The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-10-01
The Louisville Riots Again.

The Sag NIGHT organ here is very much mis-
taken in thinking we shall fill up our columns
with more affidavits on the subject of the
Louisville riots. We have already published
enough affidavits and from Irishmen and Ger
MANS and Irish and German Catholics as well
as from respectable American citizens, to fully
establish our own statements, made upon IN
formation we gathered at Louisville the day and
night of the riots, that the foreigners were en-
tirely the aggressors-that they had armed
themselves days and weeks for the purpose of
taking the lives of Americans, and that they
commenced the riots by shooting down inoffen-
sive citizens while they were quietly walking
along the streets. We doubt whether there is
an intelligent man in Louisville who was in
that city at the time of the riots, and who ex-
amined into the causes of these difficulties, but
who k1oucs the foreigners are the aggressors, al
though for party motives he may maintain the
contrary If any had doubts, there could have
been no resisting the sworn testimony publish
ed in the Louisville Journal, and from men
too, whose sympathies must have been with
their fellow countrymen.
With the hope of destroying or in some
manner counteracting the influence of these
affidavits, the anti-Americans. labored weeks
in trying to get up affidavits to throw the
blame on the Americans. They doubt used
bribery and threats and promises beyond all
precedent to draw out testimony, (and all this
evidence is from men of their own party,) to
sustain their ends. And at last they have
thrown out a lot Of trash, great part of it
not touching the matter in consideration, but
relating only to the 9th ward difficulties re-
sulting in no riot there-a part the evidence
ofviolent Sag NIGHTS, and some utterly I'M
known and the remainder the simple state
nents of men, who did not dare clinch by oaths
that which they had thrown out principally as
hear sag. 1t will be noticed in examining this
testimony, that all of it supplied by citizens
well known in Louisville, is made up of their
mere statements not sworn to, and that much
of their statements is of what was told them,
and what they picked up miscellanously, just
as the rumors were picked up and retailed out
by the Sag NIGHT editors, (and not yet denied
by them although proven false as false can be,
of the shooting and burning of women and
children. Upon these things the anti-Ameri-
cans rely for counteracting the irresistible
and irrefutable testimony, published by the
Journal, when the whole affair was before
court of the people. Truly they are fighting
desperately with miserable weapons.
The Louisville journal has determined that
this paltry evidence" shall not be permitted
to raise even doubt in the minds of the peo-
pie, as to who were really the aggressors in
these riots. 1t will soon publish testimony
which it promises shall totally annihilate this
Sag NIGHT evidence-and Prentice generally
sticks to his promises in such manner as to
bring terror to the hearts of his enemies We
do not think any further evidence is needed to
prove the foreigners the aggressors, and we
Shall not take the trouble and space to copy
any affidavits which may hereafter be publish
ed. Our Sag NIGHT and to the heart anti-Amer-
lean neighbor, may rest perfectly easy on this
score. We are aware with what loathne he
regards any evidence, which in difficulty be-
tween foreign born and native citizens, might
have the effect to do justice to native born
Americans, or in any manner convey the idea,
that men not born IN this country could by
any possibility be guilty of wrong. We are
aware that he thinks, or acts out the thought.
there are no scoundrels except among the
Americans, and no virtue nots natural to and
exclusively the property of foreigners therefore
there is no possibility in a case of riot between
the foreign and native born of the former being
to blame. We shall not, therefore, shock his
feelings further, by publishing more evidence
calculated to produce the impression so har-
rowingto his feelings, that foreigners can really
be guilty of seoundrelly outrages against the
peace anti safety of a community.
o. We have better use for our columns
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