Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-04-16
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AMERICANS RULING AMERICA"

Pugh 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
Gus cases of contested elections growing out of the
outrases committed at the polls in New Orleans by
rowdies and ruffians of the. X. n. party. The
iority reports signed by Mcssrs B. r. CAN'T Thos.
j. Scmmes, and H. NJ Polk, shows that in
Der of cases the Know Nothing commissioners of
election refused to receive the votes Of natulalized
ctzens-that for example, in two precincts they
"reiected the votes of at least sixty persons
who legal voters that in another case 'thr-
ty-one legal voters were driven from the pols 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:
at painful to the undersigned, to be compelled
meut the of violence and bloodsied which dis
graced the Ninth Representative District Of New Orleans,
the 5th Of November last. The voters of that District
must ever recur to the 9th of November lS55 as reign
of Terror 1t is evident that there systematic and
we'll conrved conspiracy to defeat the expression of the
weS desperadoes took of the narrow avenues
leading to the polls and drove with pistols and bowie
These kept advised of movements in various
quarters by courers horseback and when the object de-
sired by them accomplished at precinct they would
off Terpetrate similar outrages at another, and
then return ag lin to re-enac similar scenes Many men
after and shot at, saved their lives byjump
ing through windows and DOORS stabbed others
seized and numerically beaten disgured killed
the polls and another shot dead at his door
volts further ury The effect of these outrages at
the precinct may be inferred from the the
Gus gubernatora election At the previous election 22o
cast and the Democratic candidates obtained 70
majority the recent election only 154 votes poed,
giving majority OF . to the Know Nothing party
he affii.vitc If at loaSt ono hundred native and
naturalized citizens given, proving the outrages
and the manner in which they perpetrated.
We have read these affidavits, and well may the
Committee say '' the heart sckens at further re-
citals"
The minority of the Committee Elections did
not attempt to dispute these facts, but contented
themselves with obecting to the jurisdiction of the
Court before which these affdavits were taken.
Thus was the popular voice ovcrawed and senced
in New Orleans, as in Louisville, Kentucky, by
threats, violence, and assassination. The recollec
ton of "Sam's achievements in Louisville is yet
fresh in the public mind Naturalizcd citizens, and
those natives who took their part murdered beat
en-, chased, hounded and insultcd in every possible
way by Know Nothing bullies-husbands torn from
their wives and children and butchcred before their
eyes the innocent children Of naturalizcd citizens
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, as described
in this legislative oticial document were nearly as
dark in their atrocity and wckcdness 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 blood of the slain cries to Heaven for vengeance
We know that all decent, orderly, and respectable
Know Nothngs deplore these things, and that they
have done all they could to prevent such outrages;
but such are azaoays the results Of a contest-for
which all Know Nothings responsible -6etaoeen
races and religions. Set against race, and sect
against sect-inAame them by the appeals of the
press and the nvective and the falsehoods of dema
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 country-suppose the federal gov
ernment in his possession, with fifty million ma.
tonal bank under his CONTROL and the land proceeds
distributed thus rendering the States dependent on
the federal centre how much would our liberties
be worth?
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN PORTSMOUTH.
The Democrats of Portsmouth, Va, have achieved
brilliant victory culvert "Sam" The Nor
1olk Argus thus announces the result:
speaks her sisters of the Seaboard the
fledmont and ransAleghany. The verdict of her people
mas been rendered against the hercsy of Know Nohngsm