The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-08-22

and Eighth Wards. We are confident that
these riots were not occasiored by anything
that happened at any Of the several voting
places. The election throughout the citv,
as far as we can learn. had passed of with
unusual quiet, with the exception Of bru-
tai outrage in the First Ward, of which we
shall speak presently, and some fighting at
at the Eighth Ward polls, in which no one
was much hurt. -. .....l
The whole vote Of TIE city was but 4,85i,
showing that some 1000 or 5000 votes
were not polled! In the First Ward the
vote was Know-Nothing 384, Democrat
Ill, showing in that ward alone some 100
votes were excluded. In the Second Ward,
where there is a Democratic majority, the
vote shows $50 Know. .Nothings to 62 DEM
ocrats.
In the First Ward difficulty occurred.
which the Journal denominates a "brutal
outrage" and thus describes;
"In the First Ward, about nine o'clock
in the morning, while the election was pro-
ceeding quietly at the polls, Mr.. Geo.
Burge, respectable and quiet American
citizen, was brutallv assaulted by a party
of Trishmen on Jackson street, between JEFF
ferson and Greene, without having given
any provocation. He was knocked down
and horribly beaten with stones and clubs.
He attempted to escape from the iends by
whom he was attacked, and ran into the
alley Of an adjoining house, where he was
followed by his blood thirsty assailants, and
cut, stabbed, and beaten until he was sup
posed to be dead, when one Of these inhu.
man brutes deliberately opened his knife
and .. oceeded o cut the throat Of the mur-
dered man. When this act Of violence was
made known. party OF Americans started
in pursuit Of the murderers. who were SUBJ
sequently arrested, and lodged in Jail by the
Mayor and City Marshal
Would you believe it, this man is still
live and getting well, after the Journal muir
dered him and cut his throat? AID yet it
is so!
This is ma gniGed, as will be seen by re.
ferring to the report of the Evening Bulle-
tin, (the afternoon edition Of the Journal,
published the previous afternoon, and re-
published in the parallel column of the Jour
nal, which the writer Of the exaggerated
statement could not have seen or been cog
nizant Of when he put on his magnifying
glasses:
"On Hancock-street, man named
George Birch or Burks was attacked by a
number Of Irishmen, and was dangerously
injured. 1t is feared that his skull is bro
ken. The Irishman who lnhic.ed the blow
was arrested"
The report Of the Bulletin was made when
it was not deemed necessary, and the re-
porter was not interested to make more Out
of it than to state simple fact. Whether
on Hancock or Jackson, it was not very dis,
tant from the place Of voting. the latter not
more than square; and the polls show
that there was great disparity in numbers
out between the Americans and foreigners.
and that the latter were little likely. either
singly or in squad. to assail any one un-
provoked.
But we have extended this article to a
greater length than we intended, and close
it without saying a tiIhe of what might be
said to show that the aggressions we're pre-
determined, and that mob violence and the
ruthless assaults and destruction Of proper
ty originated in bad counsel and the inaam-
matory appeals Of the Journal itself. Il
was boasted that the Know Nothing Mayor
had taken every precaution to secure peace,
full voting, and that the K. n. party itsell
had organized a secret police to enforce it.
From all we can learn, read, hear and know
the determination was to defy law. and the
investigations, it is apprehended and be-
lieve, will show that they were prepared t.
carry it out. II our language seems harsh
it is not strong enough to convey our in
dignation; and we deeply regret that Louis
vile should have given herself stab. {
shock from which she will not soon recover
Is it possible that in a population ofseyenty
thousand she has less than four thousand
FIVE hundred voters?
The foregoing was written for yester
days paper. but was unayoidably deferred
although nearly all in type. 1t but family
speaks the abhorreuce we feel for the per
petrators Of the outrage-its instigators anc
apologists. The Louisville Journa! labor.
hard to relieve itself from the odium II ha'
incurred. and hypocritically denounces tn
authors Of the tragedy. II insists that th'
'foreigners" did commence the blood.
work, thing not at all probable. althougl
it may easily be imagined that men in thei
situation might be goaded to madness. hav
ing their dearest rights and privileges wres
ted from them by assassins and bravos.--
The Journal says: " @aeas q S"4
"Ihere Is, indeed, not shadow of
doubt that there would not have been an
bloodshed, or murders, or house burnings
or riots, il it had not been for the awholesal,
and unproyoked killing and wounding Q
unoffending nativeb born American citizen
by the bloody minded foreigners, who com
! uienced this helish work" p1Vi ss.at
That men will be found ready TO swea
that the poor. battered. manned. mutilate
and murdered Irish and Germans, in ever
case, we're tee originators and assailants.