New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-22
From the Louisville Journal, of the 18th inst,
we copy the following article, and bespeak for
H. a careful perusal:

Numerous adavits and certificates in relation to the
riots the 9th inst have been laid before read
Numerous others Of the same character in
possession but necessity for making
Them The proof abundant 1t satisfies every rational
mind 1t accumulated until it is overwhelming. Any
man who reads it and still presnds think that the dis
urbanees Monday of last not the especial
of the foreign born population must be either hope
lsssly dishonest incuraby insane. His mind
as peryious the Light Of evidence block ef wood
is to the rays OF the sun.
No man could have observed the manifestations of the
feelings Of the American and the parties
for some months past without seeing and understanding
at which of the two most likely to violent
disturbances the day of the election All along, the
contrast between the two parties has been most striking
The malignity of the Sag NIGHTS or anti-Americans
against the Americans has been OPEN loud bitter and M
rocious Probably since the existence of the coun
try there been any other party that
ved and calumniated and cursed and insulted its po-
tical opponents in newspapers, in public speeches. and
In the private intercourse of society the
party has habituay done. Members Of that party
in their daily communion with gentlemen, have not
been able or have been willing to repress good
manners sake, the feelings of wrath and vengeance
raging in their souls. On the contrary THE members of
the American party have been cain ana smiling and
seeking to obtrude their opinions upon others and
TOO often perhaps submitting TO INDIGENOUS language
which they be aimed nj them by their opponents
Now we repeat that rational person have observed
remarkable contrast between the parties all must
have observed it, without deep and inevitable convic
ton that if violent collision the day of the election
take place. the anti American party must be the
one from which it would come.
be reposed in the testimony Of and women if
solemn assertions and oaths of respectable
witnesses not lie the riots did originate with the
American party and much preconcerted and
determined by that party as ever battle was by
commanding general. OF course little crowding
and few istfghts, which always takes place here on
election days forekuown by both partes but the
Germans the Irish, acting doubt at the nstgation
unprinciped and hendke native born traitors and
ncendaries prepared themselves with and hun
dreds of firearms NOT to make or resist aggression at the
polls but shoot down American citizens from barrc&ded
houses at points remote from the places OF voting The
difficulties at the polls amounted to little nothing
They absolutely nothing in comparison with whal
had occurred previous occasions OF similar character
More said by the anti-Amercans about the disturb
ances at the Atn Ward polls shan at any other we
do not doubt THAI instances, the Americans there
wrong prominent gentiemsn Of that ward who
voted the ut'AmeEcan ticket, aud who has been highly
compmentsd by Of the antAmerican papers for his
preserve the peace there informs that the
first violence SO fur as he knows vas blow given by
Ishuan American quietly challenging his right
TO vote.
Passing over however all such comparative trines as
the usual crowdings ebowngs, and blows the polls in
but never considered Justification proVoca-
tion Of blood must beg leave public at
tention upon the great and important fact fact
tablished eoncusyely as any TACT earth
established that, up to the moment when the German
shootngs from the houses 10 the lower ward began, the
Streets which the discharges took place. quiet
as any street in the city is at this moment
at time when there were no fghtings Wranglings
disputes in the street, when there the slightest
parent symptom Of disturbance, of excitement
when men aud women passing to and fro as upon
ordinary occasions without the least suspicion of danger
destructive foreign fire opened from the houses
upon unofending native citizens That the streets
thus quiet in the upper part of the city when the deadly
fire frat resounded from the German houses and in the
lower part Of the city when it first resouned from the
Irish houses ia shown by the adayts already given and
can be established BY score Of others II necessary In
each extremity Of the city the fash and the Of fire.
was like burst from cloud amid the hush
of The elements ANY allegation that all this was done
tnrQy nj and
that done simply becsuse the foreigners, at polls
remote from the points of deadly ASSAULT could not vote
sst enough is too absurd to impose upon any man wor
ny Of notice.
In the upper part of the city at least twenty and
little boy have already stated and proved
hot in the peaceful streets and welterng in their
blood before solitary weapon raised against the
,eraors of the carnage and in the lower part OF the
ty two shot dead the body OF each being
GRATED by BALLS and several wound
I'd in the Streets till then undisturbed before weapon
poised against the aesassins editors, with such
acts before them facts established conclusivey hu
nan testimony ia capable OF establishing anything
Pretend to hold the members of the American party
ponsbis for the bloodshed that stained the of
louisville the day Of the election and will long stain
NAME they deserve the and execrston of all
mankind.