The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-08-23
The American Party. aud those no abuse il.

columns leader against the American party
taking for its text a paragraph which appear
ed in the Gazette of The day before The giss Of
the article Is, that the American party is party
which encourages murder, arson, and all sorts
OF yillanies; that crime is the legitimate fruit
which it bears, and we pointed TO the ter
rible scenes recently enacted at Louisville.
and last spring at Cincinnati, as evidence of
the correctness of the allegation.
1t is not necessary that should say
TO the Commercial that our adherence of mob
law and crime Is as strong as that paper enter
talns; that we have no sympathy with the per-
petrator>, alders abettors of crime are
in any sense the apologists for men who would
tramp pie under foot the laws of the land and
the rights of the citizen; not SO big
oted IN our opposition 10 or our support of men
or parties, TO regard one party murder
ers and lncendiaries, and the other as COM
posed of saints and martyrs. We have, from
our knowledge of the scenes Of riot and blood
shed which were presented in this city last
spring. and Of the later and more terrible.
acted last week Al Louisville, failed To be con-
, vlnced, either by the grouping of statements,
or the logic of the Commercial, that the Amerl
cans Were more 10 blame than their opponents.
or that murder, arson, and piage are the ne
cesSary consequences of the American Order
We can account for these outrages satisfac
,
i born citizens of Louisville snd Cincinnati as
/ criminals of the deepest die-whose hearts
| burn with the fires of intolerance and persecu-
ton-whose appetite for human blood is un-
appeaSabie, and whose hands must be employ
ed IN throttling men. women and children,
while the darkness of the night is illumined
J with the burting rafters Of the dwellings of
the victims.
! We can see IN the American Order an hon
est and patriotic desire to rescue the country
from the evils of foreign political and eccle-
seiastical infiuence-the effects of which up
on the purity and safety of our institutions,
are regarded with apprehension. 1t may be
that the men who belong to and svmpathize
with the Order have over estimated the evil
influences which have arisen, and which are
likely to flow from the causes named If SO,
they have been guilty of no crime, unless
undue regard for the purity of the ballot box
and the best interests Of the State are crimes.
There is ce taiuly nothing bloody or devihsh
nothing murderous or rapine like in them.
t Still we are told day by day that the Ameri-
can party are incendiaries, dark lantern con-
t spirators whose works are to be traced upon
the corpses of the biackened and charred walls
of the pillaged and burned dwellings OF the
poor. Louisville and Cincinnati the Lex
= ington and the Yorktown, the first and last
: battle fields of tie Americans against liberty,
humanity and religious toleration.
How utterly absurd and incomprehensible
e do charges like these appear, when cody re
: fccted upon, and even casually investigated.
0 That more than one half of the American born
j citizens of the thirty one States of the Union
should of sudden foreswear the vital princi-
e pies of the government, and become the pro-
II pagandists of the deepest and most atrocous
! crimes known to men; and, as if the moral
nlyuOmapa n n
II in its folly and absurdity. the foreign born
ii cilizens fresh from the -bogs Of Ireland and
IL the low lands of Holland, should, be
+ come the conservators Of American liberty
e and the defenders of the faith, delivered BY
It the Fathers of the Revolution to the children
of their love, and to their posterity. through
: all generations
l. The question OF how came these riots; these
e Violations of law and order. these deaths
e these burnt DIV weliings, is yet to be answered?
q We have our views the subject and shall
IT express them. They have their birth and ori
* gin in political deceit. newspaper clap-traf
and demagogue haraneues. For years tht
IN newspapers and office seekers have been pay
~ ing court 10 the foreign votes of this country
They have been fattered, cajoled and mad,
'e puppets and tools. The perlieus of ou
at courts for days before elections have beer
$: crowded with foreigners, wishing to become
OF voters, in order that they Nigh give thei
Il sweet voices in favor Of that demagogue 70
office, who had succeeded best in fatterint
I'd their vanity or impressing them with the sin
T cerity of his friendship. This yearly inhu.
to of the foreign element in our elections, thes
en- judicial manufactures for the grinding out 0
OF voters, had for many years been regarded witt
ne apprehension by the wisest and most phlloso
d phical statesmen in the country. They di
IS not, however dare to oppose them. well know
e, ing their power 10 make and make publ
70 men.
er So it went on, year after year. until tn
al abuses of the sy stem became evident An
ID garing 10 all The evils witch the polit
g, clans and statesmen shrunk from approaching
ys the people advanced boldly up TO, and too
=, H. t-0.-.. tv.rs.ei, ts..--ss s,rvt
,ot reformatory movements. the American move
he ment sprung from the people, and not unit
: the people had demonstrated their power
Cd the elections which followed, that the polit
Dol clans began to notice il. Then began the crt
oi sade against the American movement-the
l. came denunciation and abuse. All at once
ay was discovered that the liberties Of the Anne
ort lean people were in danger; tha. civil and r.
lgious liberty were n their death throes; th
,ur a secret party of dark lantern conspirato
Ip were nightly At work, in their lodges plottir
oi treason and arson. The foreigners wer
ie. daily, from ten thousand presses and tongue
-ea warned OF their dangers-they were told tn
ad the conspiracy Of the midnight plotters WI
no particularly aimed against them. their prope
'ua ty and families. If the friends OF the Amer
ase can order disclained all intention an
- thought OF injuring any one. and denied in Il
most upequivocal and positive manner II
ON villianous charges daily uttered against the
N by priests and demagogues. they were laugl
,th ed az. They were told lha. lying part
+ a their creed and no one must believe kno
lis Nothing Thus the minds Of the foreign BOZ