The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-09-22
More Testimony on the Louisville Riots.

More Testimony" on the Louisville Riots.
The Louisville Democrat and Times are now
engaged in publishing testimony to destroy the
effects of the Journals affidavits on the subject
Of the Louisville riots: They have been nearly
two months getting up This testimony, and
no doubt used all the party screws of torture,
worked their utmost on the passions and pre-
JUDGES of foreigners, and spent an immense sum
Of money in bribery and corruption, to secure
the feeble evidence they now offer, to prove
that these riots were commenced by native
born Americans, when there is not man in
Louisville present and observing ON the 9th of
August, but klosos the foreigners were the ag-
gressors. The wonder is, that the editors of
these papers had not had freely profered and
right in the face of the facts scores of afidavts
to prove that Americans commenced the riots
because what was there to prevent men who
had deliberately armed themselves days or
weeksbefore this election to take the lives ofAm-
orleans, aud whojust as deliberately and in cold
blood shot down inoffensive Americans, from
adding perjury to their other crimes especially
when perjury cautiously used might partially
screen their guilt ? But there is no conceiving
the extent Of the bribery, the threats, the
prayers, used to force out these affidavits--
now they appear when the excitement on the
subject has passed---when men, have carefully
examined the whole matter, and formed their
opinion. The affidayits Of the Journal appear
ed when public opinion was demanding the
evidence---when the whole case was before
the court of the pe9pze---ahd they were the tcs-
tmony not ohly of Americans, but of Irish
Catholics, whose sympathies were with the
very persons their honest and freely given testi-
mony condemned. TWAS spontaneous and vol
untary act of justice, to set the truth plainly be-
fore the world, even if friends and fellow coun-
trymen suffered thereby What difference
there is between the character Of this evidence,
even ifthe testimony on the one side were as
strong as that ON the other. But this is not
the fact. AT the time of writing we have in
our possession the Testimony as published in
two fiumbers of the Democrat and Times
The first days publication, forming the great
mass of the testimony thus far relates to the
proceedings in the Sirth Ward, where no riots
really occurred, and where there was no loss OF
life. We visited the polls of that ward when
they were declared by the Courier to be i'll the
possession of the Know Nothings, and that no
foreigner could vote. They were as peacable
as any polls we ever visited, and Germans and
Irish were quietly and uninterruptedly yo-
ting.
We have already published so much in ref
erence to these riots and their origin, that we
feel to say more now, and when the excitement
consequent upon them has passed away, must
not only be an infection upon our readers; but
in view of the overwhelming testimony we have
published, almost an insult to their understand
ing. The forced, and tortured and bought tes-
timony Of thousands at this day. could not
probably have the effect to change a single
PERSONS opinion on the origin of the riots
That they were commenced by foreigners
shooting down Americans coolly and premedi-
tatedly, and that preparations had been
going on days and weeks for these horr;-
bic murders of American citizens, is as undeni-
able as the very fact that there were riots and
murders in Louisville that day. No man car
disbelieUe it who has closely examined the facts
although he may deny it till he is black in the
face.