The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-04-18
The CInciiinati Riot.

The Cincinnati Riot.
Know Nothing papers all over the coun-
try, are busily engaged in misrepresenting
the cause and character of the recent dis
graceful riot at Cincinnati They falsely
{, assert that the difficulty was begun BY Ger
mans, ahd that all blame is directly charga-
BILE to the foreign vote. The utter falsehood
of such statements must be apparent to-
/, every man who has given any attention to
4 the history of the affair.
"a We gave last week, extracts from the
Cincinnati Commercial, paper which has
always opposed the Democracy. The fol-
lowing is from the Pittsburgh Gazette, one
of the leading Whig papers Of the country.
,ats editor can certainly have no motive to
uiislead, and the account may be regarded
as impartial and correct. We ask for it a
candid perusai by men of ell parties:
The. CINCINNATI Row.--As we expected,
the X. N. papers, out of Cincinnati. are en-
deayoring to palate and excuse the lawless-
ness, rowdyism and brutality Of their Gin
cinnat brethren, with apocryphal stories Of
the immenseproyoca theyreceive. These
papers see that their cause is sure to suffer
from such manifestations, unless they can
abe.iustifietf Ur sthtowa upon other shoulders;
and hence tho faithful and the credulous are
.treated'to the most awful cock-and-bull sto-
,ries, which are expected to pass for gospel,
now and hereafter. A paper now before
tis, which once had a deservedly high char
acter and which ought to be ashamed to be
found at such disreputable work, inficts up
on it's readers the annexed extravaganza as
a veritable record of facts:
v sand how did this outrage happen! 1t
was brought about in this wise: In two wards
tof Cincinnati the Germans and Irish swore
that no American should cast his vote, and
with clubs, btickbats and paving stones,
they drove every native from the polls
/ Their ballots were then deposited as thick
fas hail. but none save the Locofoco Btr8peS
even did these desperate Foreigners throw
votes in By the handfil until the ballots far
outtiurnbered the votes of the ward. Smart
ing under such wrongs, brutally beaten and
driven from the ground, seeing the political
power of great city thus, by brute force
and illegal votes. placed in the hands of op-
ponents, nothing was more natural than that
a rally of the Native Americans should in
turn drive the bullies from the ground. In
this melee the ballot-boxes were destroyed
BY whom, 1t does not appear, and ii matters
not"
1t would be employing too light word to
say simply that this is false. II is worse--s
wantot, fabrication. from beginning to end
and got up for the simple purpose ofdeceiv,
ing and deldding. We have carefully perus
ed the Cincinnati papets ever since the out
break. and we can find nothing there Il
Justify these wholesale assertions. Th'
Gazette, OF that city, which supported tht
KIN. ticket and sympathizes with the party
distinctly admits that the rioters were K
Ms, and that they were the destroyers Q
the ballot-boxes; and the only palliation !
offers is that reports were in circulation "tha
the Germans had obtained possession of tn
Eleventh Ward and were preventing Ameri
cans from voting" 1t does not pretend T.
say that these reports were true or had an.
Foundation whatever, but indicates the re
verse: it only says that such reports wer'
circulated, and that they were calculated t
inAame the passions of weak, wicked AM
ignorant men.
No evidence has yet been offered tina
I anything was amiss at the Eleventh Ware
polls until the row commenced. The Ware
Is large and mainly settled with Germans
and the fact that they were polling heav!
lalthough legaD vote against the X. N. tick
et was toe moving cause OF the riot Int
allegations of bad treatment to American
were mere electioneering tricks got up t
excite popular ferment in the hope that
would lead Gas It did, to the destruction o
the ballet-box. The same trick was attemP
ted in this city last winter, but without avail
As to the Twelfth Ward. in which the bal
lot-box was destroyed by X. N. mob, it il
notorious thar the Judges and officers OF tn
election were all X. Ne. but one, and tina
they had full control Of the whole natter
II any fraud was perpetrated It was by them
They utterly deny that there was any illega
voting, aud characterize as false the state
ment that the ba,lot-box contained NOR
votes than there were names on the tai
list. There, as in the Twelfth Ward. th
sole motive for the rufianism practised wa
that the ward gave avery heavy majoEit
against Know Nothingism.
The attempt to escape from the effect
\ these tdamning facts by interpolating maj
tsfactufed history of wrongs and outrages :
Foreigners that were never practised, and II
kindred effort to elevate the silly creatu
who met his death in his career OF folly
the dignity Of martw in behalf Of Ame'
cnnism, betray q purpose TO dcbauch ana 9
Inde the public mind which is as criminal
the outrages IL seeks to palliate or smoo
over. In these days Of enlightenment, no
y e1er. il Is too much to undertake to bra
ut,blic sentiment with face Of falsehof
IS matter how brazen. Pitisburgh Gszst
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