The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-24
LOUISVILLE RIOTS-SWORN PROOF
OF THEIR FOREIGN ORIGIN.

OF THEIR FOREIGN ORIGIN.
We need make no APOLOGY for devoting
much Of our space 10 an .nrcdtint Of the ter
fible riots at LouisvIie, md their origin. A
monstrous Outrage has been perpetrated
against the public peace and the cause Of
civil liberty. tustice requires that the coun.
try should know who is responsible. and that
the guilty offenders who brought on the fray
by making tn first murderoas attack on
peaceable and unarmed citizens, should, with
their allies and inaigators in the work Of
lawless destruction, be- held to n rigid nc.
countabity at the bar Of public opinion.
The Louisville Journal Of Monday pub
fishes nfidavits and certificates from t,oenty.
five persons, many Of them eye witnesses of
the various scenes they describe, verifying
the statements we kave heretofore copied
from that print, to ,hSrheetthat these terri.
Bile riots were con61s&d' ty foreigners, a
considerable distance from the places of vo.
ting, that the first blood TINT WINS shed was
shed by foreigners, and that they had delib.
bra,ely prepared with fire arms before the day
of election, for deadly collision with the
Americans. We cannot conveniently find
room for this mass Of affidavts and certfi.
cntcs, which occupy about three columns in
that mammoth paper, but we extract the fol.
lowing synopsis of some of the points of
proof therein made out upon personal
knowledge md observation Of the wit.
nesscss Nashville Wing.
We have not room to give complete IN.
alysis of these affidavits, but It will be seen
that they nre for the most part the s,oorn
statements Of respectable and reliable men,
who were eye witnesses of the matters to
which they dispose. Some Of them are state.
ments upon oath Of foreigners and catholics,
who lived in the immediate ntighborhood of
the scene of the riot, and soms actually were
great sufferers thereby
From the testimony of Mrs Caroline Wall
! fwhose husband, an Irishman and Roman
Catholic. was in all probability among those
killed in Quinn's houses) it tappears for some
weeks previous to the election the Irish in
the neighborhood where the riot occurred had
been procuring arms and preparing for fi"rht
and that on the Saturday night of the Ameri.
can torch light procession she had heard these
lrishmen say that "they ,cere led 10 believe that
the procession would be small by those ,chC
opposed the Know Noihings. that she saw
many of them say that they intended 10 attach
the procession"
Joseph Hucker, n German and n Catholic
who lived in one of Quinn's houses (Which
werc burnedD says there were serenty.fue o,
one hundred Irishmen living in that row, anc
they had many visitors of their countrymen
TINT during two or three weeks preceding tn,
election he saw many Of them often will
pistols and guns, and heard one of them, ,wht
had pistols, say, on the Saturday before tn
election, that he was ready, that he had sceI
Quinn carry arms into his house, and tha
Quinn Ind insisted upon his (Hncksr's) vot
ing, although Quinn knew that he (1ucker
was not entitled to vote.
James F. Bickham saw the Irish, eight o
ten in number, on the morning of the election
moulding large quantity Of bullets in tn
cellar of one Of these houses, and on tn,
same morning, from 10 to 8 o'clock, Thos.W
Farell saw numbers of these lrismen, armed
with pistols and bowie knives passing in ant
out from the houses Of this row. These mel
had begged airs. Wallis husband to receiv,
arms in his house. The women had slept il
their clothes the previous night, so rs to b,
ready to leave upon the shortest notice, ant
Mrs. Ruby Dodd, and Elizabeth Dodd ant
Margaret Dodd, her daugeters, cOrrobOrat,
. all these statements rs to the preparations
that had been made by the Irish in tn
neighborhood of Main and Eleventh streets
It is plain to every one that "those VIII,
were opposed to the Know Nothings," whit
led these Irish to believe that the American
procession would be small and instigatet
them to make an attack upon it, must allud
to the demagogues of the Sag Ncht party
who have thus innamed and aroused the pms
sions Of these poor wretches and msled then
to the commission of the horrid crimes whic
began the riots in that neighborhood. Thi
is the key TO the whole Of the subsequen
proc eedings. The poor miserable Irish cer
led TO believe that the American party wa
! small, that Americans were their enemes,an
, that they should treat them rs enemies. II
unnecessary for us to charscterze such cor
duct and the miscreants who could he guilt
! of 1t MS they deserve to be characterized.
! discriminating public will, without any sul
4 gestiOns from US, place the fiat of condemns
ton upon all who are guilty of such consuu
mate vileness.
J Mr.. z. H. Lee states that there was bl
$ little or no fighting u, the eight ward pol
during the day and that the foreigners wei
not at any time driven from the polls.
}. All the other Opponents concur in the
: history Of the commencement of the riot.
! PRWILEoED MEmBERs.-The State
Maine is responsible for the following: