Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-16
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
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OPA'"VH endt us triumph IL ITduSnI Will LAVI'
danger to society than that of any other pes
tiferous ism that was ever conceived for tn
| punishment of weak and erripg man. "
know not how we can Better accomplish thi
purp ose, than by continuing to quote detail
and statements concerning the late dreadful
and disgraceful occurrences Ia Iouisy;iI,
which we find in the newspapers of that CITY
We therefore quote from the Louisville Couril
of the Ism ult as follows, viz
iHE tRLGEDfEs OF ELECTION DAY-HaG
we oe.n 30 disposed we might have filled on
E.iumns from day to day since the electio.
with an account of the terrible tragedies ell
acted on that mourpful occasion; but we hay
felt an indispoSitiOn to parade ali the facts il
our possession before the community. know
ing That they would only heiShten the excitc
inent and aggravate the passion naturally ell
suing. There are some circumstances how
ever, that we Cannot withhold from the pub
lie, IN justice to ourselves and the truth W,
seek to establish. Of this character are tn,
following:
Young Long, sen of the proprietor of th,
grocery store corner of Eleventh and Mai
streetS, that was burned, states that half AZ
hour previous to shot being fred in that Sc d.
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Der OF the Know Nothing order, approached
him and urged his leaving the store of his ia
ther. de said tiat at night an attack woula
DC certainly made; that it was arranged t.
IRE tbat block and shoot the inmates who dared
- escape. In accordance with this advice
Long removed his father and mother to a placr
Oh SAFETY. He then returned to the store.
"nere his two brothers were, and before they
could escape the attack was made. In escar-
ing himself he received Thirteen bullet wonnd>
and Is now confined, dangerously ILL., from their
ELECTS Ills two brothers were unable to leave
and were actually consumed in the contlagra-
ton.
An lrishman residing in the same blocL
attempted TO leave, but was shot and driver
back. Again he attempted TO reach the street
aud was driven back, receiving several shot
Weak and faint he crawled out the back way
reached the paper-mill yard, and, finding a
hole IN the SandDank, lay there all night, his
wounds bleeding all the while.
"Of such horrible nature were a hundred
incidents that transpired during Monday. TIE
heart recollS at their contemplatiOn--the blood
chills at thought of the hesrtIessness of thai
night attack, when inneeent men were shot
down and the property and lives of nen and
women, VINO had done no wrong, were recOg-
nlzed only that The bullet and the torch might
be applied to their destruction.
~ Efforts have been made to procure som.
authentic evidence as to the origin OF Monday
riots, but the fear of violence. which yet pre-
walls among some of our most respectable cili
lens, both native ard foreign born, deter,
many from permitting their names to be mad
puoilc, even though the proper authorities
make no efforts tn investigate the matter or f.
bring the parties to Justice"
Our entire city police officers are, we be-
neve, with scarcely an exception, Know No
things, yet we hear of no efforts being made
10 nave legal investigation of the recent dis
graceful outrages. The occasion certainly
called for the use Of extraordinary Efforts, yct
we near OF nothing whatever being done"
From The Louisville Democrat of the same
date tthe l3th) we quote to-day as follows:
THE Geographic reports from Louisville re-
spectlng the riots In this city arc the grossest
and faiSehOods we ever
read. We shall publish them in a few days,
when we have gotten the true history of some
transactions TO which they refer. The lie i.
told with brahen effrontry, that there was no
disturbance at the polls. The mob started,
according to this veraciOus reporter, by the
Irish who pursued Berge in the upper part Of
the city, and it started in the Eighth Ward by
the Irish shooting down two peaccable citizens
without pr0yOcatiOn. Such stories may fad
credit abroad, where people know knothing 0;
the condition Of things here.
I'VE intend to give the true history Of these
transactions from eye witnesses. Our readel
know that We anticipated disturbances; tina.
the anti-knOw Nothing party made every e.
tort for peace beforehand. They made propo
sI,tt1fe which would have prevented the dis
grace of Louisville, but thIir proposals wery
spurned by party that had other views anu
purposes. The Democrats have no part in the
government of this city, judicial or admins
trative. The Know NOthings had the bushes
all i'll their own way. How they have per
formed their duty the history of the last week
will testify. The public will hold them to q
strict account.
- Fer all the violence of the mob. we have
heard of 40 arrests yet, except OF poor Ger
mans or Irish, whe were beaten and terrified
and exasperated into indi.cretlonS, or who
were beaten and abused with ut cause. The
hundreds of builic5 with clubs Al the polls
beating legal voters away, came and wont uI-
molested. 1t may &c q matter Of wonder tina,
such things could 60 or for whole day, and
even begin the next day, here in Louisville
We can Only say that the preparations were
too we'll made, an! there was 30 organization
to prevent It's objects. individuals did wllut
they could. Some Of the American party tric
to stop or mitigate these outrages, when they
could not stop them, for party managers AG i
raised storm they could not control.
"RumOrs utterly false, Of the most exctin;
sort, were raised by the men who were them
selves the guilty, which completely deceived
and misled men who were DESTROYS of peace,
and crippled their efforts Thus deeds Of yio-
lence and blood went on
These extracts go far 70 satisfy the thought
full, who, though they sympathiso against the
Catholic religion, and against the entire poli,i-
cal equality of foreigners who have been La
turalIzed, that in essaying to rid the country
Of what they regard as great evils, Know
Nothingism breeds greater-brccd8 the renii-
ton Of American public affairs into the hand> OF
brutal, murdcrOus and incendiary mobs com
posed Of the idle, dissoluto and vicious. who
have nothing whatever at stake i'll society,"
a class Of persons who have never yet, in any
age or cline, attempted to reform and regulate
society without bringing on it ten-fuld the
evils they professed TO be aiming to eradicate.
We took occasion day or two since to char.
acterize the spirit Of Know Nothingism as dis
played at the meeting of the friends Of Nj.
Wise, before Browns hotel in this city, as be-