Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-14
The Louisville Riot I,

,ien, We law before them this morning the state
men, Of the Louisville Democrat The Demo.
crafts ARTICLES. as matter OF course, filed with
,hasc and decentralization OF the Know Nothings
but We beg esr readers to note the fact. that
the main circumstances OF the riot announo.
ed first by telegraph and afterwards by the jour
nal are not denied by the Democratic organ.--
That the foreigners of Louisville commenced the
work of disorder aud bleedshed, Is fact that
seems to admit of no sort cf dispute.
we alleged in our paper Of Saturday that these
riots were the fruits Of the violent abuse and de-
nuneiatiou which the Democratic papers are IN
the habit of heaping upon the Know Nothing
Marty. and which have taught the ignorant aud
raiianly foreigner to believe that the Know Moth.
iurs are sat of OUTLAWS aud traitors who ought
TO be exterminaied ant whose persons may be
outraged viii. impnnity. For this the Lynch
burg Republican takes US 10 task in its issue Of
Yesterday. and challenges US to the proof in the
following terms.
New we should like TO see the Pnginian point
gu. the paper or, the paragraph ia any paper
which has asserted any such doctrine or lnoulca-
ted any such sentiment. For ourselves. We de-
nv that tie peneeratio press have over done any
such thing, and we complain of our neighhor for
GLOWING his passionate Indignation. at what we
all must regret and denounee, 10 hurry him into
the indiseriminate and unjust charge which We
have % Isedout.
Nowit Is not our practice to file away and
preserve all the sitoperntion which our Demo
cratic exchanges proiusely shower upon the
American party. The article is So abundant in
quantity that even admitting it's valuable quality,
we should, hardly ,th,9h it worth our while tn
treasure it up IN our sanetum. Consequently
We are unable ON so short notice TO answer the
challenge of our contemporary as fully as we
would have wished; nevertheless we have ammu-
milton enough for one day. The Republican
calls on us to point on, the paper or paragraph
which has asserted any such doctrine or inculea-
ted any such sentiment as we ascribed to the
Democratic press. In reply we point out
the Washington Union as ono of the papers
which has done the thing Of which we COM
plain and we invite the Republicans attention to
tlc-iollowing paragraph from recent number
Of that paper
WHEN WE DEAL WITH KNOW, MOTH
INGS. WE DEAL WITH OUTLAWS OFFS
GETTY AS WELL AS OF PARTY; OF MEN
Upon WHOM THE BAN HAS BEEN PLAC.
ED BY EVERY SINCERE CHRISTIAN AS
WELLOAS EVERY TRUE PATRIOT. The
sympathetic friends of the arragned burglar ARE
no donbt shocked ut the plain manner in which
his skulking yillainy is spoken of by the prose.
cutting officer, and We presume that there arc
men at this day WHO are ofopinion that the mem
ory of Benedict Arnold should be treated with
tenderness. and the acts Of the Hartford Con-
vention spoken of with extreme caution and
courtesy"
We have lighted upon the above paragraph
this morning accidentally, and We can our
readers that in bitterness and erocity it is pref
ty fair sample Of what The Union is in the habit
of saying every day about the Know Notbings.
We venture to assert that scarcely one number
of that journal has been ISSUED in the last six
weeks which did not contain charges of treason,
incendiaryism. perjury, and almost every other
species of villany against the Know Nothing
order. Every reader Of tho Union will bear us
out in this assertion.
The Union is the central, the national organ of
the great democratic party. tits also the organ
of the government at Washington, and II exerts
undoubtedly more widely extended influence
than any other newspaper in the United States.
The democratic press, throughout the country,
with but few exceptions, take their cue from it,
in particular, have been extensively copied in our
democratic exchanges. We submit, therefore.
that when democratic newspaper occupying
this elevated and Influential position, and speak
ing presumptiyely by the authority of the ad-
ministration, declares that the Know Nothing-
are not only politically but socially iars, and
that the ban Of epery true christian and patriot
has been piacsd upon tlsm,t il no wonder tina, the
ignorant foreign population Of our large cities
should deem themselves authorized to wage
var VI determination against this obnoxious
party and 10 commit any outrages upon them.
which their own brutal instincts may dictate. If
KNOW No:bings are the outlaws Of society,"
tteu unqrsstionabie they ought TO be hung. shot
or lynchsd. The foreigners OF Louisville no
loabt took this view 81 the subject.
The democratic papers of Virginia have, we
think, gone 10 q most reprehensible length in
their denuuoiations of the American party, but
we cheerfully acquit them Of ever having endors-
ed the vile vituperation of the Washington
Union. But democratic journals ia the North
ern and Western States have pretty closely fol-
lowed the example of the Executive organ at the
Federal metropolis, and we repeat it. as our de-
iiberste and Conscientious conviction that tho
late election riots in LOUISVILLE are attributable in
a great measure. to the inaammatory and de-
nunciatory strain of remarks which the demo-
cratic press of the country habitually employ in
respect to the Know Nothing party.
From the Louisville Democrat
The election during yesterday, was, as near as
could be, all one sided, the most unfair means
being resosted to by the know nothings to crowd
other voters FROM the polls.
In the first ward the most intense excitement
prevailed for some time, and thepos were sur
rounded by large crowd. Whenever a know
nothing voter approached the crowd he was
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