American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1855-08-18
NEWS DEP ARTMENT.
THE LOUISVILLE RIOTS!
hcm the Louisville Journal, August 7-s.
THE RIOTS ON MONDAY.

Frcm the Louisville Journal, August 7-S.
THE RIOTS ON MONDAY.
Wehave taken pains to asce, tain tho
correct version oftlie origin ofthe riots
on Monday. We have conversed with
a number of persons who were witness
ses of the beginning of tho ARRAYS in
the First aud Eight wards. We have
been assured that those scenes Of vio-
lince were altogether disconnected with
the election. aud that all the bloodshed
and destruction OF life aud property
were occasioned in every instance by
unprovoked aud murderous assaults
offoreigners upon native-born citizens.
In every instance where death has occur
red or blood has been split Americans
were first fired upon and cut, stabbed or
beaten by foreigners.
There is very strong ground for be-
lief that these attacks we're not occasion.
ed by anything that happened Monday
but that all the arrangements were made
for them several days before hand
that they had premeditated and pre-.
concerted. We have been reliably
informed that the Catholic Irish in the
neighhorhood ofQ uinn's houses, on Main
street had arranged and contemplated
an attack upon the American process
sion on Saturday night and were induc-
ed to defer tho execution of their muir
derons designs only by their fears excl
ted by the immense and unexpected
number and character of those who
composed the procession. Two of the
IRISH women living in that neighborhood
have admitted that they were cognizant
of this design. A gentleman informs us
that on Monday night he was warned
by German friend, gunsmith, no, to
approach the portion of Main street be-
tween Tenth and Twelfth streets du.
ring the day, as he had within the pre-
Vious ten days cleaned and put in order
quite two hundred guns for the Irishmen
living in that neighborhood We have
been told that there were several Irish.
man engaged in the riot who did ne. be-
long To the city, but had been summon
ed here for the especial purpose of aid.
ing their countrymen in the ou,rapes
contemplated by them or Saturday night
and actually perpetrated on Monday af-
ternoon.' Ii has also been ascertained
beyond the possibility of doubt that
thare was large quantity of arms and
ammunition contained in tho houses of
Quinn which were destroyed. We have
also been Informed that threats have
been made by Catholic Germans in the
First ward that they would kill any
German who should dare to vote the A.
merican ticket on Monday, and we learn
from the statement of one of the men
who was wounded upon Shelby street
That this threat, in one instance at least
was actually carried into effect on Mon
day afternoon. We also know that, in
consequence Of these threats, and Off
formation that those who had uttered
them were assembled together, fully AR
med and bent upon the execution of
their bloody purpose, number Of re.
| spectacle, orderly Germans who voted
the American ticket were actually afraid
to go to their homes and did not 90
there till yesterday. For more than
week past we have received intimalions
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 An'i-American party to induce the
foreigners Ill this city To effect by force
what they might not be able to do by
Peaceabl y and quietly depositing their
votes. For weeks before the election
most outrageous, intlamatory, and incen.
diary appeals have been made to them
in the speeches of their 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
basest passions inhamed almost to mad.
ness, until murder aud crime were the
consequences. Even lift were not true
that as many believe and not unroason-
ablyl these foreigners were instigaled
10 aud abeued 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 tho leaders and dema-
gogues Of the Sag Moths party to at
iach to them a great part of the blame
for these .amentable and disgracefu ri
OTIS. We hope the Investigations of
the Coroner may bring to light all tho
facts and the causes and antecedents
of the these occurrences in order that
tho terrible responsibility of having in
cited these acts Of violence may res,
where it properly belongs, and that
public condemnation may fall upon the
heads of the really guilty.
TIE FIRST BLOOD.
The An,i-Americans may assert and
protest and swear as strongly as they