Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-07-03

down street not yet enfladed by their
Iguns, and pinked conductor of the rail.
lroad atone hundred and seventy Eve yards
He was taken in the back and died prompt
lly.
! That there was no necessity for tho fir
ing is shown by the fact that all the person,
hurt but one "Amerfcdrs' and two negroes,
,rere Democrats 1t will hardly be charg-
led or believed that they were there to abet
riot and prevent their own friends from
voting, or that they would have disobeyed
any proper order from their own Mayor
and his military allies to disperse and leave
the ground free for fight between the
troops and the insurgents. Why. ,oas The
/ q. s. army and nary called upon at alR-
Why aeere not the militia companies called
out to preserUe orders There is.a deeply sig
En!.fcaat reason. The Muyor icas afraid TO
summon the American companies lest they
should refuse to fire UPON tie people, and he
soas equally afraid to call out our Irish and
German companies from the danger Of a con-
fict bct'oeen them ndthe people, The ma
riRes COULD be trusted, because theyacereaear
yaH IRISH, and their officers were in gov
ernment pay and wholly independent of
civic ties and feelings
Want Of space prevents us now from
commenting fully upon either these ex-
tracts or the subjoined afidavits. Weshall
hereafter notice both at greater length
The disarming of the native-born militia
whilst the foreigners. were permitted to re-
tain their arms, and the premeditated cal
ling oUtof the marines, as shown by the
afidavitof clergyman of good standing,
cannot be toostrongly condemned, Itwas
utterly atrocious. The heavens will yet
ring with denunciations of this barbarous
outrage when the truths completely elici-
ted, as we feel confident it will be shortly.
Mark The fact that only one Ao.ericaa .oas
hurt; all the rest, except t,oo negroes, soere
Democrats. The following is the letter of
our Washington correspondent ,accompa-
nying the afhdavits referred to- ss-.
To The Editors Of The Louisville Journal
.er.', WASHINGTON, June Ii, 1857.
GENTLEMEN The American party ofthis
city have been endeavoring since the 1st
inst, to obtain legal investigation of the
occurrences of that day, but, as the Ad-
ministration has been SO strenuously OPP
posed to the step, they have been thus far
unsuccessful. A great many afidavits
have been taken of persons who were on
the ground, at the time of the murder,
and some of whom are now at the point of
death. These afhdavits have been taken
without respect to party, so far as members
of the other party were willing to give them
in--the tendency of all being to the same
point and affirming the fact, that the mur-
der was most uncalled for, most brutal and
atrocious, and the more so, because it was
pren,sditoted and predetermined for days
IUSiOIc IL OcCurTCu
The affidavit of the Rev. Thomas Plum
i'll, shows clearly that the determinations
of the mayor, on the day previous, was
"that he would give them powder and
ball, The muster roll at the barracks a
week previous and subsequent shows that
during that time there was an increase of
some go marines on service. There were
two marines on that day who received pis-
tol shots, one of whom l saw fall to the
ground but few rods from me, shot in the
mouth Since that time, nothing can be
heard of this marine at the barracks, A
member of the Empire Irish Club of Bal
timore lies dangerously i'll of shot recei-
we'd in his mouth, in Washington on that
fatal day. The bayoneting of Biddleman
when he was down, and the shockingly
cruel manner in which he was dragged by
his wounded arm, show that there We're
Others than the United States Marines in
the troops, and that they were gratifying a
brutal and bloodthirsty spirit of revenge
But what has been the course pursued by
the murderers since that day? OF all the
pead, but one single inquest was held, and
the facts elected at this inquest have been
Suppressed from the columns of the news
papers, 1t was too evident to the party in
power what would be the result Of these
inquests, and the dead Lave been hurried
away to their graves without any form of
inquiry as to how they came to their death,
The inquest held was on the body of ma
tive and the rest who have died were all
of the foreign party,
What has been the treatment of the
wounded poor, who had no friends, or