaper editor James King of William. Under Coleman, these committees ignored habeas corpus, conducted secret trials, lynchings, and deportations, and raised a militia. The committee would confront city leaders and even Governor J. Neely Johnson with threats of usurping state government and pursuing an independent course bordering on secession, however, Coleman would successfully override Committee radicals. Thus, the 1856 Committee of Vigilance disbanded, but not before transferring power to the new People's Party, which soon merged with the Republican Party and controlled San Francisco until 1867.
