The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-08-16
THE QUESTION sETTLEDM
ny Testimony of Foreigners and Cath
OIics!!!

OIics!!!
We have felt warm interest in having
the question of the origin of the Louisville
riots settled, so that the public might form
a definite and we'll founded opinion as to
whether the foreign born or the natives were
the apqressors in the Louisville riots We
have felt warmer interest from the fact,
that having been at Louisville and a close
observer during the time of these riots, we
returned home and gave our own Impressions,
formed from observation and thorough inquiry
of the direct causes OF these riots. We laid
the whole blame upon the foreign born. AL
though our account thus formed and express
ed, agreed entirely with the Louisville Jour-
nails, and with dispatches sent over the
country from Louisville by Democratic re-
porter, and with the observations OF one OF
our own most respectable citizens who was
also at Louisville at the time, yet the Old
Line Press of Louisville have just as warmly
endeavored to make out Americans the ag-
gressors, thus calling those falsi6ers who in
timate1 the contrary. We therefore have
felt and we do feel an interest in conviuc-
ing the public of what we ourselves believe
and knoU ON this subject, and in proving
these Old Line editors base talsitiers OF facts
and slanderers of American citizens. We
feel an interest in throwing from thea merican
party, or from any portion oft, the stigma
sought by its opponents to be fixed upon it 4,
of having cooly murdered foreign born men
without cause or provo cation. Facts ELECTED
by the Louisville City Court, and the athda-
Wits of respectable persons published in the
Journal, have happily placed it in our power
to prove the statements as to the origin OF
these riots made by us on our return from
Louisville, entirely correct. That the foreign
ers were the aggressors, and that they had
actually been for days and weeks preparing
arms, ammunition, &c., not for mere dJenc
alone, but to attack Americans, is proved by
the sloorn testimony Of foreigners and Cath
oLics. Without further Introductory we can
proceed to lay before our readers me e0tdsace
to prove the foreigners were the aggressors
in the Louisville riots, taking up first the 9th
; ward riot, as it was there nearly all the de-
> struction of life occurred; We ask the in!
diligence of readers for occupying so much
> space with this subject, but we are deter
mined to protect our own veracity, and t.
expose the nfamy of the Anti.Americar
press:
Caroline Wall, wife Of John Wall, on oatl
e says: She is an lrishwoman; her husband
l. is an Irishman, and Roman Catholic. o.
:. the evening of the 9th inst, about O'Clock
. was going home from the grocery of Mr.
Brown, on Tenth and Market streets, Louis
= vile, passing down Eleventh street to Main
J. when reached Main street, at Eleventh,
q heard the report of firearms, and looked VI
a Main where it came from, and saw mai
fall near Chapel street, and great man.
y shots were fired in quick succession from tn
" north side of Main street, direct toward
lie Chapel. The man who was shot and fell
=. learned had just come out of O'Connell'
" grocery on the corner of Main and Chape
AZ in company with q man named Dougherty
m Rhodes died in few moments, as | learne
n. .here. There vas no crowd about at tn
~ time, and but very few people, and no disturb
:, ance, save that caused by the shooting.-
I'll Rhodes was not disturbing any one whe
d. shot, that know of. | saw the shots fire
he from the windows of Quinn's row. thin
A. Rhodes had carpet-bag in his hand whe
:, shot. did not know him, but was ntorme
d. on inquiry that his name was Rhodes
lis Dougherly was also shot moment or tw
after.
"a There were a great many Irishmen
Quinn's row, some of whom were relation
~ of my husband, and they were very often tt
w gether. For some weeks previous to th
election OF the 9th of August, 1855, the
as Cnot my husband) were preparing for figt
ms and procured and had many arms, pisto
Te and guns; and on Saturday night before tn
election, saw many of them with arms, an
they had resolved, heard them say so,
W attack the procession, but it turned out, q
NC they afterwards told my husband, to be to
nd numerous, and so they let it pass. The
-. had Teen led 10 believe the procession would
small BY THOSE WHO OPPOSED THE Knew NJ
&c THINGS; this heard them say. | saw man
h of them with arms six or eight days befor
ere the last election, and they said they wer
ire ready for it.
- have not seen my husband since Nor
- day last, nor heard of him. fear he wa
ms finally induced to join them in Quinn's ROW
en- They had begged him to receive arms in h
ice house, but he declined. We did not live
- Quinn's row. her
CARoLINES WALL.
Michael O'Connell, on oath, says: r
m. side ON the corner of Chapel and Mainstreel
Il "A th1. fnra .