The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-08-18
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ing, as kind of "summing up'' of evidence
and articles on the Louisville riots. We
shall not trespass on their patience further.
The following is from the Louisville Journal.
Numerous affidavits and certificates in re-
laton to the riots of the 9th inst, have now
been laid before our readers. Numerous
others of the same character are in our pos
session, but we see nc. necessity for our max;
ing use Of them. The proof is abundant. Il |
satisfies every rational mind. If has acc6-
mulated until it is overwhem lining. Any man
who reads it and still prelends 10 think that
the disturbances on Monday of last week |
were not the especial work of the foreign |
born population must be either hopelessy
dishonest or incuraby insane. His mind
must be as impervuus to the light of evidence
as block of wood is to the rays of the sun.
No man could have observed the manifes-
taons of the feelings of the American and
the Anti-American parties for some months
past without seeing and understanding at
| once which of the two was most likely to-
create violent disturbances on the day of the
election. All along the contrast between
the two parties has been most striking. The
malgnity OF the Sag NIGHTS or anti-Ameri-
cans against the Americans has been open
load, bitter and ferocous. Probably never
/
ed, has there been any other party that SO
villifed and illuminated and cursed and in
suited its po itcal opponents in newspapers,
in public speeches, and in the private inter-
| course of society, as the anti American party
has habItually done. Members of that party,
even in their daily communion with gentle
men, have not been able or have not been
willing to repress, for good manners sake,
the feelings OF wrath and vengeance raging
in their souls On the contrery, the mem
bers of the American party have been calm,
and smiling and good humored and courteous
rarely losing iher tempers, never seeking to
obtrude their opinions upon others, and too
often perhaps submitting to INDIGENOUS Ian
guage WEIGH they knew TO be aimed at them
by their opponents. Now we repeat that o
, rational person can have observed this re-
markable contrast between the parties as oil
must have observed it,, without deep aud
inevitable conviction, that if a violent cUlIi-
| sion on the day OF the election was to tane
place, the anti. A american party must be the
one from which 1t oud CO.. e.
And, if there is virtue in human evidence,
) il faith is TO be reposed in the sworn testi-
: mory Gi men and women, if the solemn as
sertions and oaths of numerous respectable
witnesses are not lie, the riots did originate
with the AntiAmerican party and were as
: much preconcerled and determined on by
f that party as ever battle was by com
maudng General. OF course some little
crowding and few fst-fghts, which always
{ take place here on election days, were fore
J. known by both pasties; but the Germans and
I the Irish, acting no d. uot at the nstigation
a of unprncipled and tiend-lke native born
trail ors and ;ncendiaries; prepared themselves
with scores ahd hundreds of firearms not to
! make or resist aggression at the polls but to
n shoot down American citizens lrott barrie
. AIDED houses a; points remote from the places
of voting. The few difficulties at the polls
= mounted to little or nothing. They were
l. absolutely nothing in comparison with what
n had occurred on previous occasions of a sim-
n liar character. More is said by the nti-
! Americans about the Disturbances at the
: Sixth ward polls than at any other, and we
/ do not doubt, that, in some instances, the
Americans there were wrong, yet d pr6mi-
nent gentleman of that ward who voted the
Anti-American ticket, and who has been
highly compliGhented by one of the Anti
American papers for his efforts TO preserve
the peace there, informs us, that the first vio-
lence, so far as he knows, was blow given
by an frishman to an American for quietly
+ cha llengng his right to vote.
/. Passing over however all such comparative
Y trles as the usual crowdings; elbowlngs, and
i. blows at the polls IN warmly onte 81 ed
election, matters wrong In themselves, bu
> never considered Justification or even a
ID ptovocation of blood, we must beg leave tC
e concentrate public attention upon the one
great and important iect, fact established
= as cohclusvely any TACT on earth was ever
established, that up TO the moment when
~ the German shoOtings from the hohses iI
l. the upper ward and the Irish shootings in the
81, ..,I. -
n the discharges took place, were as quiet a;
\ any street in the city is at this moment. Al
IL time when there were no fghtings oil
rs wranglings or disputes in the street, when
- there was not the slightest apparent symp-
N tom of Disturbance or even Of excitement
when men and women were passing TO and
- fro, as upon ordinary occasions, without the
ed least suspicion OF danger, destructive for
lie eign fire was opened from the houses upoT
D. unoffending native citizens. That the st .eet
-, were thus quiet in the upper part of the city
70 when the deadly fire first resounded from thu
e Germans houses and in the lower part OF tht
j. city when it first resounded from the Irisi
he houses is shown by the affidavits already
- given and can be established by score o
others if necessary. In each extremity o
&c the city, the flash and the roar of firearms
n was like burst from an unseen cloud ami,
at the hush of the elements. Any allegation
l. that all this was done without premeditation
y, without any concerted plan, and that it wa
:, done simply because the foreigners, at polls
III remote from the points of deadly assault
tie could not vote fast enough, is too absurd :,
lie impose upon any man worthy OF notice.
rs In the upper part of the city, at eas
twenty men and one little boy, as we hav
already stated and proved, we're shot in tn
Id peaceful streets and were weltering in thei
ul blood before solitary weapon was raise
n against the perpetrators of the carnage; and
. In the lower nart of the civ two men yRerl