{"product_id":"9781455422029","title":"The Vigilance Committee of '56 by a Pioneer California Journalist","description":"First-hand account of events in San Francisco in 1856. It begins: \"Many accounts of the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco have been published, but all of them, so far as I have seen, were from the pen of members of that organization, or else from persons who favored it. As a consequence their accounts of it were either partial, to a greater or less degree, or imperfect otherwise; and much has been omitted as well as misstated and misrepresented otherwise. I was not a member of the Vigilance Committee, nor was I a member of the opposing organization, known as the Law and Order body, of which General Sherman was the head and Volney E. Howard next in rank. I have never been in favor of mob or lynch-law in any form, and, therefore, had neither sympathy with nor disposition to join the Vigilance Committee...”","brand":"B\u0026R Samizdat Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168606830832,"sku":"9781455422029","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781455422029_p0.jpg?v=1763857662","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781455422029","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}