Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1855-09-01
From the Chicago Daily Times
The Foreigners of LoujsviI.


The German population ofLouisville have
nearly all abandoned it. They have en-
camped gu: OH the Bardstown road That
encampment is sorrow full ono. In il are
they who mourn the deaths of fathers,
brothers, wives, sons, and daugters; and
who dare not &. back to the city to gath
err up and bury the charred and blackened
remains of their slaughtered kindred
Woman are there; who, in the agony OF
premature Childbirth, scream aloud the
names OF murdered husbands, and expl-
ring, wonder if this be hospitable Ameri-
ca! Strong men, weak woman, feeble
children mourn the loss Of all those little
articles, of no great intrinsic value, but
precious as the memorials Of other and hap
pier days.
Wives weep over the loss of gifts re
ceIved at Hparting from aged parents in
fatherland, and, wondering, think how
cruel TO tear from their little recepiscles
the humble relics Of the poor. Alas for
them there is no restoration. Alasl to
them the fond husband, doiing 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 uprelen,ing in
Itolerance-an Intolerance that, in the per-
suit of its end knows no respect for law sex,
age, or condition. The Germans Of Louis
vile were not asked whether they were
Catholics or not. They We're shot down
without question and burned alive without
time being given to extricate woman and
children, sick OF dying. It was war of
determinations, in which to be sure of
death was to have been born on foreign
soil. No mercy, no sparing cry, no sym
pathy for the wounded, no quarter given!
This is the fate which ACKNOWLEDGMENT
extends to the foreign born citizen.
The people Of the West bid these IN
fortunates come hither. Here, upon the
broad prairies. Of Illinois. these widows
may rear, upon generous soil, their faith
erIess children. Here, in Illinois, those
children may grow up honered and respec-
ted, and in the hospitable Offices of kind
neighbors may find partial obliyian for
the untimely, ruthless fate OF their ances-
tors. Let the fugitive come hilher. Let
The artlzan, the ]aborer. and the mechanic
come to Chicago. In this great city, in
this great metropolis of the commerce al
West, they will find arms extended to
welcome them, and hands prepared 20 as.
sist them. Let them come hlther, and
each little family will find freehold and
a habitation that they can occupy till such
time as their honest industry can enable
them to spare its cost.
To the germans, exiled from their
hard-earned homes in Louisville, we say
come to Chicago. Here you will fluid
property offered you on your Owl terms,
which property, without any exer,ion on
your part, will advance in value ten-fold
its present estimate IN less time than you
may toll in Louisville TO rebuild your burnt
dwellings.
The IRISH and other European citizens
are abandoning Louisville for indiana.
where they will find hospitable homes
| To all the surviving victims of this last ex-
hibltation Of intolerance we say come to
The West. Come TO this State, or TO those
not leis productive ones west ofthe Missis.
sippi. There are fields here which have
ye, not felt the ploughshare nor the spade,
which, under you: hands, can produce
food for millions. Come to the gallant
West. where freedom is as expansive as
| the prairie and as generous as the SOIL
Come to the West, and let the golden
grain ou raise be sent back to feed the
| men whose ruthless hands would, as did
those of Cain of old, strike down the toll
ing tiler of the soil. Come to the West
and with the labor of your hands, s,and by
the sweat Of your brow, produce from
what is now an unclaimed waste wealth
and power that will shame the sordid, sell
fish hearts that have deued you home
and forbid you leave to inter your mur-
dered kindred.
Come to the West. and mid the sweet
flowers aud bright harvests Of our gardens
forget the bloody, ghas,ly streets of that
cruel city. Come to ths West, and III her
wholesome springs, her pure rivers and
| bright. broad lakes, forget the filthy ken
nels and dirty pools red with the blood
and gorged with the bodies of yohr muir
derrd friends. Come to the West, and III
| her forests and her quarries and habitations
that would shame the blood-spa,tered pail
aces of the shameful men who destroyed
your humble cots. Come to the West
aud on our broad acres testify, by your
deeds that in the creation OF your God
tHCiC oiCa'HSS nv ooP S'ioi " thC HSC' oo'H
free laborer. Come to the West, and find
that. after g. life well spent in virtuons toll
you can command all that should accom-
pAny old age. eas honor, love, obedience.
troops Of friends Come to the Vest,
and when you die, you can do so knowing
that upon your own soil you will find that
decent sepulture which was denied your
friends who persisted in the flames in that
proud city. Come to The West, and know
that your requiem will be songs of the
fealheIed forest choirs, and not the brutal
ceilings Of an infuriaie mob. Come tothe
West, and upon our soil stand erect in the
dignity o: your manhood, and thank that
Providence which has led you away fsom
the city Of strife TO land where, in peact-
full independence you may live the the life
and die the death Of freeman!
Capital OF Kansas Territory.