Boston Tea Party? maybe, but to us the streams of GOSPer "debate teams" hearkens back to the "Bloody Sixth Ward," made famous in Scorsese's Gangs of New York.
The 1863 New York Draft Riots arose from Irish resentment that they were being conscripted to liberate African Americans who were going to move in next door and take their crappy jobs for lower wages.
According to historian Tyler Ansinger, only one Five Points Irisher was drafted and showed up, Hugh Boyle, 27, of 24 Mott St., who served with the 18th New York Cavalry in Gainnie Landing, Louisiana. A true maverick with an independent spirit, he refused to follow the crowd and be an agent of the federal government in occupied Texas, so he absconded back to Mott St. with his Remington.
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