Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-07-27
FOREIGNERS READs
ELECTION RIOTS
DreadfuI Loss of Life!!!

midst, in civilized and enlightened e0mmnnity,
are without parallel.
The following Incidents and loss Of life and prop
srty, without comment note, is as near as we
could get at the ouirsges committed II viii salts
y those living at distance, that the greatest, the
most vile outIsges ever known in any country, has |
been perpelrated in The free city Ct Louisville,
Kentucky.
Before the polls were open half an hour the Know
Nothings took possession of them, preventing all
Democrats and ami foreigners from voting
The first fight took place between an American
and an Irishman, in the vicinity Of the Kentucky
engine house, WHICH resulted in the death Of the
Irishman, who died in Jail The American We be-
lieve was hardly hurt.
man named Townsend was shot and stabbed on
Jeerson street, while walking from his store 10 his
residence. He wilt probably die
A German shoemaker was killed while harmless
ly walking home, in the Second Ward.
crowd Of KnoW NOthings ATTACKED two Ger
mans; who we're standing in front of their shop and
would have maltreated them had they not made
good their escape.
we heard Of five Germsns who were lying in
Drug store in dying condition, on JtfersOn above
Preston street.
gang Of bullies infested the upper plrt of town
and iors DOM several tenemenis the bridge,
90 jefferson street. and cruelty beat several Ger
lnlns robbed them Of all the vaua5:sa 10 their pos
session, and broke eSey article offuruiure n their
1 houses.
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| on Jsferson street, and burned to the ground.
TIE Shelby street Catholic Church broken open,
searched and many things b7okgg.
The mob then proceeded to the Court II 'use, ana
| get possession of canon and several guns. with
| which they mlrehed through the Second snd First
Wards. L ter in the evening, we saw them march
! ing down Jefferson, suppose to the Seventh and
Eighth, carrying bsnner with the motto, " Amer
tea for americans"
At the First Ward, we heard Of three Gnm4ns
Ia lei n,,I. ibnirr
dwellings Main street, hut were foil we'd hy the
mob, fred on in The midi of men and children,
! and afterwards dragged cut, numerically beaten
until they fell senseiess,
Jesse Hughes, good Democrat, was BEATEN, cut
and shot so badly, a. tae corner of jefferson and
| jackson stree 8, that he died shorty sf or.
At the Fret Ward there continual row in
| which several men I've could not learn how many
or what side) got killed and mortslly wounded
During the Vhole night that part Of town lamiaa-
ted from the eonfagrdtion of the houses Of poor and
psdcedbte GerdHs, eel By the base iRceRdGrs match
We heard OF two cooper shops, in which nobody
was, that were set on fire, they we're opposite X.
Atkinson's park house Main street,
While the brewery Jefferson vas in flames
German leaped from the house, tried to escape the
blows aimed at his head, ard nearly succeeded,
when man whom he was passing in his fight
knocked him down with a monster club, the crowd
gathered around him aHd beat him till he lay in
sensible At the Sixth Weird at the Court House,
the Know RCthings were determined noEe but one
of their order should vote; not democrat but
particularly foreigner, dsre go up the steps. Sew
eral lrshmen were attacked on the corner of Fifth
By the Know Nothing bullies ss thsy passed from
one poll to another; we ssW en- uniqcky lrishnan
who got H. but found the place too hot for him. jump
ed out of the second story on the ground for which
he was taken to jail.
A man, we believe named Kelly, was shot in the
Court House square through the heart, and then ia
ken to jail to die we suppose
Two others were lying in the yard all night who
had been shot and brutally Gu. during the fight in
the evening,
The Eighth Ward was the crownug scene of SILL;
here death and destruction went hand in hand. The
Irish we're driven from the polls; they retsliaed,
in which we heard American was shot. Tore
venge their brother, they attacked a whole ROW of
| frame buildings belonging to Mr. Quinn; shot IN
among women aud children, then broke in and took
out two men and tried 10 kill them; succeeded with
one and hung the other amid tantalising gibes
and ribad je5ls unbecomiDg even to canlbals or
vamryers WOMAN WHO ATTEMPTED To SAVE
HER HUSBAND, WAS PITCHED down STAIRS, BREAK
ING HER NECK AND LIMBS THAT SHE DIED.
Several other men were killed. the exact number we
cannot learn.
The mob finding their game becoming scarce set
the torch to the houses; the women fed; ONE WE
HEARD OF, WHO WAS FLYING WITH YOUNG IN
FAINT IN HER ARMS, WAS FOLLOWED BY A HARD
HEARTED WRETCH wHO COMING UP, PUT THE
, MUZZLE OF THE WEAPON To THE CHILDs HEAD,
FIRED AND DASHED ITS BRAINS OVER ITS NoTHkR S
ARMS.
Up TO a late hour, the h7rzsn Illuminated aOih
the flames Of burned Dwellings,, in ah-h many poor
honest ,roykjqg nam, Nth his rife and dear iiHe
ones persisted in preference TO coming out 10 meat
death from pistols and bOTis kHiUss in the hands o.
frtenlen
At Oakland, a mob from the eth and Sih wards
led on by - Wix and Gao. Jones, made q sorte
On the polls badly beat several Germans, who re-
trea. ed as quick as possible One of the Germans
t died at o'clock yesterday morning
An Academia! discharge of pistol shot boy
in the leg and man il the hip at The Sth Ward
about noon on Monday.
The mob continue ell night on the wa'ch for the
id Irish ami Ddteh. To-day irishm Al
got beat Market street, so had that be is mt ex-
pected to live, he vas arrested and put in Jail. The
mob became excited at he Court House, AID would
have again went on with their diabOical pra tees
had it not hesn for the exoraOas of Judge Bullock
and Mayor B4rbee; Capt. Rousseau got decree
1 from the Mayor to organize a company Of ctizeT
police for the protection CT property andlfe. Tn.
mob, we informed while the police organ
e iz;ng at the Court House, badly beat on From
e strCet-LOuisraIe Democrat, august, 1855.
Such is brief portraiure of the bloody riots il
Louisville in 1855. 1t constitutes adlrk chapter il
our history as a free people, which can never bt
: wiped out. Its very reading must make the blood
Of our adopted citizens still run cold in their veins
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a to son to remotest generations.
t Soon after these terrible scenes the Hon. NEIL s
BROWN OF this city addressed letter to the Know
, Nothings of Louisville, stimulating them to renewed
effort 'to redeem the country from the wes of for
eign influence" Here is / sample of it. Let th,
foreigner read
al would despair of The republic if l did not be
lieve there was enough of stern AmeicaniSm left
redeem the country from the evils of foreign iLfu.
euce. The foreign element now in our midst migh
o be borne without further accumulation. But III,
! GOths the Hans and the VandqLs coming nth al
their Wd furious L1a1less and centiOus ideas of 5er
ty 10 riot delicate and compiler sysm of govern
nqeRt The gates of Rome must be closed or tn
terms of admission limited and restricted, eis
her most sacred rites will be profaned and trampeC
under foot.
, "Let us make one unbroken effort to vindicstt
our rights against foreign aggression. Let max
eUsry sLdof the coming conflict HOT sOih true native
born American Indignation"
The field was made shot" and other scenes of ric
were added to the already deep disgrace of that un
fortunate city
The scene is now changed, and this same party
with their same leaders, Hon. N S. BRowN among
the number are insulting the intelligence of the
fors IN orc nv rvino In mako them heleve that the