The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-22
Condition of Foreigners of Lou
isviIle

1SV1ll6.
The following account of the deplor-
able condition of the foreigners who
have literally been driven from Louis
ville+by Know-N Nothing violence, is from
the Chicago Times. It is no exaggera-
ton of the ~disgraceful facts of a case,
the slightest ~allusion to which causes
the blood of every true American to
Jingle. A commentary upon our pro
fesseG national generosity has been writ
ten in blood, and is recited in the wall
ings of widows in agony for their muir
dered husbands, and the meaning of or
phaned children driven out to diel Is
this Americanism? Is this the remedy
for an evil altogether imaginary? AS God
liveth-NOl If there is a Providence
that stoops so low as to mind the affairs
of mortal men, such wrongs as have
been perpetrated by tha-Secret Order
of Proscriptionists, such outrages will
be speedily avenged. The aceursed
thing has gone quite far enough Let
the proud and defiant waves of that
food of iniquity be staid by the timely
interposition of the people. And let
all who have any remains of political
and moral honesty in them, ''come out
and be e%ternally separate from such
works of darkness, dcsolation, and
death: GO
"The German population of Louis
willie have nearly all abandoned it. They
have eneamped out on the Bardstown
road. That encampment is a sorrowful
one. In it are they who mourn the
death of fathers, brothers, wives, sons
and daughters; and who dare not go
back to the city to gather up and bury
the charred and blackened remains of
their slaughtered kindred. Women are
there, who, in the agony of premature
childbirth, scream aloud the m of
murdered husbands, and expiring, won
der if this be hospitable America!
Strong men, weak women, feeble child
rem, OUR the loss of all those little
articles, of no great intrinsic value, but
precious az the memorials of other and
happier days.
"Wives weep over the loss of gifts
received at parting from aged parents
in fatherland, and wondering, think how
cruel to tear from their little reccptacles
the humble roles of the poor. Alas,
for them there is no restoration. Alas!
to them the fond husband, doting father,
protecting brother, will return no more.
Their murdered bodies are piled in the
streets of Louisville, fit monuments of
the bloody triumph of fierce, unrelent-
ing intolerance. An intolerance that
in the pursuit of its end knows no re-
spcct for law, SEX, age or condition.
The Germans of Louisville were not
asked whether they were Catholics or
not. They were shot down without
question and burned alive without time
being given to cxtricate women and
children, sick or dying. 1t was a war
of extcrmination; in which to be sure
of death was to have been born on a for
eign soil. No mercy, 10 sparing cry,
no sympathy for wounded, no quarter
giyenl This is the fate which Know
Nothingism extends to the foreign born
citizen"
Read that, o, we who have fed from
hardships aad oppression with the hope
of finding an asylum here! And then
say, whether, in the mighty struggle in
which your Democratic friends are er-
gagged for the sake of equal justice to
all, you will be found with them, or
with those who have bound themselves
by hcrrid oaths effect your ruinl Say
whether you will be on the side,of your
friends, or east your}votes for SALMON
P. CHASE who stands before the world
associated with your ~releGtlcss en- mics!
The time is at hand when you must
speak What will you.say?