American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1855-10-13
meet tho snti-Amerioan editor, be he


whom he may, that daros to contradict
tho facts rs we report them. All we
ask is that the truth be made manifest,
and that the blood of the slain Of Lou
isvillc DC made TO stain the hands and
the garments Of the mwdcrers who 50
wantonly shed it
We rccur to these incidents and facts
now because the Telegraph of this
place, is publishing at least every other
week, o rehash Of the fulsOme vagaries
Of the Washington Union and the
Louisville Courier" about the riot
and its consequences. And what claim
have these sheets to belief? The
" Union " is the dependent mouthpiccc
Of the present loreign-fusion and Cath
olic supporting Adm.nistration-the
common slucc of Forney's Kitchen
Cabinet" The louisville Courier"
whose editor sold himself to Col. Pres
ton in the late canvass, and was there
for expelled from the American order,
is not less distinguished for reckless
falschood and unblushing misreprcscn-
tation, else how dare he vomit his lies
in the face Of his fellow-citizens who
have solemnly affirmed the contrary Of
his naked and unsupported assertions?
The story of woe, headed the bloody
Monday published by these reckless
sheets, purporting to come from an en-
iuent Methodist preacher Of Louisville,
is counterfeit and falschood in its very
essence, for no such name as its repu-
ted author can be found in the Confer
cnce lists of the Methodist Church in
that whole region, after diligcnt search.
If it was genuine, its author could be
found to back it, but no author forth
coming, and no eminent Methodist
Clergyman" of the name recognized in
the records Of the denomination, the
fabulous "bloody Monday" is nailed
to the counter as vile fabrication -
There we let it lie! Another story,
from the Washington Union, is to this
effect: that some of the farmers about
Louisville arc offering to sell their homes
at half price, to emigratc to Virginia,
because they can't stand it any longer
in the bloody region Of Louisville, under
American legislation, and they want to
get under the wing of Mr.. Wise -
What a lie 1t may do to tell to such
as believe Forncy infalliblc, but to any
who know aught about the value of the
land about Louisville, and the advanta-
ge5 Of that region, such stuff enters one
ear 70 so out at the other. No, no,
the farmers about Louisville know who
shed the first blood on election day and
they voted for Moorchead for Governor
of Kentucky, that the usurpations and
political dcbauchcry of the foreign rab-
bic which infest the body polite might
be stayed, and that they as Kentucbi-
ans might be delivered from its blight
ing, whitening curse.
In conclusion, we state one thought
for the candid reader, and ask him to
weigh it well in the light Of history.
In our election riots, has the conflict
been between antagonistic native citi-
zens, or has not the foreigner and the
native been the parties bclligcrenI .
Who has been most noisy and turbu-
lent, and whose blows have demanded
retailation-who the Gggrcssor ? Let
the innocent blood Of Americans, shed
N the streets Of Philadelphia, Cincin-
nattl, New Orleans and Louisville, fur
nlsh the reply, as it has smokcd.upon
It's native soil, defending the inalcna
bic rjrhts Of the natiyC citiznn