Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-15
.Ireland an Aceldama Field Of
Blood pho. L.
tAe American Organ ;


TO The Editor Of the american Organ
DEAR Sin; The cruel and bloody scenes Of the
Louisville riots are still the labored themes OF
the anti-American press, which industriously en-
large upon the fearful pictures of their own de-
structiye work, and excite into busy activity the
creative genius of their versatile maginations, in
the desperate but uitless endeavor to transfer the
merited obloquy attending the bloody fruits OF
their reckless demagoguery to the door Of the
American party. Even the Washington Union
has not yet exhausted its extraordinary fertility
of mendacity and meanness, in its malignant mis-
Representations Of those Americans who presump-
tuously dared to defend their lives from the pre-
meditated murderous assaults Of brutal foreign
ruffians nor yet It's shameless yndcation ofthose
ruffians' lawless and bloody acts but the Boston
Pilot, professed religious journal, edited by an
Irish foreigner Of Roman Catholic faith, and con-
seouently most ilberal and niendacious, excels in
its vulgar vituperation of the American party,
the Protestant faith, and its vindctive denuncia-
ton of the ignorant and brutal character Of the
American people. The leading article Of one Of
its issues contains the following characteristic,
mean, and injurious falsehoods:
Louisville has earned an infamous name It
was bad enough in consequence of the Matt Ward
affair Several influential papers remark that these
scenes Of riot and blood-shed were no more than
was to be expected from Louisville. Rioters 20
unpublished, and burglars and murderers go un-
hanged-nay, they are rewarded for their crimes,
while peaceable and noffensive citizens are shot
down. A midnight gang Of conspirators, called
KNOWN othngs, take possession of the polls, take
possession Of the city, and make previous arrange
ments to prevent a certain class of citizens from
exercising their rights They deliberately lay plans
for stirring up riot and they count securely upon
the murder Of some score of their opponents, and
upon the destruction of their property-upon the
burning OF churches and such like trifes and upon
escaping the punishment due to their crimes |!
They succeeded in all their plans with the excep-
ton Of the Understanding"
"The unspeakable meanness Of the riotous Know
Nothings, is exemplfed in the after doings of this
Louisville] Joarndl-man, who, having stirred up
the riot, wipes his bloody chops and says: 0! what
have done? Has there been riot Oh, dear |!
oh, dear Hon did 1t happen? 1t must have
been those damned Irishmen They are always
making mischief We only defended our own
rights Are only twelve Irishmen killed2 No
churches burnedY Well, we hope that justice will
be done. Let an impartial investigation be had.
Let the guilty men suffer
Prentice knows well enough who the jurymen
win be, If the call for Justice be from the family Of
a murdered adopted citizen against Know-Noth-
ing American murderer Know Nothing jury
order. They must be perjurers to society and the
State Like Prentice they will wipe their bloody
chops, and answer, what lave we done? The for
signers were rightly served.
1.-THE miserable rascals viii 20 down to posteri-
ty as gang Of peJures, rioters, burglars, house
burners, and murderers; as q gang Of naidnigkt
cof,spirators more depicadie than any gang that
euer dis0raced fipilifsd land. There is no place
in which the hypocrtical scoundrels are not ready
to do what they did in Louisville"
Such are the Roman Christian-like statements
and charges Of this partial and bgoted foreigner
Their glaring and mischievous unairness is mani
fest upon their face The judicial testimony, even
Of those Of his own creed and nation, demonstrate
the existence of Irish Catholic conspiracy some
time previous to the election But that, and all
other testimony tending to prove hostile inten-
tention and preparation on the part Of those for
eigners, he either does not notice, or ignores in
one sweeping denpncistaB of falsehood This,
too is identical in policy with the administration
through its organs! There is, happily, however,
even If there were no Judicial proofs of the for
eigners guilt an infallible means Of otherwise de-
termining who, and who only, could have been the
poters. tha "secret midnight plptters,n Of assas-
sination upon that occasion In the broad and we'll
defined differences Of the characters of the races
implicated Has the Washington Union or Bos-
ton Pilot ever contemplated those transactions
with the aid of such lights? Have they ever pyo-
pounded 10 their magnanimous and patriotic souls
the candid inquiries, whether TO plot and execute
such demon-like slaughter were not wholly alien to
the American character, while were they not per-
fectly in keeping with the treacherous ferocious,
and murderous natures of the Roman Catholic
Irish, and exemplifed upon almost every page of
their written history Ii is impossible that they
have not; and il Is equally impossible that their
real sentiments do not entirely exoulpate the
American party from the unnatural charges and
imputations of crime with which they both have
so UNANIMOUSLY impugned Its character and endsl
But both desgnedly suppress their honest con-
vctons partly from the inherent malignity of their
natures, and partly in the one party, from slavsh
submission to the despotio policy of bis papal
majesty, and, in the other, from an equally infa-
nous slavery TO an unconquerable lust Of spos
and place They must not, however, be allowed
toescape withouta thorough exposure 10 the Ameri-
can public Of their unparalleled atrocity In syste-
matcally attributing to natives those crimes which
their reckless demagoguery have excited their
ignorant and brutal foreign allies to perpetrate |
This can be no better done than In showing, by a
reference 10 history, that the most demon like
qualities have ever distinguished the degraded
natures OF their principal CONFERENCE.-The papal
Irish and that the murderous exhibitions OF the
louisville riots" are but miniature and mild ex-
amples of their bloody achievements in the ould
counthryl"
This purpose TO do in the succeeding articles
Of this series, in which the truly dangerous
character Of the Irish papist win be unsparingly
exposed, and how under his sanguinary dominion
and whitening influence, Ireland has ever been, and
america wouid be an aceidama, feel I of bioodf'
Sincerely yours, &c, w. +. N.
We make some extracts from an article in the
Indianapolis Republican, plainly showing the cause