The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-08-13

nal. We hope every man who feels an
interest in its subject will read the article
The editor of the Journal is preparing to
proUe every statement he has made by the
slrorn testimony of men and women who
were witnesses of the commensurate of the
riots. The lying assertions OF the anti
American press will be refuted by sworn evil
dence which would be good in any court of
justice:
The CASE STATED.-With shameless eff
from terry, and in the face of undeniable facts,
the anti American newspapers of this city
are striving industriously to ward off from
their party the odious responsibility of hav-
ing caused the disgrace!ul riots and horrid
butcheries of Monday. A deep, dark, and
damning stain has furnished the hitherto
bright escutcheon of Louisville. The heart
of every good citizen sickens at the contem-
platon of the terrible excuses which have
been committed. The blame however should
and will attach itself to those who drew the
first blood, who committed the first acts of
lawless violence Ito those who gave the
first mortal provocation. which brought upon
the offenders a terrible, an excessive retalia-
ton and retribution. OF these offences the
fearlessly stand up before the community,
whose peace has been thus ruthlessly de-
stroyed, and say, with conscientious truth,
"Shake not thy CORY locks at me! Thou
canst not say did it,
We do not for one moment attempt to ex-
cuse or even to palllate the enormty of the
outrages committed on the afternoon and
night of Monday by those, who incensed and
iniuriated beyond the exercise Of reason or
the control of the legal authorities, resorted
10 murder and arson TO avenge the unprovok-
| ed, cod-blooded slaughter and msiming of
heir inocent and inoffensive countrymen.-
We have always deprecated and shall con-
tnue to oppose mob violence, but we are MI
willing that Americans or The American
party should be blamed, and denounced as
| the authors Of these deeds of violence, when
we know and are preparing to prove beyond
/ a shadow of doubt that in every instance
foreigners were the aggressors; that in every
instance the first act of lawlessness and un-
provoked bloodshed was perpetrated by fer
egners upon the persons OF unotfending and
peaceable native born citizens.
The Anti-American party and its organs
are Vanly attempting by baseless and impu-
dent assertions, violent denunciations, and
paipable Misrepresentation and perversions
OF facts, to shit the stigma OF the authorship
OF these disgraceful occurrences from their
own party to ours. We will not, at present,
attempt to point out and refute singly the
many glaring inaccuracies and Measurements
contained in the notices of these riots pub
lshed in the Sag Nlcht papers. We will in
due time present the sworn statements oil
respectable men and women, who witnessed
the whole affair from the commencement tC
the end, both in the First and Eighth wards.
We will then abundantly show, not only
that no violence was perpetrated by Ameri-
cans except in retaliation for an unprovoked
and co d: blooded butcheFy Of their country
men by foreigners congregated in large mum
bers, armed with guns and pistols and blud
geons, and by other foreigners, shooting
from out Of doorways and gateways and FROM
3 windows and behind walls and fences, upon
] unsuspecting A americans passing upon the
public streets, ut that no sufficient provoca.
ton or excuse had been given by Americans
in ny portion OF the city for any Of the out
RACES which were committed by the Irish anC
iGermans, and which really began and pro
duced the riotous excuses which we SO much
deplore. We know that the election was
proceeding quietly everywhere, that, in order
to avoid even the imputation of any unfair
ness or improperly, which they expected
pulous opponents to account for the gloriou:
victory which our friends were confident Of
" WINNING, The Americans, in their respective
councils, had determined okeep order and
peace end quiet atthe polls This they did
1t is true that, believing that there would moi
be time to poll full vote in some of the
wards, they made use of every fair means to
get in American votes with all possible de-
j. spatch, but we deny that any unusual OBJ
struction was offered or attempted to be off.
cred to any legal and orderly behaved voter
At the time that the tact was proclaimed
; at the polls that their countrymen had with.
). out prUvocation been shot down, murdered
in cold blood, by ferocious foreigners, in dis
tant and quiet streets of the city, the Ameri
cans in the neighborhood Of the several voting
places at first refused to believe that suct
: outrages had been committed, and consider
f ed it luse to draw them away from the poll:
and to give an opportunity to the Sag Mich
forces to take possession of the polls ant
d prevent Americans from voting. 1t wa.
e only when the wounded and the dead o
D their fellow countrymen were brought before
them and they were convinced that cowardly
and bloody murders had been perpetrated
that, with cries of vengeance upon the muir,
der srs, the sought them out and hunted then
into the houses Tint were despoiled or de-
+ stroyed. Until this shooting was begun BY
: the foreigners, the Americans were genera /,
unarmed, while, in both the first and eighth
t wards, the foreigners, both the Germans ant
e the Irish, acted in concert and were armed
Y to the teeth with fire arms prepared severa
r days before. When the fracas commenced
the Americans were obliged to go to theil
homes or to the courthouse to procure arms
and to the shops to buy arms and ammunition
to repel the attacks make upon them and tC
avenge the innocent American blood tina
l hsd haon Shad I'm IN this tina thou hay