Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-09-01
THE LOUISVILLE RIOTS~AGAIN,

Some men reduce hypocrisy to a science.
They can play the saint and sinner at one and
the same time-artfulIy impressing thei. fellow
men with a profound reverence for their hu
manity and justice, all the while that Justice
and humanity have no place in their hearts
They speak like angels-they think like devils
Judge them by their professions, simply, and
WI are bound 10 believe them almost too up.
! right, pure and psaceable, TO dwell in this world
of wickedness and woe; but estimate their true
nature by the character Of their actions, and
nought but the moral monster is revealed.
| Shakespeare had some such visions of human
depravity fitting through bis brain when he
wrote
"Why. they can smile, and murder while they
smile,
And cry content to that which grieves their heart.
And wet their cheeks with artificial tears;
And frame their faces unto all occasions"
The originals of this repulsive picture, we
grieve to say, are-too many of them-at our
doors. The so.called Democratic presses
from the pompous Administration Union, at
Washington, down to the neanest aecho' else
where may be singled out as striking likeness
ses--4EVe. Since Tnesday last, the Louisville.
their discourse; and listen to their weeping and
""'ho OSV tnO SlO ItutE HIGH WUOd0 ives
were sacrificed in that fatal fray, a stranger.
unused to their crocodile tears, would be ike.
" to conclude that their sympathy was not all
q selfish, heartless sham--but real and sincere.
Exhausting the vocabulary for terms to inten-
sify their simulated sorrow that scenes like
these should be visible in an American citv.
they, at tho SANE time, by seeking to throw the
responsibility of the riot upon the heads of the
A mArlpNna aPo 6ninn fho vor tL:c- A.. ~ FL
to provoke a repetition of them at future |
The Germans and the lrish-sthe |
foreigners who, be it remembered, fred the first
gun" --are spoken of by these journals as If
they were martyrs. while our own countrvmep
who were cruelty shot down, as if 5y unseen
from second story windows, are stip.I
nat'zed as no better than 80 many incepdiariea
md murdsrers.
We submit whether this is the most exnedi.
The most prudent, or the most rational
method of sweetening the bitternesses of feel.
ng which lead to these sanguinary results?
We ask. what is to be gained BY this dishonest
xculpation of the one side, and blind crjmina.
ion Of the other--in defiance of evidence. pos;.
i've enough now, we think, to. satisfy every
mind, in quest of the truth--that the
IN question were, in a great de-
rec, the result OF predetermipation on the part|
I the foreigners? Specifications, demonstra-
We Of that truth, have been abundantly adj,
uced already, bit Others are now 90 accumn>
'ting-upoD our hand as to render persuasion
, that end Irresistible. There are men of hichj
landing and character in the American pariv.
Louisville, who are prepared to prove, bv
spectacle witnesses, first, that the foreign
opulation were melted to violence; second.
ut these riots were not occasioned bv anv. .
occurring at any Of the sever raj voting .
tssird, that every act of bloodshed was :
'gun by foreigners; and, fourth that the first
Of violence occurred in the First Ward. :
'ont 8 o'clock in the morning. uDon Ehich /. .
Mr.. George Burge, an American. :
assaulted by a party of Irishmen, without .
y Provocation.. He was knocked down. {
q beaten with stones and clubs, and after. |,
ards pursued into an alley and stabbed. when. /,
sr ne had fallen, an Irishman drew q CLASH. :
stopped down and cut his throat, VI. ]
J. saese are persons prepared to attest these !!
'ts.-and YEAR inclined to the Impression. h
they viii De fully c~orroborated before the 4
Until 6scial Investigation BE- had. The b
'ary mSxlms of honesty, which honorshIs
are expected to practice in everv.dav I;s.
Md admonish the journals to which re- r. cl
70 reifa'n-in the present excited state Of VI
puo'lc mind--from sitting lin judgment
the Americans, and, in utter cotampt az
strong circumstantial evidence eoino "a III
Nv that the disturbance was none eaf thai. ca