Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-08-22
From the Louisville a6urnafof the 9Th.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.

We have conVersed With q NUMBER OF persons
who were witnesses of the beginning of the
affrays in both the First and Eighth wards. We
have been we'll assured that those scenes OF
violence were altogether disconnected with the
election, and that all this boodshed and destruc.
ton of life and propssty were occasioned in
every instance by unpr6voked and murderous
assaults of foreigners upon natige.born citizens.
In every instance wheretdeath has occurred or
blood has been split, Amairans were first fired
upon and cut, stabbed, ofsbeaten by foreigners.
There is very strong ground for belief that
these attacks were not occasioned by ANYTHING
that happened on MonaaT but that all the ar
rangements were made Tor them several days
before hand--that they were: premedltated and
preconcerted. From several sources we have
been informed that the Catholic Irish in the,
neighborhood of Quinn ahonses, on Main street,
had arranged for and contemplated an attack
upon the American procession on Saturday
night and were induced to defer the execution
of their murderous designs only by their fears
excited by the immense and unexpected number
and character Of those who composed the pro-
cession. Two of the sIfish women living in
that neighborhood have admitted that they were
cognizant of this design.
A gentleman informs us that on Monday he
was warned by a German friend. q gunsmith,
not to approach the portion of Main street be-
tween Tenth and Twelfth streets during the
day, as he had within the previous ten days
cleaned and put in order quite two hundred
guns for the Irishmen living in that neighbor-
hood. We have been told that there were sew
eral Irishmen engaged in the riot who did not
belong to the city, but had been summoned
here for the especial purpose of aiding their
countrymen in the 0utrnges contemplated by
them on Saturdaysnight and actually perpetrated
on Monday afternoon. It has also been nscer.
tanned beyond any doubt that there was large
quantity of arms and ammunition contained in
the houses of Quinn, which were destroyed:
We have also been informed that threats had
been made by Catholic Germans in the First
ward that they would kill any German who
should dare to vote the American ticket on
Monday, and we learn from the statement OF
one of the men who were wounded upon Shell
by street that this threat, in one instance, at
least, was actually carriedinto effect on Monday
afternoon. We also know that in consequence
of these threats and Of information that those
who have uttered them were assembled together,
fully armed and bsntS Upon the execution of
their bloody purpose; asnumber of respectable,
were actually afraid to 30 to their homes and
did not 60 there until yesterday.
For more than week past we have received
intimation from different sources that there was
in the First ward an organized force of Sag
NIGHTS, and that every effort was Intended to be
made by the leaders of the Anti.Amtrican par.
~ to induce the foreigners in this city to effect
by force what they might not be able to do by
peaceably and quietly deposiling their votes.
For weeks before the election, most outrageous,
inaammatory, and incendiary appeals had been
made to them in the speeches of their party
demagogues and through their party press
They had been induced to believe, what is not
true, that the American party sought TO take
away or interfere with some of their vested
rights. They were thus wrought upon and
their most violent and basestA passions inaamed
almost to madness, untilmurder and crime were
the consequences. Even if it were not true,
that Gas many believe apd not unreasonably)
these foreigners were instigated TO and abetted
in these acts of violence by others who are not
now known, but who ought to have had more
sense and patriotism, still enough has been said
and done by the leadersia and demagogues of the
Sag NIGHTS party to attach to them great. part
'of The blame for these hmentable and disgrace
fu! riots. We hope the investigations of the
Coroner may bring TO light all the facts and the
causes and the aptecedents of these occurrences
in order that the terrible responsibility of hav.
inr incited these acts of violence may rest
where it properly belongs, and that public con-
dcmnation may fall upon the heads of the real
ly guilty.
It is certainly true that the election was pas
sing off without more violence or disturbance
than almost invariably attended the elections in
which the old political parties were contestants.
The election had proceeded thus quietly until
between three and four o'clock in the First ward
and until near o'clock lin the Eighth ward
The voting had slackened. There was at that
time no difficulty for any one to gain admission
to the polls. The foreigners who commenced
the firing from the windows and behind gate
ways and faeces were fully armed and acted in
concert, while the Americans were unprepared
and unsuspicious of any attack. They were
unarmed and were obliged to 60 to their homes
10 arm themselves in order to defend themselves
from this indiscriminate slaughter. There IS
indeed not shadow of doubt that there would
not have been any bloodshed, or murders, or
house-burnings, or riots, if it had not been for
the wholesale and unprovoked killing and wound.
ing of unoffending natiye.born American Gill.
zens by the bloody.minded foreigners who COM
menced this helishs hswork.
Since writingthe above, we have received The
following names, B. J. Figg, Mr.. Higdon, H.
Wood, Mr.. Gregory, R. H. Snyder, and Toney,
German, as the names Of of,respectabe citizens
who are ready to prove that, in the scenes of
violence which happened in the ..at ward on
Monday, foreigners alone were the aggressorss.
The vote on Monday would have been much
larger and at least several hundred more Ameri-
can votes would have been polled if the distur-
bance in the first ward had not taken place in
the afternoon.
WE learn from the Columbia Carolinian that
on Saturday Inst. Mr.. VIM. Sanders, OF State.
burg, was returning home from Baptist Church