The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-16

REFLECTIONS UPON THE BLOODY RIOTS AM
NURDRRS AT LOUISVILLE.

| BY working wreakful vengeance on imagined Toes
I Come and confer With me Of murder and o. deathi
No gast otsoury Or Misty sole esers bloody murder con
| Of croreh for fsqr 6m ciH fnd 4 o4t---
! Welcome, dread fury, 10 my woetul house,
/ Could not all hell afford another desiiF
The hollow caves the lnrlng-paccs the vast obsctry
the dark abodcs of know-nohingism where corrupt ms1
meet at noon Of night for desperate and bloody pun.
poses have cast the unclaimed devil forth to prey upon the
1 peace and fatten on the blood Of men.
In pernsng the imperfect yet frghtu narrative of vO
lence at Louisville that put everlasting blot upon
the hitherto unsuled character Of Kentucky the heart
sclensl | am n citizen Of Kentucky and have been
wont 10 pride M self upon that fact have ielt secret
feeling at my heart and have cherished i with pleasure
that there was immunity, preroGaiye, that nghioly
belonged to her in virtue Of her character THAT without
arrogance she has been accustomed to receive marked a
tenton as just tribute due 10 her elevated position 70 the
ability the chvary the magnanimity OF her sons whether
native or adoped She was the home of Clay and John.
/ SON and that was enough for any Commonwealth
| line OF ilustrious that would have Nea WIN
Caesar in the field and with Cicero IN the senate had
raised her mp to proud pre-emnence Where enc Stood
| challenging the world But that race have passed
away-aR 10 he grqre gone dorm could auglt that
they had left behind, Of noble deeds and words Of
Immortality for human veal and human liberty gave
once noble Commonwealth from infamyl In yndca
ton of her past career and in support OF public liberty
| noble and valiant band fought with spartan yaior
against the insdous and secret foe nor could ey even
avert The great calamity OF her overthrow She has aen
aid now she lies full owthe just reproaeh OF the repub
lc false to her mother false TO the memory and teachings
Of those that made her gea Upon her sepulchre stated
murder now sits triumphant and is indicated by poF
ton Of an equally fallen and prostitute press in tins terrible
supremacy Of blood.
Daniel Boon found her the Hboody ground the battle
field where savage tribes met and sroye for mastery She
Is yet the boody ground but below the sdhs OF the
/ witt tribes
with hostile intent came 70 dspossess him OF his natural
and ndispuabe INTERCHANGEABLE hunting gronndsl Such
motives and such fears urged not the vandnl, savage
bordes that now inest her borders and war upon loyal
peaceful people of rights and common destiny
rghul shaers of all the joys of peace and wiling bearers
Of all The burdens and the of war; The councils Of
the aborgnes were convoked only for needu and prudent
purposes the tomahawk the knife and the aggot were
prepared only for defence and for subtle and sure IN
vader But the star chambers of the modern savage the
dark councils of the secret order without necessity and
without excuse suggest advise and pant for bloodor
the lives of nnocnding men, of defenccless women and
helpless chdren For this ovation, all the terrible pare
pernaia of prepared beforehand the cannon
The mushet the revolver and the bowie knife provided
for the fatal day. for the sacng Of the ethyl The 9Th of
August 1855 viii be memorable epoch in the future his
tory of kentucky la day when public liberty pros
trated and human life sacrificed by The most unprinciped
faction that oppressed any Commonwealth
In mCUltatlng upon inns ~ is HNtufel usW
think and to inquire where the responsibility for these 81
gantc crimes shall justly lie? Who shall be held answer
able before the tribunal Of correct public sentiment?
Who shall escape who shall be made to feel the verdict
Of an impartial world founded upon the evidence already
before it, and which must surely be given against the first
predetermined public murder that has ever dgaced any
city or State in the rcpubcf Who, above a shall stand
answerabe before that tribunal which and correcs
all the opinions and decisions Of this world2 Who shall
be able to escape detection avoid the penetrating gaze
of omniscient and onnpresent God before whom all
exposed and from whom the darkness of know
nothngism cannot secure its guilty yctimsl
Falsehood perjury, aud perdy may serve them here out
cannot avail them them ward off the just pnnsbmen,s
due towering crimes black with enormy and Redeemed
with innocent and unoending bloodl But who are guilty
and who responsible?
Shall we say that al the people of Kentucky party
and therefore, ohargeable with this ofence2 Not at all
Shall we say that the lcentious and demonnca mob even
alone the criminal the guilty party Not even they
They were but the instrument the mechanical perer,
moved and directed by others who dared not themselves
appear upon the stage but who secretly managed the
ropes and pues by which the screens we're moved tha
gave melancholy grandeur to the terrible tragedy oil
murder and of connagration Upon the know-nohing
organization throughout the country, ard especially IN
Kentucky rests the fearful responsibility portion Of
the pulpit too and unprncipled partisan press have
contributed largely to this state Of things and must neces
sarIy share proporonably the guilt A guilty press,
ql priesoodi Gracious God where shall security be
found when the pulpit and the press are in alliance with
such eemeits2
In the long and exciting train of circumstances that
have terminated fatally at Louisville the editor of the
Journal has acted conspicuous and important part
The daily rs well the weekly issues Of that sheet have
eemed with unmigaed alsehood and with most unwar-
rantable appeals to national prejudice and religious hate
urging to open violence and inevitable consequence
to murder and bIoodshed Indeed when consider all
the causes near and remote direct and indirect that
made TO operate il would be strange had different re-
suit characterized the proceedings Of the 9Th Of August
But whatever may be views as TO the details, or
however much may be swayed by passion by pre-
JUDGE, of the general result difference Of opinion
possibly exisall must agree and all will acknowledge
that was the natural fruit the legitimate offspring, Of
know-nothingsm that other consequence has fol-
lowed in lis disastrous since its advent into the
country that nothing better could be expected from an
organization whose very inception is crimc-whose food
and nourishment perdy and perjurywhose policy is
against all the settled principles Of the public
der well the private relations of the peoplewhose
aim is selfaggandzement and whose determination is
the overthrow of all the barriers that religion and law
have thrown around u.s. and by which have been pro-
ected in person and property and in their aiead
dcspom of power whose memorable supremacy
murder aud desolaon Cicero, during the period Of the
Noody and violent conspraoes of Catilue asked, " How
long, Oh Romans shall these things continue {" May
we not ssk-nay erelaim oh Americans americans