Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-18

! sued. MI. Dllgn rode up and advised the
Germans to put up their guns, which they re
| fused 70 do, and no wonder. Let their pur-
"a rs go about their business, and all was
quiet. When or Is. turned to leave, the
germans fired at his buggy and threw stones
| IL does not appear that they hit him, or In.
tended to do hiri any harm. IL is not, how.
| ever, 10 be wondered at, that men assailed
! should suspect all approaching especially one
VIGOROUSLY sympathizing with the enemy.
Here is another very edifying certificate:
I "a. Jackson White. who fesides on the
| Point, above White Mills, says: He saw par
| ty of uhsrmed Americans running in towards
Main, on Shelby street, pursued by about TWEEN
| ty foreigners, who were armed with guns and
pistols The Americans stopped between JEFF
| ferson and Green, and being reinforced, turned
on the foreigners, rfho fed out beyond Wal
nut They fred on us when we approached
them, and continued firing as they ran from
behind corners, etc., wOunding some ten or
twelve of US. was shot in the back part Of
the heal, receiving twenty three shot in my
hat, but was not seriously hurt This was be.
tween one and two clock, (affiant thinks) on
Monday evening. The Americans had no guns
| in the beginning of this melee
| Affiant states that at four or five o'clock af-
ter having had his head dressed, he went OH
| Main street, above Preston; he saw some Amer
leans with bricks in their hands, standing
| about large building on the north side of
Main, apparently waiting for Irishmen to
show themselves at the windows or come out.
when he saw q man fire out Of the window with
a gun and shot man in buggy, who was
passing down the street
A. J. WHITE"
This witness only saw the body of unarmed
Americans running from the Germans. He
did not see them first, tho pursuers, as other
witnesses testify.
We say, upon these afidavits alone any jur,
would return verdict against the mob of bull
lies acting in the name Of u party, and shout
ing their party slang. The insolence that ap-
pears in all this is, that it was outrageous in
Germans to resist They ought to have been
quietly beaten When they stopped the crowd
running up Shelby street-after some foreigner
no doubt-it was mOnstrouS Why did not
this crowd leave these Germans alone They
were on their own defence; why must they BE-
assaulted, again and again, and by all means
hunted, beaten, and their property destroyed
The last witness saw crowd on Main, OF
Americans standing before a large building,
with brick-bats, watching for Irishmen t.
show themselves at the windows, or come out
He saw man fire out of the window NJ
wonder. Great outrage indeed, that an Irish
man, whose house is surrounded by 4 mob with
brick-bats, should fire out Of the window
just think OF the mOnstrOuS ins0lence Of the
editor OF the Journal to publish such certif-
Gates as these, expecting to lay the blame Oh
the Irish and Germans by such testimony.
We shall not, of course, notice all these GER
tlhcates, as they amount 10 but little. After
such fight begins, enraged men or bad mer.
whether natives or foreigners, will commit out
RACES; but these very certificates point out the
aggressors We shall soon have plenty of di-
rect proof on this point.
One of the editors of the Democrat happened
to be in that carriage which was fired at from
a house that was afterwards burned, &c. In
answer to the plea, that the firing from the
window at the carriage justified the burning
of the house, with women and children, &c,
the editor AYERS that the house was being
stoned by the mob when the shots in question
were fired, as that as they hit neither horses,
persons, nor carriage, it is fair to presume that
the shots were designed to frighten off the
mob rather than to do damage.
The Louisville Times of the 18th says:
The Journal of Monday published number
OF athdavits attempting u fix the origin of the
riots in the Eighth Ward on the foreigners It's
own testimony is contradictory, and very plain
ly shows that the first act Of violence was on
the part Of the Know Nothings. This one of
Its own witnesses acknowledges. He states in
his certificate that party of Irishmen, pass
Ing on the corner of Main and Tenth, were
jostled and struck by some Know Nothings,
and the fight commenced. Weapons were
drawn by both parties, and shots were made.
The balance is well known. The Irish were
pursued to their resdences--they fired out OF
the windows-killed two men who were psss-
ing and who were not engaged in the riot--and
then followed the scene Of burning and blood.
The Journals certificates have proved d
fallurc-even with the help of one Irishman
aud one Englishman. The case is clear to
every unprejudiced mind. In every case in
which there was fight on election day, the
Know Nothing buliies commenced it by insults
and attacks upon foreigners. What could be
expected OF human nature butte resist such out
RACES! What could be expected of men, when
pursued to their houses, but that they would
attempt to defend themselves, their wives and
children, even with deadly weapons Few
kentuckians would have waited until they
were driven to their homes. The use of weap-
ons was wrOng-it was criminaI-and deeply
unfortunate did 1t prove to several Americans
and to many f0relgners-but mOb-law and
house. burning, and murder were not the proper
remedies. They should have been arrested
and dealt with by the laws Of the land. While,
therefore, we condemn the use of deadly
weapons by the Irish, even after they had been
beaten and pursued-yet. their using them is
no apology for nor justification of the mob.
lawlessness which followed.
But these circumstances will yet be inyesti-
gated and the truth brought to light.
The Louisville Courier, of the 10Th, says:
CAPT. STONE AND HIS MOB.-Until our at
tenticn was called to it yesterday we did not
notice the card of Capt d. c. Stone in the
journal Of Saturday, in reply to paragraph
in the Courier calling the attention Of the
authorities to the conduct Of the men who pa
raded the sire cts with the cannon on MONDAY
of last week. Capt. Stone vindicates himself
by stating that he was acting under the order
OF superior officers, who, in turn. were respond
ing to the wishes Of Mayor Barbee. That
those having the cannon in charge acted in
manner in the highest degree reprehensible,
and that their action added greatly to the
excitement already existing, cannot be denied.
Marshal Kidd stopped the men as they were
going up street with the gun and begged them
70 return, as they would do more harm than
good by proceeding farther. No attention
was paid to his request. Judge Nicholson,
who is understood to sympathise with the
Know Nothings, We are. informed. denounced
the gun squad as mob going to sup
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