The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-21
THE LESSON TAUGHT BY THE LOUISVILLE
TRAGEDY.

have been PEACEFUL frugal and industrious people IL 10
doubted that much of the recent rapid growth and
prosperity Of that city due TO the settlement there of
these people To give the reader idea of the increase of
Louisville in population in ten years. it is only necessary
that in 1910 the number of souls in that city
22lo and in 1850 43l94 including slaves and that Of
this number in 1850 250T9 were American-born and 2
46l oregn-born the great majority of the latter being
Germans In thirty years Louisville has increased from
40l2 in 1920 to 49, 1874 in ls50beng ratio of 976 per
cent is sufficient to state these facts to show how much
every material interest has advanced in that city and how
and Indispensable element in its growth to great
has been the so-called foreign population Other
cities such St Louis Cincinnati, Milwaukee Chicago
&c, show still rapid advance than this St Louis had
but 450s Inhabitants in 1920 and 1850 in 1885, of which
number than oneha 49, 1897, born in foreign
countries mostly Germans. Milwaukee in 1910 numbered
100 inhabitants and in 1850 it to 2006l of which
1872 foregn-born, and mostly Germans. Cncn-
matt had 9642 inhabitants in 1920 and in 1850 1896 of
which 54 born in other countries and of these
than $4,000 Germans Chicago, in 1910, had
1883 inhabitants and in 1850 this number to 29963
than onehaf foreignborn The increase since 1860
has been incredible in Chicago and the other cities
named, make these extraordinary figures look
moderate.
1t is easy perceive how such violence that lately
manifested at Louisville will operate upon unofending
and industrious people, who feel and know that they
contributing materially TO the interests and the welfare
of those among whom they live When they that the
laws of city State poweress to protect them
their civil and political rights that they sfranchsed
for their religions that their property is liable to be de-
soyed by unlicensed mob that they sit upon
uries that they cannot obtain justice from courts uries
that they vote that the attempt to vote certain
produce riot and boodshed, in which neither their own
lives the lives of their families when they suffer
under these wrongs shall blame them if mpeled by
just Indignation and the controlling Of fpreserva
on they off in body from the in which they
have been prescribed seek other homes in other
munities? Bere Of all Others at least this right is
served to them We told that the adopted citizens Of
Louisville have already acted upon the emotions which the
sad tragedy of the 9th Of August had inspired and that
they moving off in great numbers to the fruitful fields
and smiling of the West We also told that the
events of that bloody day threaten the most serious
quences to the business interests Of the fair city which
has been disgraccd by mob Of know-nothng ends and
that the most serious apprchensons INDUCED that the
tide of progress which had been setting in favor of that
section of the Union win be disastrousy arrested Many
innocent will thus be compelled to bear the
quenoes Of misguided ntoerance and thus while the
adopted citizen forced to abandon his home and to seek
Gan asylum in other regions he will leave behind him
only his nprovoked enemies but friends who have vain
y endeavored protect him and his household goods
There something awful in the admontion which these
events furnish to the rejecting mind. We 60 back invo
UNFAIRLY to the prosecutions of the Israeltes by Pharaoh
the King Of Egypt, (which knew not Joseph The
Israetes multiplied too rapidly for the ntolerans of their
day. and grew great many of the of peace Hence
the command of Pharaoh was
Come on, let deal wisely with them, lest they multi
py and it to pass that when there faeth out any
war, they oin also, to enemies and fight against
and so get them up out OF the land"
They accordingly bitterly prosecuted and oppressed
They compelled labor like beasts Of burden and
the hardhearted king slaughtered their male rsborn
The voice of lamentaton heard through the land
Rachael weeping for her children refused be comorted
because they not" God called upon the oppressor
dess through his servant Moses. The oppressor replied
with scornful refusal I" Iknow Jehorah |" was his
blasphemous response and continued his prosecutions Of
the sraees Egypt visited with repeated for
the evil deeds of her yran who refused abandon his
cruelties until the decree carried into effect by (which
the Angel of the Lord went forth at midnight and de-
stroyed the frs-born Of every Egyptian family Then
came Inc exodus OF the prosecuted and the downrodden
As the Bible commentator (Hal) remarks "Old Jacobs
sepsnty uhich he brought docn Egypt in spite
Of their bondage and 6loodshed go forth sin hundred
thousand men, besides children" And mark the appo-
site eloquence of this which follows: The world we'll
mended with Israel since he went with his staff and
his scrip Jordan Tyranny is too reak ,cAen God
bids increase and multiply Gods people hare stayed like
sdpes they 90 array like conqueror NTH The spoil Of those
that hate he armed for security, and mealhyor mamie
nance When the despot pursues the fugitives he is
ovcrwhelmed he and his myrads in the stormy pillows
of that which opened to let the Israees pass
dry-shod and undefed.
But those ugives who fly from the city Of Louisville
do not like fathers who departed from the Old World
for the New like the Israeitcs go to foreign land
Like the original settlers Of the SOIL they their backs
upon intolerance and bgoy and bloodshed and like these
settlers they their enemy Inundated and downtrod
dem but they do go into strange lands They pass
to their friends and their brothers They guided
the Israetes guided, "by pillar of cloud and pill
lar of freby the sympahies Of great people, and by
the invincible principles of democracy Thank Heaven
there open to these prosecuted citizens thousands Of
hearts The beautiful cities Of the West beckon
them to their liberal laws and their hospabe homes
The broad praires beginning to resound with the hum
of civilization invite them and their posterity long
lives Of happiness and of equality Let them not be