Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-08-06
election Outrages in LouisYIllo.

From the Louisville Courier, Aug.9.
Some of the notori ous DULLES of the Opposition
displayed their valpr yesterday by knocking down
few Dutch and Irish They did it in some instances
in the presence Of The officers OF the law, whose
duty it to have arrested them. Weregret to re-
cord that not made Ia all the intAnces
| in which they should have been made.
No one failed to notice that the groceries, stores,
Sc, kept by foreigners in certain parts Of The city,
snd especially up town. were closed Itlooked much
| like Sunday Some Of these people, no doubt, re-
membered past days Of terror and went to the coun-
try OF locked themselves up 10 their houses There
is as little doubt, however, that many foreigners
voted the Opposition ticket. Some If them solo
their vote for trife in money and others for the
promise of retaining their Places in which they are
now laboriug, while others went into the enemy's
camp on the Mort4rs question, Or The humbug about
the government protecting them agaiLs
into the armies of their native country. And yet
others voted with the Know Nothings, because they
we're afraid of sung shots, brass knucks, and hard
fists.
Prom the Louisville Democrat, Aug. 3.
The old game Of the Know Nothing party, thai Of
beating voters at the polls for voting their honest
sentiments sWelled the majority of the Opposition.
From noon till the close of the polls but few Demo-
cratic votes were cast at the Lafayette Engine
house. and at the Walnut street Precinct in the Sec
end Ward, and the few who voted we're generally
knocked down and beaten as they were retiring
from the Polls This is the freedom of elections in
Louisville. Any poor wretch, low vagabond, could
vote the Opposition ticket with IMMUNITY, and all
was well with the crowd, who generally undertook
to nerpose and decide knotty points for the officers
of the election. Such was the meddlesome inter-
ference Of the outside regulators that they under
took to punish these very indiscreet citizens who
would persist in voting the Democratic ticket Thus
were hundreds of legal voters deferred from the
polls.
When shall e. il thing cease to be? II is a damn
ing blot upon the fair fame Of our city. The pre-
tension that yesterdays election expressed the real
sentiments OF our people and showed ahe condition
OF parties in Louisville, is too absurd for serious
consideration. Every policeman and scores and
hundreds of citizens know better. AT Shsrdines
Precinc' in this county, the conduct Of the round
and bullies was most disgraceful. Dozens Of in
offensive Germans were threatened and knocked
down for presenting themselves at the polls. Some
moved for be ng PIE sen at all, and shot at, IS
they ran away, to preoipitate their fight,
This, too, the "freedom Of the election"
rendered the Democracy BY the regulators Who fol-
lowing their city brethren, undertook to regulate
the county.
In the central wsrds of the city, where no open
breaches Of the peace occurred, many illegal votes
were cast. number Of lais in their teens, and
under tWenty-ons years Of age, were msrshsled, in
some cases we are informed, by the police and voted
in the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Wards. Think Of
this and Of the boosted free elections in Louisville
1t is thing we read OLA myth, something We
have not seen for years past in Louisville. Il is
poorly bestowed honor, that of holding office under
the state Of things presented in Louisville election