The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-24
LOUISVILLE RIOTS-SWORN PROOF
OF THEIR FOREIGN ORIGIN

rlble riots nj LOUISVILLE, and their origin.
monstrous outrage has been perpetratec
against the public peace and the cause Of
civil liberty. Justice requires that the coun
try should know who is responsible, and that
the guilty offenders who brought on the fray
by making tn first murderous attack or
peaceable and unarmed citizens, should, with
their allies and instigators in the work OF
lawess destruction, be held to rigid ac
countabiIity at the bar of public opinion.
The Louisville Journal of Monday pub,
fishes aflidavits and certificates from t,oenty.
fire persons many OF them eye witnesses OF
the various scenes they describe, verifying
the statements We have heretofore copied
from that print, to the effect that these terri
Bile riots were commenced by foreigners, q
considerable distance from the places of vo.
ting, that the first blood that was shed was
shed by foreigners, and that they had delib-
bratcly prepared with fire arms before the day
of election, for a deadly collision with the
Americans. We cannot conveniently find
room for this mass of afidavits and certf.
Gates, which occupy about three columns in
that mammoth paper, but we extract the fol-
lowing synopsis of some of the points of
proof therein made out upon personal
knowledge and observation of the wit
nessess Nashville Wing.
We have not room to give complete an
alysis of these affidavits, but it will be seen
that they arc for the most part the sUorn
statements of respectable and reliable men,
who were eye witnesses of the matters to
which they dispose. Some of them are state.
ments upon oath Of foreigners and catholics,
! who lived in the immediate neighborhood of
the scene of the riot, and some actually were
great sufferers thereby
From the testimony of Mrs. Caroline Wall
(whose husband, an Irishman and n Roman
Catholic, was in all probability among those
killed in Quinn's houses,) itappears for some
weeks previous to the election the Irish in
the neighborhood where the riot occurred had
been procuring arms and preparing for fight
and that on the Saturday night of the Amer-
can torch light procession she had heard these
Irshmen say that "they acre led to believe that
The procession would be small by those Oho
opposed the Know Nothings, that she saw
many of them say that they intended TO attack
The procession"
Joseph Huckcr, German and II Catholic,
who lived in one of Qunn's houses (Which
were burned) says there were serenty.fue or
one hundred Irishmen living in that row, and
they had many visitors of their countrymen,
tbutJ t,,n h,
election he saw many of them often with
pistols and guns, and heard one of them,who
had pistols, say, on the Saturday before the
election. that he was. ready. that he had, seen
Quinn carry arms into his hOnse, and that
Quinn had insisted upon his (IIuckers) vot.
ing, although Quinn knew that he (Eucker)
was not entitled to a vote.
James f. Bickham saw the Irish, eight or
ten in number, on the morning of the election,
moulding large quantity Of bullets in the
cellar of one of these houses, and on the
same morning, from 10 to 3 o'clock, Thos. w.
FIarel saw numbers of these Irismen, armed
with pistols and bowie kpives, passing in aud !
out from the houses of this row. These men
had begged Mrs. Wallis husband to receive |
arms in his house. The women had slept in |
their clothes the previous night so as to be |
ready to leave upon the shortest notice, and |
Mrs. Ruby Dodd, and Elizabeth Dodd and |
Margaret Dodd, her daugeters, corroboratc
all these statements as to the preparations
that had been made by the Irish in the
of Main and Eleventh streets.
,varo ~ % onpnosad p 70 the Know Notb;n~s" who %
led these Irish to believe that the American
PROCESSION would be small and instiroted
Them to make an attack upon IL must allude
TO the demurogues of the Sag Nicht marty.
who have thus inaamed and aroused the nns,
sions of these poor wretches and misled them
to the commission of the horrid crimes which
began the riots in that neighborhood. This
IS the kew to the whole of the subseonent
proceedings. The poor miserable I,ish ,pere
led 10 beliere that the American marty was
small, that Americans were their enemics.and
hat they should treat them MS enemies. Itis
for us to charscterize such con.
lnet and the miscreants who coul6 be ouiltv
If il rs they deserve TO be characterized 4
discriminating public will, without anv sug.
restions from us. place the fiat of condemna.
ion upon all who are guilty of such consum-
nate yileness
Mr. ~ H. Lee states t'at mere was out
,''Ie VI no 's"'"s az .'e ''s"' warn Pois
'u.us .ne u'y ',u I: s,'"r '.o ioIe'enerS were
~, az n"y "'no o,''o" ''ol' '''o po"s'
h'I 'ne o'her ueP"nenlS concur IN .he'f
history VI 'he T conllllelcenlent ol lhe r'o''
pRIvmEeEp MEmBERs.-The State of
,Ioipe IL RESPONSIBLE for the following:
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