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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York

• Author(s): New York (State). Legislature. Assembly

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1835
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Report of the Select Committee of the Assembly of 1846

• Author(s): New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Select committee on investigation of frauds in expenditures of public moneys upon canals

• Categories: Canals

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1847
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York

• Author(s): New York (State). Legislature. Assembly

• Categories: Government publications

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1906
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Congressional Record

• Author(s): United States. Congress

• Categories: Law

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1968
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• Publisher: Unknown

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New York Exposed

• Author(s): Daniel Czitrom

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2016-04-07
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• Publisher: Oxford University Press

On a Sunday morning in early 1892, Reverend Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst ascended to his pulpit at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church in New York and delivered one of the most explosive sermons in the city's history. Municipal life, he charged, was morally corrupt. Vice was rampant. And the city's police force and its Tammany Hall politicians were"a lying, perjured, rum-soaked, and libidinous lot." Denounced by city and police officials as a self-righteous "blatherskite," Parkhurst resolved to prove his case. The bespectacled minister descended his pulpit and in disguise visited gin joints and brothels, taking notes and gathering evidence. Two years later, his findings forced the New York St...