New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-20
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she same time artfnlly mpressing tEe;r ~
men with profound reverence for ta;y
ny ana Justice, all the while that iustice a,ss
humanity have no place in their hearta Thas,
sPeak ifke angeis-they thtnk like devils. Jndee
them by their professions, SIMPLY and we ~
Bound to believe them almost TOO upriaht- nura
ana peaceable, to dwell in this world Of wicked.
~ 1sss and wd wsut estimate their trrle nature bv
sI sIe eoaracfer oT their actions, and noyghs bnt
aeosas monster is revealed. Shakespeare had
ihro,,s ,s stsa Visions of human deprayify fitting
lis Drain when he wrote-
Ana es1 ocss W. smile and murder while they smile
knd ~, So y so that wbeh grieves their heart
ana frame their IA sea INTO sTi eccssiops u
! 9rigiHais Of th's repnEsive uicture, we
srieFe g say, are--too many'ofs theu-at ou,.
doors. The so-csllsd Democratic fso,,, oa,
tne ponlpous Adlaiaistrati Upion a yVss,f,1f,-
ION % IN to the tIeancst &. eeho,s easaarFsa
may 1e singled outas striking lkenesses Eva.
snee NJ sday last, the Louisville riOts have heen
she am ost exclusive theme Of their DISCOURSE
.ha lnl g listen their weeping and wailing over
sue !, u,nIeTtunate men WHOSE lives we're sacrifced
IN that fatal fray, stranger unI1ss n ths;r
srocouHe tears, would be likely to copeiude
mat snssr sympathy was not all a selfish. heart
| !e~' sh ham~-but real and sincere sxhaust-
'ng the voca6uiary for eartss to irteusifg cir
siihu lat;i sorrow that scenes like these shaaId
70 ssihfe IN an american city. they t the sauas
IL =: Sehis ~ tnfVM sthe responsibility of
tae riotsuI N the heads of the ~Amerieana .re
doing the very thing that is likely d proyots
repetition Of them at future elections The e;er.
ians al tue lrish7ss tho foreigners Who. he Il
remembered, fred the fret gun ARE srsslser ~
oy these Journals aS II they were marty while
our own countrymen who were cruelty shot,
Gown, as Il by unseen assassins, from second
story windows, are stigmatized as no better DIAN
80 many incendiaries and murderers
w G submit whether this ia the most a-nal:or4
kne most prudentr or the most rational method
OF s"eetening the bitternesses of feeling which
lead to these sanguinary results We ask. what
is TO be gained by this dishonest exculpation of
the one side, and blind elimination Of lie other
In defiance Of evidence, positive enough now,
We think, to satisfy every impartial mind in
quest.of the truth-that the disturbances IL
question we're, in great degree, the result of
pfedetermination on the part Of the foreigners
! speclhcatlons, demonstrative of that truth have
been abundantly adduced already, but others
are nov SO accumulating upon our hand az to
render persuasion to that end irresistible, There
are men Of high standing and character in the
american party, at Louisville, who are prepared
t9 prove, BY respectable Witnesses, first. that
the foreign population were incited to violence:
second. that these riots were not occasioned by
any thing that happened at any of the several
voting places; third that every act Of blood
shed was begun by foreigners; and, fourth that
.hS AtSs aGt VI FloItnce occurred IN the EIrSt
Yard, about 8 o'clock in the morning, anon
which occasion, q Mr. George Burge, an Ameri-
san, was assaulted by . party of Irishmen, with
'ut any proFoeatlon. He was knocked down,
md beaten with stones and clubs, and after
sards pnrsued into an alley and stabbed, when,
ltter he.had fallen, an ITishman drew clasp
knife, stopped down and cut his throat We
.ay, there are persons prepared to attest these
acts-and We are inclined to the impression.
hat they will be fully corroberated before the
Joroner's jury.
Until an official investigation be had, the or
iinary naxims of honesty, which honorable
men are expected to practice in everyday life,
should admonish the journals to which we refer
% refrain-in the present excited state of the
public mini--from sitting in judgment upon
he Americans, and, in utter contempt of the
trong eircumstantia1 evidence going to show
hat the disturbance was none of their getting
ip-lauuching forth torrents of inyeetiye
igainst them, and indulgfng in calumnious as
,ersions of their conduct, character and mo-
ives-Without waiting to hear the testimony
or the defence. \ Nov, the effect of this ILL
judged partlaiity is not likely to eonduee much
10 the restoration of harmonious feeling between
the parties belligerent., 1t will only irritate
The Americans, and have tendency to impeI
10 new resentments, at the same time that it
will make the foreigners more naughty, domi-
leering and defiant. five were disposed to
ateh up with like nIischievous ayidity, the
housand and one reports in reference To the
ondnct of the foreigners, before, and on the
ay Of election, we dare say We could make out
terrible indictment against them. We might
mphasise, for example, the fact, that the man
.uinn, who owned the row Of Irish houses at
he corner of Eleventh and Main streets, where
large quantity OF arms and thirteen kegs of
unpowder were stored, ia The brother of an
rish Catholic priest, while we might be per-
ttad tn hat Rirban
elivering up the keys of the church may have
cen prompted to that step to save his own
kirts from blood. But we forbear, until the
ficial investigation be had Taking mere ru-
1ors of this character for positive facts, and
upon them as suoh,, can be produce
i've of no good on either side.
The American people, at this late day, need
o certificate of character, as law observing
eople. 1t is the only nation in the world that
able to govern itself withouta standing army.
treet conflicts, anarchy. reigns of terror, in
4rge cities, are things not indigenous to this
Ill. These are European importations. They
ave been common enough, always, in Tppe-
ary, and on the Continent-hut never, till the
ipperary people, with their German confede-
ates, came here, we're We much troubled with
nem on this side Of the Atlantic. The editors
those democratic journals know all this, yet
hat care they, if the passions they are stirring
p, and the prejudiees they are exciting, do but
observe some miserable party end? What care
hey, if the streets runred with blood, provided
he American party be defeated. and a foreign
ihuenee maintained in the councils of the State
nd nation? These are the men who are come
D be adopts in the eseience of Hypocrisy Peace
nd liberation are on their lps-but contention
nd intolerance in its most repulsiye aspect are
j their hearts. Why, the time is come when
he very name of American is looked upon as
srm OF reproach--as something in common with
midnight conspirators,n and q species Of bur-
lar and robber, who fears the hight of day! It
ras so IN the Revolution-when the Republic
ad its first war with foreign influence. Amer
,an was then SYNONYMOUS with Rehel-Rebels
hat deserve to be shot, To-day, the phrnse is
to that of "conspirators;1 but the pun
shment is pretty much the same death by
hooting-death by the hands Of the German
md the Irishman, For our own parts, if there
5 another war for American independence to
ONE, we could wish that it were one in which
70 could meet the Hessians and the Hibernians,
IS we met them in 10, in the camp and on the
,attle- feld for there the American people
would be likely to have fairer play than they
ind in q war that is waged against them, with
bullets and balls from the ambuscades of second
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