New York; a sketch of the city's social, political, and commercial progress from the first Dutch settlement to recent times . ed and maintained absolute religious toler-ation and equality before the law. In conse-quence a Catholic church was soon built; whilethe Methodists increased rapidly in numbers andinfluence. The New York Medical Society began its careerin 1788; and one of the most curious of NewYorks many riots occurred shortly mob engaged in this riot was always knownas the doctors mob, because their wrath wasdirected against the young medical students andtheir teachers.
New York; a sketch of the city's social, political, and commercial progress from the first Dutch settlement to recent times . ed and maintained absolute religious toler-ation and equality before the law. In conse-quence a Catholic church was soon built; whilethe Methodists increased rapidly in numbers andinfluence. The New York Medical Society began its careerin 1788; and one of the most curious of NewYorks many riots occurred shortly mob engaged in this riot was always knownas the doctors mob, because their wrath wasdirected against the young medical students andtheir teachers. Rumors had been rife for sometime that the doctors rifled the graveyards to getsubjects for dissection, which excited the populacegreatly. One day a boy looking into the dissect-ing-room saw the medical students at work on abody, and immediately ran home and alarmed hisfather. Without any more reason than this, themob suddenly assembled, hunted the doctors outof their homes, entered houses and destroyedproperty, refused to obey the commands of thecivil officers when called on to disperse, and finally Federal Hall, The Federalist City 175 came into collision with the State troops, whoscattered them with a volley, killing and woimdingseveral. An occasional turbulent outbreak of this sort,however, could not check the citys growth. Com-merce throve apace. The more venturesomemerchants sent ships for the first time to the farChina seas; and in a few years, when the giganticwarfare of the French Revolution convulsed allEurope, New York began to take its full share ofthe traffic which was thereby forced into neutralbottoms. The achievement of liberty had not worked anyradical change in the municipal government of thecity; and the constitution under which the Stateentered on its new life of independence was notultra-democratic, although of course marking along stride toward democracy. The suffrage wasrigidly limited. There were two kinds of fran-chise: any man owning a freehold
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