Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-08-25

man. 1t is from the New Yerk Express, and
he doubtless thinks, as we think, that il takes
a correct view of the late murderous affray in
Louisville, and should be published. 1t is calm
and dispassionate in its tops, and should be
read:
WHO Il RESPONSIBLE!
The murderous and incendiary demonstra-
ton in the streets ofLouisville, on Monday, il
now comes out, was not altogether an impromp.
,u ebullition of mob passion, evoked by the
excitement of the moment, but, as q chain OF
facts and circumstaS1es goes to show, the
fruits of a prcconcerted and deliberate deter
mination to provoke a quarrel with the Ameri-
cans. We learn from the Louisville Democrat,
MISUNDERSTANDING that some days previ'
GUS to the election, a number of persons, act
ing as a committee for somebody else, swat
ed upon the executive authorities OF the Know.
Nothing Councils, professedly in reference to
the adoption Of measures to protect the right
! of suffrage from apprehended Interruption"
II is thus made clear that the disturbances
( which took place on Monday, were "appre-
hended," if not duly provided for. The Know.
| Nothings, thinking that any steps in that Girec.
ton, on their part, must be predicated upon the
SuSpClUu ttIdt ltiC LAuIStiCduS "CIC 1iICupIOlC
of exercising the right of suffrage with a Vigi-
lance Committee to watch over them, declined
to act in the premises. Another reason assign
ed for this species of non-intervention, was,
that the city authorities had appointed an extra
cient for the emergency, and more efectual
than individuals selected for their weight Of
character alone, having no official authority.
Besides, it was agreed, that if there were any
design on the part of the Germans and Irish
to attack the Americans, they, the Americans,
without preliminary preparation or flourish,
would be found abundantly able to protect
themselves. These overtures to the Know
NothingxI bcontestably demonstrate "malice
prepense, and strengthen the belief that the
tragedy on election day, was performed in
strict accordance with the programme antece-
IDENTIFY agreed upon. The Louisville Journals
press OF high standing, as long ago as the st
of the month, "a whole week previous to the
election,) employed the following language:
"From all quarters ue hear Of preparations
made on the anti-American side for a resort TO
riolence at the polls. We hear, from n hundred
sources, of organized bands Of DULLES, who,i it
is said, are to receive extraordinary prices for
their rutlianIy services. We hear of systema-
tic arrangements of foreign born persons. led
on by natve-born Sag-Nichts, to take forcible
possession of the polls on Monday morning
or Sunday night, and to keep forcible possess
sion of them until all the Sag ichts votes |
shall be polled." Remember, this was uttered a
week before the election. Do not the high.
handed o~utrages Of Monday show to the let.
that the editor of the Journal but stated
what then must have been pretty notorious
facts! F\Vha has been heard "froln a hundred
sources, was now even more than fulfilled, |
Yet, in the face of such facts as these, there are
men base enough to assert, and persist in as.
that the riot was all the result of the
agitation. Ingenuity is racks
I'd for the most plausible apologies for the real
lggressors-the Germans and the Irish-but
he Americana b spoken of as no better than
and incendiaries.
The Journal, in putting the citizens of Lou.
svlle upon their guard against the conspiracy
II preparation, took occasion to say-"We ear
testify hope that our friends will not anticipate
collision of force at the polls, and that they /.
viii make no provision for any such contingen-
y"
The Journal is favorable to the Know. Moth.
ngs, and the prudent advice it here gives to
he Americans, We suppose, is one of those
rabid know-Nothing appeals" which the op.
osition assert, was the immediate incentive TO
no disturbance. We search in vain for an i.ni-J-
alton of the good example on the part of the
oreigners. The language they and their
lends had all along seen fit to employ, in the
curse OF the canvass, was not of a, character
alcnlated4o soothe or conciliate. The Kno w. {
were. called "midnight conspirators;"
len of the dark lantern" and hardly better;
Individually or in the aggregate, than men who
resolved themselves into a species of or
anlzed burglars. The ignorant among the
and Irish believed all these monstrous
|legations,-and so believing, what wonder
lat they thought to be doing mankind a ben. !
it in seekingto exterminate the 'dark Ian. q
rms" by blowing out American brains? They
d thus act out the instincts o. a previous l
aiming. In this performance they did but act Il
1T the brutal instincts of ''bloody i~nstruc- g
pns." that appear to have been previously :
p