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Title: A city's danger and defense. Or, Issues and results of the strikes of 1877, containing the origin and history of the Scranton city guard
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Logan, S. C. (Samuel Crothers), 1823-1907
Subjects: Scranton city guard Pennsylvania infantry. 13th regiment Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 Scranton (Pa.) -- Riot, 1877
Publisher: Scranton, Pennsylvania, (Philadelphia, Press of the J.B. Rogers Print. Co.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ot only for his high personalexcellence,and his perpetual sacrifices and benevolence; in allmatters which concerned the public good, but specially forhis untiring patriotic devotion to the right, in the time ofperil. With the truest sympathy for the honest workman;one of whom he has been all his life, through a long publicservice he opposed with all the force of his nature any deflec-tion from the plain path of honor and honesty. He stoodready to divide his last dollar to aid in the maintenance oftruth and order. The City Guard never had a better or morereliable friend. Without his knowledge, his portrait has beenplaced in this work by his appreciative friends, who knew per-fectly what the result must be if his consent had been asked ;and yet who felt that it is but right to perpetuate the shadow ofthe worthy man who has been the servant of the citys bestinterests in all its history. Mr. Thomas Dickson, the President of the Delaware andHudson Canal Company, was endowed remarkably with
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GrfcUbrftsj THE CITY GUARD IN THE WILDERNESS. 233 practical wisdom, and had the confidence and best wishes ofmore of the workmen in the valley, perhaps, than any otherman; and he did great service in all the labor disturbanceswhich visited the valley. But in the time of the great strikehe was residing in New York. His visit to Scranton, withother railway-men, doubtless did much good in the way ofsoftening down the points of collision, and when he returned,it was with the persuasion that the strike was virtually ended.He was always a man of peace, and had great influence withhonest strikers. Hence he was always a little doubtful ofthe wisdom and necessity of dispersing with deadly meansthe mob which he did not see. Nevertheless he sustained,with characteristic generosity, all the measures undertaken toestablish a City Guard of the best character. The city neverhad a more able or greater-souled citizen than Mr. Dickson,nor the young men of the Guard a better friend. With him were associ

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