Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-08-18
LOUISVILLE RIOTS.
FULL PARTIcULARsI
From the Loui.riIle Jonrnal.


From the Louisville Journal.
We have taken pains TO ascertain the
correct version OF the origin Of the riois
on Monday. We have eonveDed with a
number OF persons who were Witnesses Of
the beginning Of the ARRAYS in both the |.
First and Eighth Wards. Wehsve been
we'll ass'uel that those scenes Of violence
we're altogether disconnected with the clee- I
tion. and that all this bioodshel aud des-
truction OF life and property were occas-
ioned in every instance 10y unprovOked aud
Imuplerous assaults OF Foreigners upon na-
ltive-born citizens. Ia every instance were
death has occurred, or blood has been split,
Americans were FIRST fired and cut, stabbed,
or beaten by foreigners.
There is yeiy strong ground for belief
that these attacks were not occasioned by
anything that happened on Monday, but
that all the arrangements were made for
the several days before hand-thai they
were premaditatcd and prcconcered.-
From several sources we have been inform
cd that the Catholic Irish in the neigh6or-
hool of Quinn's houses, on Main-stroet,
hal arranged for and contemplated an at
tack upon the American procession on
Saturday night, and were induced to defer
the execution of their murlerous designs
only bv their fears excited by the immense
crowd & unexpcctedcharacter of those who
composed the procession. Two ofthc Irish
women living in that neighborhood have
admitted that they were cognizant of this
design. y gentleman informs us that Oh
Monday he was warned by a German friend
a gnnsmith, not to approach the portion
of Main-strcct between Tenth and Twelfth
streets, during the day, as he was within the
previous ten days cleaned and put in order
quite two hundred guns for the lrishmcn
living in that ncighborhood. We have
been told that there we're several lrishmen
engaged in the riot who did not belong to
the city, but had been summoned here fol
the especial purpose of aiding their coun-
Itrymen in the outraGcs contemplated by
them on Saturday night and actually per-
petrated on Monday afternoon. 1t has also
been asccrtained beyond any doubt that
there was large quantity of.rms and am
Imnnition contained in the houses Quinr
which were destroyed. We have also beer
: Informed that threats had been made by
Fl Catholic Germans in the first ward thai
they would kill any German who ShouIt
dare to vote the American ticket on Mon
day and we learn from the statement o
one Of the men who were wounded upor
Shelby street, that this threat, in one in
stance at least, was actually carried int(
effect on Monday afternoon. We alst
know that in consequence Of these threat;
and Of information that those who had ut
tered them were assembled together tally
armed and bent upon hecxecution oIthel
bloody purpose, number of respectable
l orderly Germans who voted the American
, ticket were actually afraid to go to thclI
homes and did not go until yesterday
For more than week past we have re-
ceived intimations from different sources
!, that there was in the first Ward an organ
lied force Of Sag NIGHTS, and that every
effort was intended to be made by the leal
ers OF the American party to induce the
foreigners in this city to effect by forcewha
they might not be able to do by pcaceahly
, and quietly depositing their votes. Fol-
, weeks before the day Of election, most out
= {reseo~N, isa~~,~etor'y, rnd ;neendiary ap,
peals had been made to them in the speeches
: OF their party dcnagogues and through
their party press. They had been induced
to believe. what is not true, that the Amer
leans songht to take away or interfere witt
e some of their vested rights. They were
. thus wrought upon and their most violcn
basest passions inHamed almost to mad
ness, until murder and crime wee the con
Il sequences. Even fit were not true, tina
c as many believe and not unreasonahlv
n these foreigners We're instigated to an'
l. abettcd in these acts Of violence by other
who are not now known, but who ought t.
) have had more sense and patriotism, still
1t enough has been said and done by the lead
e crs and demagogues of the Sag Nicht
party to attach to them great part of tn
blame for these lamcntable and disgraccfu
= riots. We hope the Investigations Of tn
J. Coroner may bring to light all the fact
is and the causes and the antecodents Of thes
- occurrence in order that the terriblerespon
: sibility Of having incitel these acts of vic
g Ience my rest where it properly belongs
u, and that public condemnation may ia
CO upon the heads Of the really guilty.
,o 1t is certainly true that the election wa
=. passing off without more violence or dis
oi turbancc than almost nvariaJlc attende
nj the elections in which the old political pa
.h ties were contcstantr. The election ha
proceeded thus quietly until between 3 an
4 O'Clock in the First Ward, and unit
lie nearly o'clock in the Eighth Ward. RI
ne voting had slackened. There was at th'
Id time no difficulty for any one to gain at
o. mission to the polls. The foreigners WI
commenced the firing from the window
ne and behind gateways and fences were fit
to Iy armed and acted in concert, while Il
&C. Americans were unprcparcd and unsusp
,re cious Of any attack. They were unarr
ed and were obliged to go to their hom
III to arm themselves from this indiscrimi
Of ate slaughter. There is, indeed, not sha
"a ow of donbt that there would not ha
been any blood shed Or murders, or hon
burnings, or riots, if it had not been f
o' the wholesale and unprovoked killing al
nd younding of unollending native-born c
es, izcns by the bloody minded foreigners W
-, commenced this hellish work.
., Since writing the above, we have
'i'a ceived the following names: B. J. Fig
md Mr.. Hipdon. III. Wood, r. III. Snvd