The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-08-10
From the Louisville Journal Of the sth.
The Louisville Riots.

We have taken pains to ascertain the correct
version OF the riots on Monday. We have con-
Versed with a number OF persons who were wit
nesscs of the beginning of the affrays in both the
First and Eighth wards. We have been well assu-
| red that those scenes of violence altogether
disconnected with the election, and that all this
boodshed and destruction of life and property were
| occasoned in every instance by unprOvOked and
murdorous assaults Of foreigners upon native-born
citizens In every instance where death has Oc-
Cured or blood has been split Americans were first
fired upon and cut, stabbed or beaten by for
| eigners.
There is very strong ground for belief that these
| attacks were not Oscasioned by anything that hap
| pened on Monday, but that all the arrangements
were made for them several Days before hand-that
they were premedtated and precOncerted. From
| several sources we have been informed that the
| Catholic Irish in the neghborhood of Quinn's
houses, on Main street, had arranged for, and
! tempated an attack upon the American procession
on Saturday night, and were induced to defer the
execution Of their murderous designs only by their
fears excited by the immense aud unexpected num-
Der and character Of those who composed the pro.
cession. Two Of the Irish women living in that
ncighborhood have admitted that they were cogni-
zant of this design gentleman informs us that
on Monday he warned by German friend, a
gunsmith, not TO approach the portion of Main st.
between Tenth and Twelfth SITS during that day. as
he had within the previous ten days, cleaned and
put in order quite two hundred guns for the Irish.
men living in that neighborhoOd. We have been
told that there were several Irshmen engaged in
the riot who did not belong to the city, but had
been summoned here for the especial purpose Of
aiding their countrymen in the Outrages contem-
plated by them on Sunday night and actually per-
petrated on Monday afternoon. Ii has also been
ascertained beyond any doubt, that there was
large quantity of arms and ammunition contained
in the houses of Quinn, which were destroyed -
We have also been informed that threats had been
made by Catholic Germans in the First ward that
they would kin any German who should dare to
vote the American ticket on Monday aud we learn
IRON the statement OF one OF the men who were
wounded upon Shelby street, that this threat in
one instance at least, was actually carried into
effect on Monday afternoon. We also know. that
in consequence of these threats and of information
that those who had uttered them had assembled
together, fully aimed and bent upon the execution
OF their bloody purpose, number Of respectable,
orderly Germans who voted the American ticket
actually afraid TO go to their homes, and did
not 90 there until yesterday For more than a
week past we have received limitations from differ
ent sources, that there in the First ward an or.
gained force of Sag NIGHTS, and that every effort
was intended to be made by the leaders Of the anti.
American party induce the foreigners in this city
to effect by force what they might not be able TO
do by peaceaby and quietly depOsiting their votes
For weeks before the day of election most outrage
GUS nhammatoTy and incendiary appeals had been
made to them in the speeches Of their party dema.
gogues and through their party press. They had
been induced 10 believe, what is not true that the
American party sought 10 take away or interfere
with some OF their vested rights. They were thus
wrought upon, and their most violent and basest
passions infamed almost 20 madness, until murder
aud crime the consequences. Even IL il were
not true, that las many believe and not unreasou-
ablyl these foreigners instigated 10 and abet-
ted in these acts Of violence by Others who not
now known, but who ought TO have had more sense
aud PATRIOTISM stIl enough has been said and done
BY the leaders aud domagogues OF the Sag NIGHTS
party TO attach 10 them great part OF the blanc
or these lameLtable and dsgracelul riots. We hope
The investigations of the Coroner NAV bring 20 light
III the facts and and the antecedents Of these
occurrences in order that the terrible responsibility
Of having melted these acts OF violence may rest
where Il properly belongs, and that public eondem-
nation may fall upon the heads OF the really guilty.
IL Is certainly true that the election was passing
on without more violence or disturbance than al
most invariably attended the elections in which the
old political parties wers Contestants The election
bad proceeded thus quietly until between aud
o'clock In the First wH-d and until nearly O'Clock
10 the Eighth ward, The voting had slaekened-
There was al THAI time 40 difficulty for any one 70
gain admission 10 the polls. The foreigners who
had commenced the firing from the windows and
behind gateways and fences we're ialy armed and
acted la concert, while the Americans we're UMPIRE.
pared and unsuspicioas Of any attack. They were
unarmed aud were Obliged 70 90 20 their homes 10
arm themselves ia order to defend themselves
from this indiscriminate slaughter. There Is indeed
not shadow Of doabt that there would not have
been any bloodshed or murders, or house burnings,
Or riots, II il had not been for the wholesale aud
killing and wounding Of unofendng