Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-08-15


and ponder these alarming details of mob law, and
to reflect upon the and of them, to wit
Know Nothingism which is alone responsible for
this war between races and religions
The following article, from the Louisville Journal,
on the morning before the election, will show the
spirit by which the K. N. leaders were actuated:
ave are glad that the Germans have made up
their minds to go to the polls to-day. 1t is their
right to go. We hope, however, that they are going
in obedience to the promptings of their own sense
of propriety, and the instigation of the Sag
NIGHT bues and rufians who are well known to have
organized fighting band here for the work of to-
day Let the Germans go by all means to the polls,
and if there is time for all to VOTE let them be
to vote But cannot resist the con0icti0n that
there shall not be time an Gny particular soG'd to tGke
the COtes of the aoh0te 0oting population If por-
ton, for the eoaaat Of time must be debarred from
the exercise Of the elective franchise, then eoery con-
sheraton ofcourtesy and propriety and rigt strong
ly and imperatiUely demands that the toreign-6orn
citizens, comparatively strangers to country and
ats institutions mere guests as 1T G0ere upon our c0u
trys so 0ictinas Hospitality receiued here IN their
flight from European desp0tasm, should, Of their
free Accord stand back until the eatIoe-6orn
fTeemea shall haze recorded their su6rages. We
hope, and have right to expect, that they them
selves, in spite of the infammatory appeals of sell
fish and malignant demagogues, will take this view
of the matter. 1t is the right view"
Here, as the Washington Union observes, was
open invocation to violence. Here was an open in
vitation the DULLES block up the polls that
should vote who did not vote for the proscrip
ton party. Language could go further than this.
Not only is it attempt to excite dissensions be-
tween citizens who equal before God and the law,
but to degrade the adopted citizen into condition
of inferiority and moral slavery. Not matter how
early an adopted citizen may have offered his vote,
matter how far in advance of others he may have
been, he to {" stand back till the know-nothings
had done their work ; to " stand back" with brand
upon his brow; to stand back like a felon; to
stand back if he carried the pestilence about
himl We venture to say, that never before in any
canvass has there been deliberate proposition for
bloodshed and murder The Journal gave full no.
tce of the deed that has since been savagely
summated. The adoption of this principle would
drench every city in the Union in the best blood of
both parties.
The City of Louisville, it is known, is under the
control of the Know Nothings and the Louisville
Democrat says, " the iawlessness was provided for
by the City authorities in allowing but one voting
place in Ward"
We observed, in the Louisville Democrat of July
90 account of attack by K. n mob on the
property of an Irishnan named QUINN Immediately
after listening to some inaammatory speeches by K.
N. leaders. Quinn had resided there twenty-one
or six of his houses nearly destroyed, and a
woman, one of the tenants, was shot through the
arm. The Democrat" called then on the City au-
thorities to come forward and check this mob spirit
but there was action. We sbserYe now, in the
list killed in the late riot the name of Quinn. His
houses were burned, and five persons roasted to
death in them!
From the Louisville Courier
We passed yesterday through the forms of an
election. As provided by the statute. the polls
opened, and privileges granted to such were
right upon the goose" with few exceptions, to
exercise their elective franchise. Never, perhaps
was a greater arce-or should term it, TRACE
dy-enaoted. Hundreds and thousands were de-
TERED from voting by direct acts of intimidation,
others through fear of consequences, and multi
tude from the lack of proper facilities The city,
indeed, was, during the day, in possession of an
armed mob, the base passions of which infu-
rated to the highest pitch by the incendiary appeals
of the newspapers organ and the popular leaders of
the Know-Nothing party.
On Sunday night, large detachments of men
sent to the first and second wards to that the
polls were properly opened These men, the Amer
lean Executive Committee, were supplied with requi
site refreshments, and as may be imagined they
in very fit condition on yesterday morning to
that the rights of freemen were respected Indeed
they discharged the important trusts committed to
them II such manner as to commend them forever
to the admiration of outlaws! They opened the
polls, they provided ways and means for their
party to vote they buffed and bullied all who could
not show the sgn they, in fact, converted the cleo
ton into perfect farce without redeeming or
qualifying phase.
We do not know when or how their plan ofoper-
atoms devised. Indeed we do not care to know
when such system of outrage-such perfdy-such
dastardy-was conceived. We only blush for Ken
lucky that her soil was the scene of such outrages,
and that some ofs her were participants in the
nefarious swinde.
1T would be impossible to know when or how this
riot eompenced By day break the polls were taken
~ A--~-;onn nartv and in DurSu-
ance of the preconcerted game, they used every
stratagem device to hinder the vote of every man
who could not manifest to the guardians of the
polls, his soundness the K. n. questions. we
were personally witnesses to the procedure of the
lied to speak. At the seventh ward we discovered
impossible for those not posted" to VOTE with
out the greatest difficulty. In the sixth ward par
ty of DULLES masters of the polls. We saw
tive foreigners driven from the polls, forced to run
gauntlet, beat numerically, stoned and stabbed
son, formerly a member of Congress from this dis
trict, interfered, and while appealing to the mad
dened crowd to their acts of disorder and vio
lence, Mr.. Thomasson struck from behind and
beaten His grey hairs, his long public service, his
manly presence, and his thorough Amercansm,
availed nothing with the crazed mob. Other and
serious fights occurred in the sixth ward of which
we have time to make mention now.
The more serious and dsgraceful disturbance oc-
Cured in the upper wards. The vote cast was but !
a martial one and nearly altogether on one side No