Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-30
The Foreignerg Ct Louisville.

The German population of Louisville have
nearly all abandoned it. They have encamp- /
ed on the Bardstown road. That encamP-
ment is a Sorrowful one. Init are they VINO
mourn the deaths of fathers, brothers, wives,
sons and daughters; and who dare not so
back TO the city TO gather up and bury the
charred and blackencd remains OF their
| slauohtcred kindred Women are there who,
in the AGONY of premature childbirth, scream
aloud the names of murdered husbands, and /
expiring wonder If this be hOspitable Amer /
ical Strong men, weak women, feeble chill |
dren. mourn the loss of all those little arti- !
cles, Of no great intrinsic value, but precious
as the memorials of other and happier days. |
Wives weep over the loss of gifts received |
at parting from aged parents III fatherlard, |
and wondering think how cruel to tear from
their little receptacles the humble relics of
the poor. Alas, for them there Is no restora-
ton. Alas, TO them the fond husband, do
ting father, protecting brother, will return no
more Their murdered bodies are piled in
the streets Of Louisville, fit monuments OF
the bloody triumph of fierce, unrelenting IN
tolerance. An intolerance that in the pursuit
of its end knows no respect for law sex, age
or condition. The Germans of Louisville
were not asked whether they were Catholics
or not. They were shot down without cues
ton and burned alive without time being Civ
Ell to extricate women and children, sick or
diving. Ii was n war Of determination; in
> which to be sure of death was to have been
: born on foreign SOIL No mercy, no spar
r ing cry, no sympathy for wounded, no quar-
ter given This is the fate which Know
Nothingism extends to the foreign born cit
izen.
- Ill 4loca orftt
ates to come hither Here, upon the broad
prairies of Illinois, these widows may rear,
upon a generous soil, their fatherless children.
Here in Illinois those children may grow up
honored and respected and in the hospitable
Offices of kind neighbors may find a partial
oblivion for the untimely, ruthless fate Of then
"a ancestors Let the fugitives come hither.-
Let the artizan, the laborer and mechanic
come to Chicago. In this great city, in thi:
n great metropolis of the commercial west, they
)y will find arms extended to welcome them
nc and hands prepared to assist them. Let then
III come hither, and each little family will fine
freehold and habitation that they can oc
'o cupy till such time as their honest industr!
81 can enable them to spare Its cost.
his TO the Germans, exiled from their har'
of earned homes in Louisville, we say come t
=. Chicago Here you will find property offere
." you on your own terms, which property, with
no out any exertion on your part, will advanc
be in value ten fold Its present estimate, in les
er time than You may toll in Louisville to re
or build your burnt dwellings.
The Irish and other European citizens al
abandoning Louisville for Indiana, where the
he will find hospitable homes. To all the SUI
&C. viving victims of this last exhibition of into
or erance, we say come to the west. Come
r this State, or to those, not less productiv
y, ones, west of the Mississippi. There al
nd fields here which have not felt the plough
ifi- share, nor the spade, yet which, under yo'
,rv hands, can produce food for millions Con
lar to the gallant west, where freedom is as e,
- pansive as the prairie, and as generous as I'll
the soil. Come to the west, and let the goldC
but grain you raise be sent back to feed the mt
its whose ruthless hands would, as did those
of Cain of old, strike down the toiling tiller
the soil. Come to the west, and with Il
US labor of your hands and the sweat of yo
rat brow, produce from what is now unclaim
sa- waste, wealth and power that will shan
,ar the sordid, selfish hearts that have denied "
homo, and forbid you leave to inter yo
murdered kindred.
ave Come to the west, and mid the sweet flo
ical ers and bright haryests of our gardens, fore
the bloody, 9naStly streets OF tnat cruel CT
Come to the west, and in her wholcsor
springs, her pure rivers and bright bro
PIC lakes, forget the filthy kennels and dir
sed- pools red with blood, and gorged with t
bodies of your numbered friends. Come
mere the west, and in her forests and her quarr
-, find habitations that would shame the bio
Pr spattered palaces of the shameful men, w
al destroyed humble cots. Come to the we
the and ON our broad acres, testify by your dec
able that in the creation Ofyour God, there breath
no superior to the free born laborer Come
the west, and find that, after life well spe
,7al in virtuous toll, you can command all II
NE obedience troops of friends Come to t
arKs west, and when you die you can do so kno
!. ing that upon your own soil you will H
3. that decent sculpture, which was denied yC
d at friends who persisted in the flames in II
600 proud city. Come to the west, and kn'
resi- that your requiem will be songs of the f.
ice thered forest choirs, and not the brutal Y
olu- lings of an infuriate mob. Come to the we
q of and upon our soil stand erect III the dign
de- uf your manhood, and thank that Provider
v in which has led you away from the city
and strife, to land where, in peaceful indepe
ing dence, you may live the life and die
nd death of freeman.-C Chicago Times.
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