The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-08-16
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 10, 1856.
More about the Louisville Riots-sworn Procf OF
their Foreign origin.

their Foreign origin.
We need make no apology for devoting
much of our space to an account of the ter
rible riots at Louisville, and their origin. A
nonstrous outrage has been perpetrated against
the public peace and the cause of civil liberty.
Justice requires that the country should know
who is responsible, and that the guilty offend
ers who brought on the fray by making the
first murderous attack on peaceable and IN.
armed citizens, should, with their allies and
instigators in the work of lawless destruction,
be held to a rigid accountability at the bar of
public opinion.
The Louisville Journal of Monday publishes
sfidavits and certificates from twenty-five per-
sons, many of them eyewitness Of the vari-
Gus scenes they describe, verifying the state
ments we have heretofore copied from that
print, to the effect that these terrible riots
were commenced by foreigners, a considerable
distance from the places of voting, that the
first blood that was shed was shed by foreign
ers, and that they had deliberately prepared
with firearms before the day Of election, for
deadly collision with the Americans. We
cannot conveniently find room for this mass
of affidavits and certificates, which occupy
about three columns in that mammoth paper,
but we extract the following synopsis of some
OF the points of proof therein made out upon
personal knowledge and observation of the
witnesses:
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these afidavits, but il will be seen that they are
for the most part the statements OF respect
able and reliable men, who eye witnesses OF the
matters to which they dispose. Some OF them are
statements 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 Roman Catholic, was
In all probability among those killed in Quinns
houses), it appears for some weeks previous to the
election the Irish in the neighborhOod where the IL
OF occurred had been procuring arms and preparing
for a fight and that on the Saturday night of the
American torch light procession she bad heard
these Irishmen say that 'tIey mere led TO 6elieOe
that the procession would be small By those Dho
opposed the Kn0W No,hiitgS, that she saw many OF
then with arms, and heard them say that hey
inscndcd to attack The procession"
Joseph Hucker, a German and a Catholic, who
lived in one of Qunns houses (which were burned6
says there were serenity iUe or one hundred Irish
men living in that row, aud they had many visitors
of their countrymen, that during two or three
weeks preceding the election he saw many OF them
often with pistols and guns and heard one OF them,
who had several pistols, say, on the Saturday be-
fore the election, that he was ready, that he had
seen Quinn carry arms into his house, and that
Quinn had insisted upon his (Hucker's) voting, al
though Quinn knew that he (Hucker) was not
entitled TO q vote.
James +. Bickham saw the Irish, eight or ten in
number, on the morning of the election, moulding
a large quantity of bullets in the cellar of one Of
these houses and on the same morning, from 10 TO
O'Clock, Thos W. Flarel saw numbers of these
Irishmen, armed with pistols and bowie-knives,
passing in and 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 hrs. Ruby |
Dodd, and Elizabeth DOdd and Margaret Dodd her |
daughters corroborate all these statements as TO |
the preparations that had been made by the Irish |
in the neghborhood of Main and Eleventh streets.
1t is plain to every one that 'thOse who we're
opposed to the Know Nothings," who led these
Irish to believe that the American procession
would be small & nstigate6 them to make an attack
upon il, must allude to the demagogues OF the Sag
NIGHT party, who have thus inhamed and aroused
the passions of these poor wretchesand mised them
20 the commission of the horrid crimes which be-
gan the riots in that neighborhood This is the key
10 the whole of the subsequent proceedings. The
poor miserable Irish were led 10 beliere that the
American party small that Americans were
their enemies, and that they should treat them as
enemies. II is unnecessary for us to characterize
such conduct and the miscreants who could be
guilty OF it a. they deserve TO be characterized.
discriminating public will without any suggestions
from us, place the fat Of condemnation upon oil
who are guilty Of such consummate vileness.
Mr. r. H. Lee states that there was but little or
no fighting at the eighth ward polls during the day
aud that the foreigners not at any time driven
IRON the polls.
All the other Opponents concur in their history
Of the commencement OF the riot
1.-THE proofs in reference to the riot in the First
Ward are promised in the Journal Of the following
day.