Activate Javascript or update your browser for the full Digital Library experience.
Previous Page
–
Next Page
OCR
Se
i.
26 THE KNOW NOTHING ALMANAC 3
whole subject, your: committee conclude
that the foreign-born population, aided by
would-be Americuns, planned und set ‘in
motion the machinery from which all the dis-
turbances originated on the day of election,
In proof of every declaration herein
made, whether direct or implied, your com-
inittee refer to the accompanying testimony
as published in the Weekly Journat of the
16th inst. The committee ask that the evi-
dence as above-named be spread on the
journal of the Council, and further, that this
report be adopted.
Jos, A. Gititiss, Chairman,
The Louisville Journal of the 14th comes
laden with a large number of affidavits,
made under oath, demonstrating the foreign
origin of the disturbances. The affidavits
are chiefly from Irish and German Roman
Oatholics. They are educed from persons
who would rather lay the blame upon Ame-
ricans, and we must, of necessity, believe
the oaths of our enemies, when given
against their own party. The origin of the
riot is fixed upon the foreign population by
their own reluctant showing,
The Journal makes the following com-
ments:
“In preparing the affidavits to show how
these riots originated and who were their
authors, we have not had an opportunity to
seek out witnesses by whoin, doubtless,
many facts could be proved of even greater
importance and significance than any we
have published; we have taken facts only
as they were voluntarily furnished us by
others. We have been informed by reliable
gentlemen, and, if necessary, affidavits to
the fact can be produced, that, on the Sun-
day evening previous to the election, an
Trish servant girl in the employment of Dr.
Yandell, begged the doctor not to go down
town on the day of the election, telling him
there would be danger, that she knew more
than he did, and that she knew more than
she dared to tells and also that.an Irish
girl in the employ of Mr. Simrall, on the
Sunday previous to the election, earnestly
entreated Mr. Simrall and his son not to go
into the city on the day of the election, for
the Irish were armed and intended to fire
from their windows and kill the Ameri-
cans. We have also been informed that, on
the day of the election, about noon, an
Irishman on horseback, a particular de-
scription of whose person has been given,
rode rapidly from house to house, in the
neighborhood where the riot in the First
Ward was commenced and urged the Ger-
maus that the time had come to arm them-
selves and begin the attack upon the
Atcricans,”
AMERICANS WILL RULE
AMERICA.
fomn six years since, a brazen-faced
demagogue asserted, in the manner of a
threat, that 50,000 Irishmen could be rallied
within sound of the City Hall bell. And
elsewhere Germans have clamored for Ger-
man organizations to impress a German
policy on our Government. Thus has Ame-
ricanisin, or jn other words, an American
nationality been challenged by those who
will be Europeans in our midst. ‘These Eu-
ropeans must expect no quarter here, if
they think to try their nationalities in the
flold against ours. As adopted citizens, by
suffrance we will share with them all that
they can fairly claim ; but as foreigners, pit-
ting their strength against ours, we will put
them down. We have the right and the
power to govern our own country, and it is
in accordance with common sense that we
should do so—notwithstanding the irra-
tional cant of political jockies who trade
away the land of their birth for offices
secured by perjury.
OBJECTS OF THE SEVERAL
PARTIES,
Jupaina from the appearance of things,
the main objects of the four great Parties
of the country are these :—
Tux Srwarp Wia REPUBLICANS, OR
Ksyow Somermincs—To take care of “the
colored population,” and assist + John
Hughes in damning Brooks,
Tre OLD NATIONAL AMERICAN 21 YEARS?
NATURALIZATION WuIGS—To weep over the
memory of Henry Clay and Daniel Web-
ster, and execrate Seward and his “ friend”
Bishop Hughes, who have ruined the trne
Whig party, with the assistance of Grecley
and Weed.
Tar OLp Line or ADMINISTRATION Party
or Democrats—To take care of the Foreign-
ers and the spoils.
Tne AMERICAN PARTY—To take care of
America, the American people, and Ameri-
can interests.
bi
vad:
a é