Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-19
Tremendous Falsehoods and Misrep.
reservations about our Election.


Owing TO the rascally conduct Of the tele-
graphic operator here in sending of utterly
false accounts in regard 10 our election and the
riots that followed, the press at a distance in
dulge in the most awful MISREPRESENTATION
and falsehoOds respecting both.
/ The Washington CITY Or0an. a Know
Nothing sheet AT the seat of Government.
holds the following language
"Our success has been equally gratifying al
the West. Cleveland, Columbus and other
towns in Ohio have nobly sustained the prin-
ciples of the American party. IN Cincifimati
The result IS dOuJtfia, olOing 20 he disgraoefI
conduct Of portion Of the foreign population,
'0tO, by force 4 arms, prevented american clti-
ze7as from coming to the polls II by such means
the foreign party has triumphed in that city,
II will he the last victory it will ever obtain
there. The American inhabitants of Cincin-
matt are not We, in the minority, if the foreign
population of that city does amount to 6G000
souls. A day of ofreckoning will come, and we
have no fears for the result"
Cincinnati reader, mark the words We have
put in italics Did your eve ever fall upon
more monstrous fabrication Here men
of ail parties will peinse them with unbound
en- astonlshment- hut -at-a distance there
are thousands of persons who viii place i'm
pllcit confidence in the gigantic falsehood
The base lie having started on its rounds with
ITS scven-leagued boots, it is too much 10
hope that truth will overtake it, but. never
theless, we trust the Democratic press will
everywhere put the brand of fasehood upon IL.
and give the benefit of their circulation Of
to our refutation. So far from our '.foreign
population"-as the organ disgracefully stig-
matizes adopted citizens using arms and
force to prevent Americans from voting, tho
facts in the case, as eveTyl ody here knows
are exactly the reverse.
1t was the knowNothings who imported
hired bullies from Maysville, Ky, TO stand
around our polls and cverawe quiet, peaceable
citizens In a number of the wards Demo
cratic adopted citizens were cruelty beaten
and maltreated by rowdies Of the opposition
party, and driven from the ground. They sub
mitted to MANY insults and injuries rather
than to do anything that would excite a riot
or lead to breaches of the peace. AT no poll
IN the city was an attempt made by tho
adopted citizens to deter electors from voting:
but on the contrary, they conducted them
selves with great moderation and propriety.
When the Know Nothings found they were
beaten, in accordance with an arrangements
they had formed previously for such a con-
tingency, they puured into a strong Democrat-
ic ward, the Eleventh, which gave about nine
hundred Democratic majority, and by force
seized upon the ballot box and destroyed IT,
Finding, the next day, they were beaten
without it, they formed into another mob and
proceeded to the Twelfth Ward another Dem
ocratic stronghold, giving seven hundred
majority, where they had not finished count
ing, and burned the votes there.
These are the facts about the election; az
the Viollce all the aypsiEg oj bullies, all the bal
lot bor btunings was done by the rowdies and
villains belonging to that organization Of
which the editor Of the Organ is the expo
nent. Failing to beat the Democratic party
by fair voting, the know-Nothings resorted
to force and violence, in the manner We have
described, to gain the election. Stung by de-
feat, they armed Themselves after the contest
and made an unprovoked assault upon the
Germans, which was signally repulsed by the
latter. In the face of these notorious truths,
the Organ has the shameless hardihood to as
sert that the foreign population, by force Of
arms. prevented American citizeus from COM
ing TO the polls" The ''day of reckoning
has come for the Know Nothings, aad it is
one they will long remember So far from
the Know Nothings "having been successful
at the West,' they have been beaten in near
ly all the large towns and cities IN Ohio, Ind
lana and Michigan L. Cincinnati Enquirer.