The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-10-04
The Evidence Clinched.

lished the atilavits of nearly thirty persons,
the great mass of them well known and re-
spectacle citizens of Louisville, on the subject
of the August riots These afidayits are a
complete refutation of the statements and sworn
testimony published in the Sag NIGHT papers.
The latter testimony was principally of Irish
men who were actually engaged in the riots,
shooting Americans-yet to refute the testl-
mony or evidence of each one of these per-
jured wretches, some half dozen decent clti-
zens publish their affidavits The Journal is
not yet done. 1t is now engaged in clinching
the evidence it offeIed directly after the riots
occurred. From long editorial in the Jour-
nal, we make the following extract which well
points out the rascality of the evidence relied
upon by the Sag NIGHTS to prove Americans
were the aggressors in these riots. Let every
man read it,
"These Sag NIGHT certifers are principally
Irishmen and Irishwomen who were in the
houses from which the firearms were dis
charged upon the Americans, but not one of
them knew or heard of anything of that char
acter. They only know that the houses were
aIbdcKGQ DV Il 1lOD Ol hUOW anu ll1C
certificate of one of them Margaret Murphy,
NAV be taken as type of the whole She was
in the house of Kennedy at the cor1ler of Mar
ket and Chapel, whence it is proved beyond
the shadow of doubt that not less than thirty
shots were fired upon the Americans quietly
passing in the street and Offering no violence to
any one, nor even armed so as to be able to re-
pei the murderous assault upon them from the
doors and windows of this house. The house
was filled with Irishrnen, and the shots fired
from it show that number Of them were en-
gagged in the shooting-yet listen to the Muir
phys statement She seems to have had full
personal knowledge of the whereabouts, the
savings, and the doings of nearly score Of
her countrymen and eountrywomen, saw the
doings of the mob up stairs and down stairs
inside and outside Of the house, and saw draw
ers and trunks rifled and burned, in different
parts of the house, and watches and bird-cageS
stolen and men dragged down stairs, and shot
: and stabbed IN the house, and on the porch, anc
in the Backyard and, aclize atl this a0as trans
acted the aoitness and four fire others acsre toe
ed up in closet an the qarret of the house weep
, ing very violently. Truly hertears must have
been more efficaeious than Solomon's specta-
cles, to have enabl ed her to see from her place
t of concealment all that was done in every
4 part of the house, although it seems that she
did not hear any of the repeated volleys fired
by those sick ard slumbering Irishmen from
I the windows of that very house upon innocent
Y tpassers-by and kept up with murderous vio-
5 lence until the doors and windows had beer
beaten in with paving stones and these Irish
fiends had been seized by the friends of the
unoffending victims of their hellish assault.
That shots were fired from this house with
f out proyocation upon Americans quietly pass
L. *
!, were fired from the doors, from the windows
! of the second story, and even from the very
t windows of the garnet where this sightseeing
: witness says she was concealed; and still al
the six 1rishmen in it, according to her state
!, ment, were either sick or asleep, and as limo
= cent as lambs of the murderous discharge o
fire. arms from the doors and windows. Blu
|, DR.. Jonathan Browder and John NJ. Winter
: lold and respectable citizens, who were certain
| ly not engaged in the riots, W. E. Meeks anC
Thos Naves and John Ferguson, all ofwhose
n af1davits are published this morning. and VIM
a Lowders and Richard Fl. Lee and Geo. NJ
d Kirk, all well known and reliable witnesses
saw this shooting at innocent passers-by, and
state beyond contradiction, that it was with
: out any prouocation,
7 Dennis Long and Edward Kehoe have beer
e introduced by the Democrat to testify for them
selves. These immaculate Irishmen were il
one of the buildings In Quinn's Row, but they
were OF course doing nothing wrong, and had
no arms. ana no guns were fired from where
they were, and vet nearly dozen respectable
witnesses have testified that guns were fired
from Longs house, and that this same Long
and his co-certifer, Kehoe, with three others
had guns in their hands on the top OF Longs
house and that shots were fired by one OF
more of this party at the people in the street.
This attempt to introduce, as witnesses, a
portion of the very men who are shown to
have been implicated in the shooting by which
this riot was begun, is a striking proof of the
utter inability of the Sag NIGHTS to escape the
charge already fastened upon the foreigners OF
having been the unproyoked aggressoss In this
instance. An attempt has been made to show
/ by the single affidavit of John Hobbs that
) Hudson was not killed by the Irish, but
Hobbs statement is directly contradicted by
the testimony of DR.. Browder, Captain West,
and Mr. Charles D. Jacob.
. We have not room in our columns to make
a complete examination and comparison of the
Sag Nlctht testimony and the affidavits which
we have published in regard to this affair, but
no one who will examine the published affida-
Wits, even without reference to the wide diff
ference in the character of the witnesses, can
avoid coming to the conclusion that the three
Irishmen who commenced the shooting on the
corner of Tenth and Main streets did so with
generalization and without the slightest provo
cation whatever, and that this firing was the
signal of general assault from all the houses
of the Irish in that neighborhood, and that
this shooting upon unoffending and unarmed
citizens in the quiet street, was the beginning
of the terrible riot which ensued