Captain of Boylan Protective Police. a private agency. Conclusion: Revenge for the killing of Chief Thomas Devereaux was the motivenot the Italians. New Orleans had over a fifty year history of this type of crime. Information: The combination of chicanery and terrorization called "practical politics" was introduced into New Orleans during the elections of 1642 and 1844. By 1848 the politicians began to use newly arrived immigrants as repeaters and in other forms of illegal voting. After this almost every political campaign in New Orleans was marked with violence. The independent or opposition voter who attempted to register his preference at the polls was threatened.
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