The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-16
The Louisville Riots !!
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great adherence, of such things; nor
can we find space in which to say what
we would wish to say upon this subject.
terrible responsibility rests upon those
who have ncited the foreign population
Of the city 10 the deeds Of violence which
were the commencement Of the riots in
the First and Eighth Wards. We are
confident that these riots were not occa-
stoned by anything that happened at any
Of the several voting places. The cleo
ton throughout the city, as far as we can
learn, had passed off with unusual quiet,
with the exception Of brutal outrage in
the First ward, Of which we shall speak
and some fighting at the eighth
ward polls, in which no one was hurt
The riots Oere occaSioned by iadiscrjmin-
ale ANT mHrderOuS assaults committed By
foreigners, chiefly Irish, upon inqGeasiUe
citizens, PeaccaJy attending 10 their owa
business, at some distance from any Of
lie rottng places. All the circumstances
connected with these assaults strongly
indicate that they were ptemeditatcd and
insti gated by other parties than those by
whom they were actually committed
We are not now prepared toS say that they
were the consequences only of the incen-
diary appeals, Tor some time past, pub.
licly made TO our foreign population by
some OF the leaders Of the Anti. .Ameri.
can party, or that they were insligated by
direct instructions Of men with fiendlSh
hearts who control in a great measure
the passions, and are able TO dictate ac.
tions to the Germans and Irish who made
these attacks. All the facts will proba.
bly, be ascertained judiciaIly, and then
the responsibility will rest where it prop.
erly belongs. The circumstances as de.
tailed TO us, and the confessions Of some
OF the miserable wretches who were
made the victims Of their insane folly and
murderouS violence, show that these as.
saus upon unoGending and innocent and
nalive.born citizens were premeditated, &,
and that the blame attaches to others who
are as yet unnamed.
We have not now time TO give details.
We assert however and are sure that it
will be proved by respectable Witnesses,
that every act of bloodshed was begun
by foreigners. That in every instance
where mortal violence ensued, the begin
ming of the riots was an unprovoked
slaughter by foreigners of peaceable
Americans while quietly passing in the
streets at distance from the polls. This
iniuriated the popuace, and a prompt
and terrible resort 10 mob violence by
which many foreigners were killed and
much property destroyed was the conse.
quence, In the First ward about 9
O'Clock in the morning, while the eleo.
ton was proceeding quietly at the polls,
Mr.. George Burge, respectable, and
quiet American citizen was brutally as.
SauIled by party of IriShmen on Jack.
son Street, between Jefferson and Greene.
without having given any provoc alton, he
was knocked down and horribly beaten
with stones and clubs He attempted to
escape from the fends by whom he was
attacked and ran into the alley Of an ad.
joining house. where he was followed by
his blood thirsty assailants, and cut, stab
in Jail by the Mayor and City Marshall
In the afternoon between three and
four o'clock, several Americans were
fired upon and wounded while quietly
riding or walking by the German brew.
cry, on Jefferson street, near the Bear
grass bridge. Among these were some
gentlemen from Jefferson county, and
several respectable citizens. One gen
tlcman who was fired at was riding in Il
buggy with his wife by his side. About
the same time a perfect shower Of bul.
lets were rained upon every American
passer-by from the windows Of some
houses occupied by some Germans upon
Shelby street, in the neighborhood of
Madison street.
AS soon as these occurrences were
made known ii was acccrtained that large
bodies of foreigners. armed with shot
guns and rifles, had assembled in the
neighborhood Of the brewery. and also
on Shelby street. An indiscriminate
slaughter of American citizens was ap.
pretended. An immense crowd of mad
dened, Americans assembled, they were
fired at from the windows of the brewery
and the houses on Shelby street, and in
seeking to arrest these offenders, several
were badly wounded, and the incensed
and infuriated mob burned the brewery
and ransacked the houses from which the
shots were fired.
In the 9th ward, the most serious dis
turbance took place about o'clock in the
afternoon. A Mr. Rhodes. in company
with two friends, all American citizens,
was quietly passing upon Main street,
near Chapel when they were set upon by
a party of ten Irishmcn, who with horn
BILE oaths swore they would clean the
streets Of every American. Fifteen shots
were fred upon them. Rhodes was kill
ed, and both his companions badly woun-
ded, one of them seriously. The Irish
men ran up Chapel street, and on being
pursued, took refuge in house at the
corner of Chapel and Market streets.
whence several shots were fired by the
inmates, by which several American citi.
zcns were wounded and two were killed
n Mr.. Graham and Mr. Hobson. The
firing from this house continued some half
hour. The Irish were armed to the teeth
with fire arms of every description, while