The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-08-14
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lean newspapers OF this city striving industrious
ly to ward off from their party the odious respon-
sibility Of having caused the disgracefu riots and
/ horrid butcheries of Monday. deep, dark and
damning stain has furnished the hitherto bright
cutcheon of Louisville. The heart of every good
citizen sickens at the contemplation of the terrible
excuses which have been committed. The blame
however should and will attach itself to those who
drew the first blood who committed the first acts
OF lawless violence-to those who gave the first
mortal provocation, which brought upon the often
ders terrible, excessive retaliation and retribu
ton. OF these offences the Amer lean party is
entirely guiltless 1t fearessy stand up before
the community, whose peace has been ruthlessly de
stroyed, and say, with conscientious truth, Shake
not thy CORY locks at mel Thou canst not say did
t."
! We do not for one moment attempt to excuse or
even to pslliate the enornty of the outrages COM
/ mitted on the afternoon aud night of Monday by
those, who incensed and Infatuated beyond the ex-
ercise of the control of the legal authon-
ties, resorted to murder and to avengc the I'M
/ provoked, cold blooded slaughter and manning OF
! their innocent and inoffensive counuymen. We
have always deprecated and shall continue to OPP
| pose mob violence, but not willing that
| Americans or the American party should be blamed
and denounced as the authors OF these deeds OF
viol ence when we know and preparing to
prove beyond shadow of doubt that IN every
instance foreigners were the aggressors; that IN
!
provoked bloodshed was perpetrated by foreigners
upon the persons of unoRending and peaceable ma
tive born citizens fa
The Anti American party and its organs vainly
attempting by baseless and impudent assertions,
violent denunciations, and papstle misrepresenta-
tons and perversons of facts to shift the stigma of
the authorship of these dsgracefu occurrences from
their own party to ours. We will not, at present,
attempt to point out and refute sngly the many
glazing inaccuracies and misstatements contained in
the notices OF these riots published by Sag NIGHT pa
pers. We will in due time present the sworn
statements of respectable men and women, who
witnessed the whole affair from the commencement
TO the end, both in the First and Eighth wards. We
will then abundanty show, not only that no violence
was perpetrated by Americans except in retaliation
for unprovoked and cold blooded butchery oftheir
countrymen by foreigners coDgregated in large
Numbers armed with guns and pistols and bladgeons,
and by other foreigners, shooting from out of door
ways and gateways and from windows and behind
walls and fences, upon unsuspecting Americans
passing upon the public Streets but that sufficient
provocation excuse had been given by Americans
in any portion of the city for any of the outrages
which were committed by the Irish and Germans,
and which really began and produced the riotous
excuses which we so much deplore. We know
that the election proceeding quietly everywhere;
that, in order to avoid even the mputation Of any
unfairness or improperly, which they expected
would be eagerly caught at by their INSCRIPTIONS
opponents to account for the glorious victory which
our friends were confident at winning, the Ameri-
cans, in their respective councils, had determined
to keep order ard peace and quiet at the polls
This they did. 1t is true that, believing there
would not be time to poll full vote in of the
wards, they made of every fair means TO get in
American votes with all possible despatch, but we
deny that any unusual obstruction was offered or
attempted to be. At the time that the fact was
| Il Il n
without proYocaton been shot down, murdered in
cold blood, by ferocious foreigners, in distant and
quietstreets ofthc city, the Americans in the neigh
borhoOd of the several voting places at first refused
| TO believe that such outrages had been committed,
aud considered it ruse to draw them away from
| the polls and to give an opportunity to the Sag
NIGHT forces TO take possession of the polls and pre-
vent Americans from voting. 1t only when
the wounded and the dead of their fellow country
men were brought before them, and they were
convinced that cowardly and bloody murders had
been perpetrated that, with cries of vengeance up
on the murderers they sought them out aud hunted
them into the houses that were despoiled or de.
stroyed. Until this shooting was begun by the
foreigners, the Americans were generally unarmed,
| while, in both the first and eighth wards, the
foreigners, both the Germans and the Irish, acted
in concert and were armed to the teeth with fire
arms prepared several days before. When the
fracas commenced, the Americans were obliged to
60 to their homes or TO the courthouse to procure
arms, and Is the shops TO buy arms and ammunition
to repel the attacks made upon them and to avenge
the innocent American blood that had been shed.
Up to this time they had been victorious in the
election, they in good humor with every
one, and were rejoicing at having realized their
fondest hopes in gaining victory without any
disorder orbreaches of the peace.
That grave outrages and heinous wrongs were !
perpetrated by Americans, when they took the law
in their own hands aud sought to punish the muir
derers of their couDtrymen, and avenge those who
had been killed and wounded without provocation |
will deny; but il is useless for organs of the
anti-American party TO seek any longer to conceal
the fact those outrages were commenced by the |
foreign population, that the first wrongs committed
were committed by foreigners, that the first blood /
shed was the work Of foreigners, that the first
ders perpetrated were petrated by foreigners That
these foreigners were maddened and excited and |
instigated to these deeds of violence by the insd-
ious incendary appeals of the organs of the foreign
party and the demagogues and leaders, who have
for weeks past been seeking the passions and
prejudices of this class of citizens against Ameri-
cans, can scarcely for a moment be doubted. That
these attacks upon the Americans were premedita-
ted and done by concert and agreement among the
perpetrators, can be and will be established. An
intelligent public will not, when these facts are
known, attribute these riots to the American party
but, in spite of all protestations of lamb like limo
cence and all attempts to misrepresent facts, the
responsibility and the blame will be surely and Justly
bought home to its real authors, the incendiary
demagogues of the foreign, ti.Americsn party.
HIS HOLINESS THE PoPE UPON FREE MAsoSs,
ODD FELLOWS, &c.-In the Louisville american