The Placer herald., 1855-10-27
NUMBER T.:
The Louisville Riots.

LOUISVILLE HAS not appeiseu tnc vengeance o
the bigoted faction which seems to have re
solved that an internecine war shall be the
only outlet for the bad passions they have
created. The horrors of the fatal deed, hay,
brought no conjunction, nor the condemna
ton of the public no shame to the instiga-
tors. An impudent attempt Is made, not
even to eXtenuate the crime but to Justify it.
Failing to fasten the blame on the Irish and
Germans, by reckless statements, false oaths,
and Illogical reasoning, the Know Nothinys
now appeal to a qaasi official report in sup
port of their assertion.
The committee appointed by the Common
Council of Louisville to investigate the late
riot, have sent in their report, over which
the Know Nothing organs are gloating, and
to which they point triumphanty as proof
that "thc Irish began it,"
To Judge Of the value of this document,
as an honest appropriated report, it is only
necessary to read one extract. Abiding to
the house of poor old Mr.. Quin, who was sa-
yagely murdered, it says
From this Irish armory, from this Jesuit
zeal resort, and by den of assassins therein
congregated the first attack was made the
first blood was shed, the first murder com
mitted in the Eighth ward. BY these priest
ridden foreign hirelings, and from within the
walls OF these desecrated habitations, peace
able and quiet Americans were shot dead
without provocation, while in the discharge
OF their daily and legitimate business. This
| premeditated unproyoled, and indscrminato
slaughter of innocent men was more than
Americans could endure.
Tho onoratiopc of f. loeo ,1o4onto4oe of y o,s,a
in the First ward were of a similar character
with those Of the Eighth. On Shelby street
between Walnut and Broadway, the houses
occupied by foreigners were mostly supplied
with guns, and unoilcnding passers-by were.
shot at from every dwelling in that neigh
borhood and many of them badly wounded.
In various other portions of the ward mur-
derous attacks We're made by foreign Papists
on unsuspcctin@ Americans, and doubtless at
the instigation of those higher and more
skilled in the dark deeds of Catholicism.
After a thorough investigation of this
whole subject, your committee conclude that
the foregn-born population, aided by the
would-be Americans, planned and set in mo
ton the machinery from which all distur-
Dances originate on the day of election
1t must be an admitted fact that the kill
INC SO many estimabe citizens, and that too,
by the followers Of the Pope of Rome, was
enough to create in the breast of every true
American a feeling of revenge, and if, in the
moment of excitement and from causes un-
deniab)y just, they manifested reaiatorv
disposition, your committee cannot and will
not impute to them a ccnsure therefor"
This is quite enough,
The unprecedented public who are seeking
for truth in this bloody business will proper
" appreciate the value of any statements
made in such a spirit as this. The Chairman
Mr. Joseph A. ellis, and the entire commit
tee are Know Nothings, and it must be ad-
mitted that they went to work with proper
Know Nothing zeal. .#..
This is the weakest argument they have
yet produced. If facts could be procured to
sustain their cause, abuse and scurriltv, and
stupid nonsense about the dark deeds of Ca
tholicism, would be unnecessary. But what
have the committee sought to establish in
this document Simply, that no censure is
to be imputed to any Know Nothing for
hunting down, butchering and roasting men,
women, and children, provided they profess
the Catholic faith, and were born outside the
jurisdiction of the United States This is
the deliberate verdict of an official body rep
resenting the municipal government Of Louis
vile; and without doubt it is verdict which
will be eagerly acted upon elsewhere. Al
ready there are dark wlisperings abroad that
the lost "honor" of the faction is to be won
back at Cincinnati in the fall election though
that fair city be wrapped in flames, and its
streets run crimson with the blood of its
people
Dismembered, and poweress as the Know
Nothing party is for any great political pur-
pose, it is to be expected that it will fall back
upon bullyism to achieve whatever it aspres
to; and we must be prepared for such a re-
suit.