Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-13

equality under our Government the merest
mockery imaginable, the ruin ans so collected
by the Journal and the red pieces of paper,
and the ''oh-oh-oh," (both of which last were
10 sight and heard all the day on the
streeu, } commenced to chase, beat and main
foreign-born persons found in the city's tho
roughfares, assailing them with short clubs
loaded with Head, stones and knives. To save
their lives thus sought by an infuriatsd mob,
the Germans and Irish, in minority of per-
haps one-tenth the number of their actual as
sailants, resorted to fire. arms.
Asfhe authorities were evidently legged
with the nurdsreis and incendiaries, being
cognizant beforehand Of the violent means to
be taken to carry ont the purposes Of the
lodges, and refraining from efforts TO arrest
the perpetratcrsoftheo utrages around the polls
the foreign-bern citizens did right in thus ss-
saying to defend their lives and those of their
wives and children wantonly and without prov.
ocation assaulted. They would have been ut
terly unworthy Of their high privilege Of Amer
lean citizenship, had they failed to defend their
lives and those Of their households unlers such
eircumstances. This viii be the Judgment of
every man of integrity, and with heart and
spirit enough in his bosom to be worthy to live
in any other condition than that Of q Greek
helot or a Roman gladiator, destined by law
to have his life made the mere sport of a bru-
tai mob. - re ~
" By-the-by, 1t will be rocollected that the
tclegraphic dispatches for a day or two groaned
with accounts of the terrible murder committed
BY villainous freshman, who was first shot
for it, then hung, cut down, HING again, and
then dragged by the heels to the jail, where
he died in the course of the night 1t turns
out that this affair was as follows, viz: An
Irishman was proceeding peaceably along the
streets when crowd of Know Nothing rufians
began first tojeer him, then to punch him with
their clubs loaded with lead, and next to beat
him. He ran for his life and was pursued by
a crowd led by two men, one named Roads, and
another named Graham. Roads fred at hin,
and killed him, and a second Irishman, who
only did his duty in going to his rescue in the
melee, fred and killed Graham. 1t was this
second man who was shot first then hung, then
cut down, and then shot again, and finally
dragged tothe Jail by the heels to die of his
wounds. b NC. - ,ala - ~ % 1.s s4F
He was the villainous, murderous Irishman
of whom the tclcgraphic agent told such sto-
ries for one or two days. ~ -
We have no space in which to-day to pursue
our comments on this dreadful and disgraceful
affair. Those who were present before Browns
Hotel on the night when Mr.. Wise was assailed
there, and at the Third and Fourth lard polls
Of this city on the day of the election win per-
ceiye that the spirit of Know Nothingism here,
is identical with that displayed by it on Mon
day last in Louisville. There, as here, pro-
fessional blacklegs, keepers and habitues of
low groggeries, bulies of houses of fame DC.
are the tools with which it delights to work.
notwithstanding the pretensions to superior
christianity of portion of its leaders.
We have heard that on one occasion it was
grsvely proposed and considered in one Of the
lodges of Washington, to take forcible pos
session of the government arsenal here, and
that on another occasion in one of the lodges
a resolution was introduced to appoint a COM
mittee to burn down the Catholic churches of
tae federal metropolis; and further, that a
functionary of the corporation of Washington
offered himself to lead the proposed committee
in this work of arson, so Enthusiastically
Know Nothingish. As matter of course this
statement will be denied by every Know
Nothing in Washington, for they are all sworn
TO make such denials when so to de will serve
The purposes of the order
We live in strange times indeed--in times
that develope the fact that we live over mines
IN the breasts of large portion of the commu.
nifty, many of whom. though protesting de-
gree Of self-righteousness, under which they
Slain more respect for themselves as Christians
han the twelve Apostles asked at the hands of
those by whom they were surrounded, counter
ance the preparation of murder and arson,
and the entire subversion of society by their
,hosen instruments, as q convenient way of
carrying elections when they do not happen to
be strong enough to out-yote their opponents
There is, indeed, food for earnest reflection in
all this E1IfgE
James L. 0rr.-It seems to be taken for
granted that this gentlema will be the next
Democratic nominee for Speaker Of the House
Of Representatives. The fact has been brought
70 the attention of the public at this time
through the newspaper comments on the i'm
mense complimentary dinner or festival which
was given to him very recently at Anderson
s. G, whereat he delivered
speech marked by his usual ability, sagacity,
and party fealty. This celebration iseyidence
that he has already lived down the prejudice
which, for some years, has existed against
him in the minds of the very ultra-Southern
politicians of his State, which grew out of his
evident disposition to be, more national and
more conciliatory towards his political friends
out Of the State than has been fashionable in
South Carolina for nearly a quarter of q CEN
fury Had one more ballot been taken in the
which f1an \