Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-16

: drket street, went to every drug store, IL
search of strychnne, in order to kill herself
before being killed by the Americans-Oh
Godl
We are informed that a lady on Market
street hearing of the man heing hung, and
finding it was an Irishman, replied: good, they
every one should be hung. Can any one tell
us who she is or what's her name.
We visited the ruins of the Monday n ght
conflagration last night about o'clock. 1t
was a pitiable sight. We were shown where
those helish fends committed the most out
rcgeous murders. While there we noticed a
long file of men carrying the American flag
in triumph past the ashes Of their then late
outrages That flag that has waved over the
victory of Washington, jackson, Scott and
| Taylor should not be Frustrated to snch a
victory as that.
We have been informed that Geo. ID. Prem
tice, made feeble, Jesuitical appeal to his
brigade of outlaws Monday night, not to burn
down our office. We may be regarded as
being ungrateful, but we do not thank him
for his speech, or acknowledge ourselves un-
der any obligations to him for it, The i'm
potent and palsied leader of those despera
does may have felt pride at the moment in
being able to control their savage instincts
But after they had brutally murdered inno-
cent men and women and young habes-af-
ter they had been guilty OF theft, arson, burg
lery and murder, and would have added rape
to their hellisl barbarities but for fear of tan
talising their impotent leader, we felt that we
had no right TO be exempt from their inia-
nous barbarity. We were prepared for it.
We expected it, and should have been able
to bear it quite as well, if not better, than
others who were driven from their homes,
who had husbands, fathers, mothers and chill
iren murdered and burnt
| From Prentice or his outlaws we ask no
iavors. The wretch, who, himself was hung
| in effigy by these same demons fifteen
months ago-whom was protected from fur
ther outrages by men against whom his infer
nal malice is now turned-whO stood tremb-
| ling and whining at the Gait douse after his
return from Middletown, whence he fled
from the mob, until his friends forced him
to his office to defend himself-this impo-
tent and malignant eunuch is the leader of
the vilanies which have disgraced the city
beyond redemption.
The scenes of Monday were appalling
beyond anything yet witnessed in this
| Union. They were not exceled by the
Jacobins of France under her most ferocous
political tyrants. The city was for eighteen
hours in the hands of a mob. They pillaged
| fruit stalls and assaulted innocent citizens,
burnt houses, and robbed breweries, muir
dered, men women and children at their
pleasure.
| Nothing was sacred from their polluted touch.
| Desperadoes all, and led and assisted by lead
ers who held back out of the sight of ex-
posure, they defied the sanctities of law and
the obligations of humanity alike. Goddess
wretches as they are, GEORGE ID. PRENTICE
is their leader and defender.
They denounced us repeatedly last night,
because we have said they were lawless and
dishonest. They threatened if we repeated
our denuncation they would yet tear down
our office. Let them do it. We shall never
cease to denounce all who adhere to the MUIR
derous party and offscourings of the earth, as
robbers, burglars, house burners and murder
ers, and if we had other terms to express an
abhorrance of their deeds in more indignant
and expressive language we should use it
Prentice is the leader of these miscreants, and
the worst among them.
From the Louisville Democrat of the sth.l
We refer our readers to the details of the
shocking occurrences on Monday. There can
be but one opinion of their character. All good
men regard them with shame and sorrow. Lou
isville has sjgnalzed herself in lawlessness
above her neighbors. We do not intend Just
now To indulge in extended comments Our
main purpose is, to get the facts before the peo-
pie of Kentucky aud the public generally We
are deeply mortified for Louisville, but it is
idle 20 disguise facts. 4 few remarks we shall
make, however.
The attempt to lay the blame upon our To-
reign population win be failure. The fact is
known to all, that they were alarmed at the
demonstrations made against them at the preyi-
Gus elections. Instead of being excited to vio-
lencc they We're apprehensive of attac7 5 upon
them, and very few could be induced to 90
near the polls. We leave the public TO Judge
If men in this condition would be likely to pro-
yoke a dominant organized party, who evident
{ ly had the physical force at command. and
were believed to he determined to use it, 1t will
be found, beyond question, that foreigners made
no resistance unless first assailed, and having
reason to believe that their lives were in danger
OF the truth of this the reader can Judge by
reading the details elsewhere. We believe they
2 are accurate generally; at least much so as
5 they can be made. We leave it to any one tc
Judge whether feeble and terrified minority
, were at all likely TO commence riot and disor
der. We know that rumOrs of the sort prevail
> ed. Early in the afternoon We're standing
on Jefferson, and saw n mob rushing madly
1
{ passed along that the Dutch had taken the poll:
with hundred guns. and the Americans were
. rushing TO the arsenal for muskets and cannon
! Men and boys, in hot haste rushed by with
1 few muskets, and presently the cannon fol
e lowed-by whose orders we not informed
t The rumor was all lie There was not tn,
r least disturbance at the pOlls--no arms there
Q These reports are but the common machinery o
> mobs. Men must be stimulated to such deed
rs mobs do by alleged wrongs, real or imagina
ry. All men of sense ought TO recollect tha
> lies are part, and a necessary part, of mol
= law. Indeed, the scenes of yesterday were pre-
}. pared for by the incendiary appeals, founded
on rumors utterly false.
a We know it is insisted upon, in spite of tn
!, knowledge of hundreds whemsde the experimu
= that all had an opportunity TO vote 1t is wei
: known, however that system of terror was es
! tablished at the, polls, or in their vicinity. w
had au opportunity to see it at the Sixth War
q polls. We We're in a crowd at the entrance doc
, to the polls, of Democrats and Know Nothing
10 crowding in to vots. There was not the leas
> disorder or i'll humor, when bully with a clui
. followed by several of the class, rushe
+ into the room, shouting ''Hurrah for Marshal
clear these pools" and ilourishing his bludgeol
Is The crowd behind gave way, and the bull
passed on, having made this preliminary demon
a. stration. Shortly after the attack upon foreigr
= ers began about the court house yard
- In the upper. and lower Wards. the reign
- terror was completely established early in Il
III afternoon I he self-styled Americans had
m satisfactory number polled--at least all the
G. could get; and the violence that commenced {
large scale diverted all attention from ii
tn polls. Indeed. naiuralized citizens were {,
es apprehensive for the safety of themselves an
al families, to venture upon the hazardous exper
- ment of going to the polls. The meagre vo
~ shows what farce the so-called election wa
II The Know -Nothings have polled all they ha
and we presume no one will deny that if GU
ct election had been held, we should have pnl
tb ed, in the present excited state of the publ
mind, at least six thousand votes.
The causes which led to this diseraceful b
CHI siness we shall discuss hereafter Some m;
an chuckle at a party triumph by such means, b
ad good men can read it only with disgust al
ST. horror Taking into the account the compal