The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-08-16
The Louisville Riots.

The following we clip from the Loaisvia.
Journal Of yesterday:
The Anti American party and its organs
are vainly attempting By baselsss and impa.
dent assertions vioien, denuncisnons. Ard
palpable misrepresentation and perversioss
Of facts to shift the stigma of the authorship
of these 6isgraceful occurrences from thsi,
own party 10 ours We will not At present.
attempt to point out and relate singly the manv
glsring inaccuracies and misla,ements eon-
tanned IN the notices Of these riots published
in the Sag NIGHT papers.
We viii, IN due time. present the sworn
statements of respectable men and woman,
who witnessed the whole affair, from the CON.
mencement TO the end. both in the FRS, aas
Eighth Wards. We viii then abundanay
show. not only that no violence was perpetrs.
ted by Americans. except In retaliation bran
unprovoked and cold -blooded hatchery Of
their countryms BY foreigners, eongrega:ei
in large numbers, armed with guns and pistols
and bludg,eons and by other foreigners. shoot
ing from out of doorwsys and ga,eways. and
from windows, and behind walls and fences.
upon uususpecting Americans. passing upon
the public streets. bat that no sufficient provo
cation or excuse had been given by Amer.
cans. in any portion of the city. for any OF the
outragses which were committed by the Irish
and Germans, and which really began and
produced the riotous excuses which We SO
much deplore.
We know tina, the election was proceeding
quietly evervw here-ihat, in order 10 avoid
even the impu,a,ion of any unfairness or i'm
propriety, which they expected would be "a,
gerry caught at by their INSCRIPTIONS oppo-
nents 10 account for the glorious victory which
friends were confident of winning, the
Americans, in their respective councils, had
determined 10 keep order and peace and quis,
at the polls. This they did. II is true that
believing there would not be time to poll full
vote in some of the wards. they made use Of
every fair means TO set IN American votes
with all possible despatch; but we deny tia.
anv unusual obstruction was offered, or al.
tempted TO be offered. to any legal and order
" behaved voter
A, the time that the fact was proclaimedM
the polls that their countrymen had withou,
provocation been shot down, murdered ia
; cold blood. by ferocious foreigners. in disian,
and quiet streets of the city. the Americans
in the neighborhood of the several voting
places At first refused to believe that such out.
RACES had been committed. and consideredit
q ruse to draw them away from the polls and
TO give an opportunity to the Sag Nicht forces
to take possession of the polls and prevea.
> Americans from voting.
1t WAS only when the wounded and the
dead of their fellow countrymen were brought
before them. and they were convinced that
cowardly and bloody murders had been per-
petrated, that with cries of vengeance upon
the murderers. they sought them out and
{ hunted them into the houses that were des
poiled or destroyed. Until this shootingwY
= begun by the foreigners, the Americans were
= generally unarmed, while in both the First
and Eighth Wards the foreigners, both the
= Germans and the Irish, acted in concert. and
J were armed to the teeth with firearms prepar
ed several days before.
When the fracas commenced. the Amer
cans were obliged to go to their homes or to
= the Court House to procure arms, and 70 the
= shops TO buy arms and ammunition to repelths
: attacks made upon them. and to avenge the IN
J nocent American blood that had been shed
!, Up to this time they had been victorious IL
70 the election, they were in good humor viii
every one. and were rejoicing at having rsA.
"a IAeu's".,. -~-.A--.l-r-. y victory without any
- disorder or breaches of the peace.
IS That grave outrages and henious wrongs
S. were perpetrated by Americans, when they
is took the law in their own hands, and sough.
to punish the murderers of their countrymeu
% and avenge those who had been killed and
s. wounded without provocation, no one viii De.
70 ny; but It Is useless for the organs of the amt
D. American party to seek any longer to concesl
the fact that those outrages were commenced
by the foreign population; that the frs, wrongs
7. committed ~ foreigners: tina. the first mur-
ders perpetrated were perpesrated by for
; eigners.
:. That these foreigners were maddened and
excited and instigated to these deeds Of vp-
lence by the insdious, incendiary appeals d
I the organs of the foreign party and the dsm,-
e gogues and leaders who have for weeks past
1t been seeking to arouse the passions ard prep
: dices Of this class of citizens against Amen.
s cans. can scarcely for a moment be doubled
g That these attacks upon Americans were pre-.
{ meditated and done by concert and agreemen;
e among the perpetrators can be and will bees
II tablishcd.
d An intelligent public will not, when ,hes
II facts are known, attribute these riots to the
Il American party, but, N spite Of al
i protestatons of lamb-like innocence and 81
| attempts to misrepresen. facts, the responsible
0 ty and the blame will be surely and Justly
brought home TO its real authors, the incend
. airy demagogues Of the foreign. an,i-Amsn-
can party.
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