The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-08-27
For the Nashville True whir.
The Louisville Riots.

very organs which were instrumental in arousing
the worst passions of the more ignorant OF our
foreign population, instgatiug them to implacable
hostility to the great American movement, by reck
less unjust and dishonest misrepresentation as to
its character and Objects and which have been but
too successful in goadng on those passions to the
highest pitch-even to the spilling of blood in
neighbor city, by an unlocked for and murierous
assault upon peaceable American citizens-are now
making the fearful recol which there resulted, the
pretert and OCCASION for adding fuel to the fire. as
means of promoting party ends.
In the Louisville riots, every one who has looked
into the facts knows full well that the onslaught
was commenced by the foreign party, D,addered by
their political leaders; that in the several deadly
assaults respectively, the first blood spilled by
the guns of foreigners; that the first sacrifices were
of American citizens. 1t is well known that, al
though in that fearful reaction which took place,
several foreigners we're killed and other violence
to be depored by all good citizens resulted, is
to be apprehended in all cases of riot, there
also, upon the other side, a number of worthy
American citizens slain, not rioters, but mostly IN
suspecting persons, falling without warning before
the fire of lurking foe.
For these, however, no lamentations are offered
up by the anti-American press. They pass this
part of the story by with unconcern; nay, they
seek to ignore it altogether in their great eagerness
to gather up and parade every isolated instance Of
outrage, every incoherent and discrepant account
calculated to exasperate foreigners and unite them
in firm embrace to their native born allies in the
war against American principles. Every relic of
the riot, every charred fragment, every drop Of
blood is Unfortunately gathered up for trGnSauta
fion into votes. The calamity seems to be seized
upon as a most precious godsend, by way of array
ing the prejudces and securing the permanent CO.
operation OF foreigners against the American cause
and of diverting attention from the great issues it
involves.
AS an instance of the "ve uses" referred to, we
might mention the discrepant statements of the
Louisville Sag NIGHT papers and the inAammatory
comments, as paraded day after day in the Union
and American of this city. 1t viii be remembered
that the anti-American organs endeavord at the
start to stay the American movement by threats
and appeals designed to operate upon the wavering
and timid, predicting ''riot" and "bloodshed" as
a result Fooled in this, their recourse to denuncia
ton, misrepresentation and false charges against
the order, and inamatory appeals to the preudices
and passions of our foreign population, show that
they were not unwilling to see their prediction full
fled in some cases, indeed, the evidence of facts
forces the conviction of purpose to forcs as a
dernier resort, its fufillment-a fulfllment which
in the instance before us, however brought about,
we now find them most eagerly striving to conUert
i'to capital. Witness the battlecry as daily caught
up and reiterated by the editor of the U',iOn and
american. Notwithstanding the most indubitable
testimony to the contrary, in the multitudes of aft
davts, from foreigners and Catholics themselves as
well as others, find Originally from the PennsyI-
vd',idn, but now stereotyped by the party in an
article replete with such characteristic epithes as
midnight marauders" 'brutal assassins," &C., the
following baretaced assertion:
"The work of destruction was begun by the
hired rutfans of the Secret Order"
Now hear the Louisville Democrat:
owe will shake at them the CORY locks of their
victims; we will keep ringing in their ears the fry
ing scorchng, cracking bodies of the inoffensve
and unoffending women and children who persisted
at their hands," "They will be held up as scare.
crows to frghten women and children"
And again, lear the hreGt-and another predic-
ton, Whose ful6lment they may think important
to bring about:)
as this feud Of race and religion to be kept up2
If so, what has been done wiU Be repeatedF
And these are the "scare-crows" held up to de-
ter men from acting out the dictates Of right and
the high promptings of duty to the land of their
BIRTH Surely every patriot nor, il neve. be-
fore, perceive and kyaOp what he ought to do. The
facts show in a language which che who runs may
read, that AMERICANS MUST RULE THEIR COUNTRY,
and right soon, or it will be trampled under the
hostile feet of aliens congregating here from every
nation under heaven, whose motley and heteroge-
neous shades portend nothing for their "rule" but
discord, anarchy and final despotism. When we
already see this disjointed multtude-unted tenn
porariIy together only by the common bond of
foreignism, intoxicated by the idea of '1iberty"
which they cannot comprehend, and always ripe
for manipulating with one accord to the sway of
The basest demagoguism, duped and instgated even
10 the shedding of blood, by the most absurd and
Villianous misrepresentation; when we see them
already become the great object Of desire by domi
nant faction whose acts show clearly that their motto
is ''rule or ruins" when we see this blind, tumul.
tous spirit Of riot and slaughter fostered and arous-
ed as means of political conquest and finally,
when we those who have the control OF it point
ing Significantly had almost said erultantly-to
the results which they have through II been en-,
abled to accomplish-,nay even threatening US with
repetition Of oil the horrors thus TO be brought
about, as ''scare-cro~" to deter honest men from
the free and faithful discharge of conscious duty to
their country; when we see these things so obvious
before US, who that has one spark of patriotism
uuquenched by party rancour, one noble impulse
unwarped by prejudice, one throb of unalloyed de.
voton TO his country's good, does not perceive,
and feel and know that il is time 10 act, at once
Who, that can claim this land for his heritage, Is
there among US so blind to the facts, SO supplied
By party clamor, so debased, brow beaten and
enchained by political dietaton, that he cannot
viii not, dare not acts Political hucksters and