Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-04-12


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.AMERICANS RULING AMERICA"
W. are indebted to the poteness of Hon. w. w.
pnrb. Speaker of the House of Representatives OF
Louisiana for pamphlet containing the reports OF
the majority and the minority of the Committee on
Elections of the Legislature of that State, in vari-
ons cases of contested elections growing ont OF the
ontrares committed at the polls in New Orleans by
rowdes and ruffans of the X. N. party. The ma
iori,y reports, signed by Messrs B. T. Can't, Ihos
I semmes, and II. NJ. Polk, shows that in NUM-
her of cases the Know Nothing commissioners of
election refused to receive the votes Of natu'azed
citizens-that for example, in two precincts they
rejected the votes of at least sixtyone persons
who were legal voters that in another case thlr-
tvone legal voters driven from the polls, beat
en-, and some of them actually threatened with
death by lawless band of ruffians, who maintained
possession of the polls during the greater part OF
the day" The report adds:
81, is painful to the undersigned to be compelled to COM
mut on Of violence and bloodshed when d's-
rared the Ninth Representative District OF New Orleans
h 9Th Of November last The voters of DISTRICT
mus, ever the 9TH of November ls', as reign
of Terror. 1t is evident that there Was systematic ana
n,,uLr WILL BIZ violence and asSassnaons. gang Ut
wes dcsperes, took OF the narrow avenues
leading The polls and drove away with pistoi ana Do"e
Ir,veS hundreds Of voters
These men were kept advised of in various
quarters horseback and when the object de-
sired by them accomplished at one precinct they wou'd
Start off perpetrate similar ouirages at another ana
then ag TO reenact similar scenes Many men
were after and shot at some saved their lives Jump
nr through windows and doors stabbed others
Sc led numerically beaten dsiigured was killed
near the polls and another shot dead at his own door
heart seeker a
volts al further uirv. The effect of these Outrages ut
the list precinct may be inferred from the cast the
Sin November last compared the vote at the previ-
Gus ubcrnatorlal election Al the previous election go
woes cast and the Democratic candidates obtained 20
majority the election only lo4 votes were poed,
giving majority Of TO the Know Nothing party
The aiidavits of at least one hundred native and
naturaizcd citizens given proving the outrages
and the manner in which they were perpetrated.
We have read these atfidavits. and we'll may the
Committee say "the heart sckcns at further re-
citals"
The minority of the Committee on Elections did
not attempt to dispute these facts, but contented
themselves with Directing to the jurisdiction of the
Court before which these afidavits were taken.
Thus was the popular voice ovcrawed and silenced
in New Orleans, as in Louisville Kentucky, by
threats, violence, and assassination. The rrcoec-
ton Of "Sam's" achievements in Louisville is yet
fresh in the public mind. Naturaizeo citizens, and
those natives who took their part murdered or beat
en-, chased, bounded, and nsulted in every possible
way by Know Nothing bulles-husbands torn from
their wives and children and 5utchered before their
eyes!-the innocent children Of naturalized citzers
kicked and trampled on-houses given to the flames
and their inmates roasted to death, or shot down
like dogs as they escaped such is the record of
Americans ruling America " in the City of Louis
vile; and the scenes in New Orleans, described
in this legislative, official document nearly as
dark in their atrocity and wickcdness as those in
Louisville. Thus it is that "Sam rules America. >
The cause which requires such means to uphold it.
is Infamous. The blessing of God is not upon it
the boo of the slain cries to Heaven for vengeance.
We know that all decent, orderly, and respectable
Know Nothngs dcplore these things, and that they
have done all they could to prevent such outrages;
but such are al~"ys the results Of a contest-for
which all Know Nothings responsibIe-beteceea
races and religions Set against race, and sect
against sect,-infame them by the appeals of the
press and the nvective and the faSchoods Of dena-
gogues, and the result must be blood and murder.
Louisville and New Orleans bear testimony to this
TRUTH and all history confirms it. Suppose -" Sam
had power in this counry-suppose the federal gov
eminent in his possession, with fifty million ma.
tlona bank under his CONTROL and the land proceeds
distributed, thus rendering the States dependent
the federal centre how much would our liberties
be worth?
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