The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-11-03
New York, Oct. 81.


"YoUNa AMERICANS ATTAcKED.-A pro-
cession of Young Americans" who had been
holding political mass meeting in the Bow
cry, last evening" while on its way home, was
attacked by party of Irishmen and broken up.
The assailants were armed with pistols, knives,
stones, clubs, &c. Several persons were in
jured, and the American banners seized and
destroyed.
Now just suppose for moment, that while
band of Irishmen or Germans were walking
along public streets in procession, gang of
know Nothings' should fall upon them,
break up their procession, injure innocent men,
seize this PROFESSIONS banners and destroy
them. How the country would ring with the
'infamous outrage How the anti-Amercan
sheets from Maine to Georgia, would burn and
fume and rear and charge, at the riotous acts
of "Know Nothing assassins'' and scoundrels !
Those who have unfortunately been in the
habit of reading these sheets, may probably be
able to imagine the froth and fury which would
characterize the anti-American press on such
an occasion, but no pen or tongue is able to
describe it. Yet here is hand of americans
attacked, bruised and beaten, and the Ameri-
can flag taken from their hands and destroyed,
by horde of ignorant drunken Irishmen,
doubtless instigated to the act by anti-Ameri-
can Old Line demagogues-and who for a mo-
ment supposes the nti-American press will
offer word of rebuke for the outrage?
Now have not things come to deplorable
pass in this country when from a large por-
ton of the public press, the native born Amer
lean can obtain no justice, when an ignorant
foreigner is thrown in the opposite scale-when
this press can see no good nor virtue in an Amer
lean born citizen and no harm nor vice in for
eign born man-when the basest outrages even
to the trampling of the American flag in the
dust, and the striking down of those who re-
sist, receive no rebuke from this press, while
the simplest acts of native born Americans in
the defence of their own lives or rights, are
stigmatized with the wickedest words in the
English language! Is it not time, under such
condition of things, for Americans to unite
to put down these internal demagogues, and to
protect their own rights and the purity of the
institutions under which they live? That time
has come. A great American party has been
formed with these objects as the prominent
features of their organization. They have al
ready accomplished much good, and even il
the party were to die to-day, its good effects
would live. 1t has already set Americans to
thinking for themselves, and in many parts Of
the country to acting for themselves. 1t has
taught demagogues, in certain quarters at least
that there are some other classes of citizens to
be considered beside those of foreign birth, and
that Americans will no longer patiently sub
NIT to the elevation of foreigners above their
heads. This party is determined to preserve
their country and its institutions against the
wiles of foreign influence at home and abroad
and from the hands of those vile demagogue!
who have placed party, and selfish interests in
connection with party, above country. The
party is founded upon patriotism, and it viii
live or die according to the amount of true
patriotism there is still left in the country.