New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-21

LogIsvILLE Ri OTIS.

We have read very carefully all that mas
been published regarding the origin and pro-
eress Of the late riots in Louisville. We have
done SO as pnblio journalists, determined 70
place the blame where it property belongs re-
CARELESS on whom it rests We aware 'na''
from some inexplicable reason gu. MensusAy
friends can get up riot without nuon ui'iA0pn.y
mn ,,,aro are easily VI orked up. The
natives Of the dark and oioony gfouno are
naturally inaammable, easily ekasperated' and
prone to resent injury, come from what quarter
|. nav. When their blood is up, reason is apt
N lose it's sway, and excesses are committed Of
which they never dreamed.
Our readers will remember the Ward riot in
that city, when distinguished citizens were
burnt in efhgy, and the dwelling of noble
hearted and chivalrous native Of the State was
fired, many valuables destroyed, and his family
driven into the streets Our readers will also
remember the tone Of the Louisville Courier, as
well as the Democrat, before and after that
terrible somehow those papers urged on the
rioters, and apparently gloated over the destruc-
ton they wrought Their inoendiary appeals to
hired bands of ruf6ans and vagabonds were the
legitimate cause Of that riot. They "sowed the
| wind and reaped the whirlwind,'' and to their
fell auspices at that period, may be traced all
of the bloody scenes which have followed each
other in rapid succession since, and done so
much to tarnish the fair reputation Of that
beautiful city. The riots at the May election,
as well as those at the August election, are the
natural sequences Of the first, which they ini-
tiated and set to work, .-...-.... W.
Like hell broth, to boil and bubble!"
In looking over our files OF the Courier, we
find in its issue Of the It'll May an article on the
riots of the previous day, from which We quote
the following:
wEsry in the day In tho Second Ward 1t impossible
for nm American voter to reach tho POLLS completely
had the anti Americans taken possession OF them.
hilv who business in the
center 81 the city but that ward informs that
he WAS several times repused from the polls by Germans
and that until the police officers came and regulated
the matter, could be or any other American vote.
1t then goes on to say that the same scenes
occurred in other portions Of the city. Early
in the morning strong effort was made by the
6 Sag NIGHTS" party to take possession Of the
polls in the First Ward, but they were repulsed
by the Americans The Cou rier says:
The foreign population in numbers but
Accordingly lat ter attempted to both vote and tight
coneedng the time to foreigners the like right
far they could exercise 1T But became wearsome
and the whole programme changed fighting became sub
stnted voting In this the Americans of course OBJ
tained the upper handn
The Courier was then the organ par ercel-
ience of the American party, and while it re-
grstted the ontrages Of that day it entirely
exonerates that party. Then the American
party was a great and respectable parity
then SO the spirit and genius OF the party was at
war with such acts Wequote further from
the Courier of the 7th May &5@
To hold however, great and respectable party
sponsibe the sets Of few Of its members, is both
foolish unjust. The parties to these ourages acted
without authorywere mot incied BY any organization
and of their conduct is alone ehargabe them
their individual capacity Nothing could be absurd
than attempt to fasten upon The American party the
crminaty that certainly attaches to much that was
the First Ward polls The spirit and genius of
the party is with such actthe purity Of tine bal
lot box the exercise Of the right Of suffrage by those
whose right 1t s and the establishment OF deoenoy
order in the place OF rotous proceedings at elections be-
ing some Of its great cardinal features"
The tone of the Courier has changed since
May. "a change has come over the spirit of
its dream" The American party short time
since committed grieyous fault-an unpardon-
able sin in selecting the journal instead of the
Courier as the organ Of the party in the State
of Kentucky, and the Courier forthwith opened
upon that party its ss walls Of wrath y and it's
ssbostles of Spleen 1t now ranks among its
bitterest opponents and abonnds in denunoiation
Of the most indicative character. In its issue
of the 14th inst, speaking of the American
party, which on the 7th May it called a "great
and respectable party it says:
an,,Id for r,nr, ant yost N, sorro,r =
which when the mind the crime
and heretofore almost unheard-of vlanes which attach
the mob of Monday the 9th oil August various little
incidents are developed from time to time which are cal
oulated to place Sans men Id very ludierous light
before appreciative world Such ranspirad
here Monday usually characterized by or less
of bravery gallanry but cannot even one
isolated sct of gaanty the part of the sggessors cal
culated excite admiration III christian or pirate
There is norelief from the general perfdy vlany and
eowardce which marked the footsteps the rioters from
thehour ut which they commenced heir aboea plot Of
morning, Through their arson srcenies and murders
during the day, to the consummaton what seemed to
be their grand design the eliminating point of all their
hopesthe burning of the Tmeaofics sign Such mob
as the In question command respect sslfre
apect Of the cheapest entiments-s altogether
lost and the cowardy knayss who participated actively
in the outrages Monday and Monday night stand out
alone in their perdy spt Of everything which renders
life tolerable save perhaps rehnans Of the few hundred
dollars and certain groceries and vauabes of which they
pundered their poor defensees vctims under the re-
freshing motto Of ruling .4me,ica.n
What reliance can be placed in the state
ments Of a journal that 30 utterly ignores every
thing, except it tends to the advancement of the
party with which it temporarily cohabitsi All
the testimony which has been taken incontro-
yertibly establishes the fact, that the first blood
was shed by the foreigners-that the design to
take possession Of the polls by the foreign born
population was deliberate, preconeeiyed act.