The Murder of McIntosh in 1836 St. Louis
Embedded below is an account of of a horrifying--but surely culturally telling--episode in 1836 St. Louis. Assuming that all of the factual claims in this account are true, what does it tell us about St. Louis's culture in 1836? Further below, I've embedded a Google Street View of the site today where Mr. McIntosh was summarily murdered by a mob. Is it haunting, or liberating, that a long-ago horror in such a place goes unmarked today, and almost entirely forgotten?
Below: the scene today at the site where Mr. McMcIntosh was summarily murdered by the mob. Is it haunting, or liberating, that a long-ago horror in such a place goes unmarked today, and almost entirely forgotten?
Here is how Elijah P. Lovejoy, of Alton, Illinois reacted:
“Awful Murder and Savage Barbarity.” Newspaper Editorial on the Lynching of Francis McIntosh; Elijah P. Lovejoy, editor, St. Louis Observer, May 5, 1836, as seen at http://collections.mohistory.org/exhibit/EXH:CWMO-61
See also:
11.2 (Jun 1, 1980): 37.
Here are embedded several further accounts:
Below: the scene today at the site where Mr. McMcIntosh was summarily murdered by the mob. Is it haunting, or liberating, that a long-ago horror in such a place goes unmarked today, and almost entirely forgotten?
Here is how Elijah P. Lovejoy, of Alton, Illinois reacted:
“Awful Murder and Savage Barbarity.” Newspaper Editorial on the Lynching of Francis McIntosh; Elijah P. Lovejoy, editor, St. Louis Observer, May 5, 1836, as seen at http://collections.mohistory.org/exhibit/EXH:CWMO-61
See also:
The Burning of Francis L. McIntosh: A Note to a Dickens Letter from America
Schwarzbach, F S. Dickens Studies Newsletter11.2 (Jun 1, 1980): 37. Here are embedded several further accounts:
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