Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-12-08
POLITICS..
From The Men rpri i.cen,n.

the Men York Ecenin. Pns'.J
The attack which the Richmond Wing, one Of the
leading Journals upon the side Of Harrison, has made
upop The German population OF Western Virginia, is,
we perceive, copied into many other prints II known
to our readers that considerable portion ot the Wes-
tern territory of Virginia IS settled by the descendants
of German emgranls, aud that NJ the recent eci"n
they gave for the most part, Their VOTES for the an
Buren, electors This has occasinned the furious onset
10 hch we allude, and which, although it has once
appeared in paper, again transcrbe IN order 10
mike It the subject OF re;nark or TIVE:
The Ango-Saxrn haters themselves, the de-
through five centuries, have had their
seendan,s Of the Dutch whipped Philip SPAIN
independence against the combined Catholics OF tile
word-bu by descendants suaban Dat h, whose history
whose governments have h-en medatscd
landmarks erased from The map Of Europe and who
understood could be male TO understand the first pn
eplc Of civil liberty hese nave osered tue low lands ana
While The recuon winch the fat inspires, IS IN some re
.prcts Illuminating, hers cheering-hnte force and error
came, long maintain the unequal c"mha, against intelligence
Bt even this solid mass of nsnny had awaited nothing had
only the and leg innate voice al the people OF Nsnn crn
do so only because the great rcn-the
rson-bas heen affected by Bu, there be power with the
s n.'"' >'~>''''
Was it enough to call the present population Of
Western Virginia brntes aud fools. but must the
flow Of railing and abuse reach their ancestors, Who
are these Suabian Dutch, rs the Richmond Wing
cnlls them; these Germans of the Suabian who,
that journal preends, only distinguished by their
stupidity and their ignorance of the first prnc pies
Suevi, that mighty Northern people, whose va"r and
ml'try skill, and untnsrable spirit Of independence,
made the Roman empeTors 10 treble on their thrones
They are the people among whom literature awoke
in Germany from the lethargy of the middle ages
Their M'nnesingrrs and Mristersngers were the
fathers of German poetry aud their Nebeluncenlied
is the great epic of Germany Their dialect the Upper
German cultivated and esteemed il was before the
age of Luther would have been at this moment The Ian
guagc o literature throughout Germany, but for the
circumstance that Luther wrote in another dialect and
brought il INTO vogue The Suaban house of Eohens,au
len welded Tor more than century the dfstnics Of the
German empire and furnished of the most Illus
trions Of the empernrs, distinguished alike by their Ia
Tents for Government and the era,y with which they
encouraged and urged the diffusion Of knowledge
among their subjects.
Nor can il be sad that the history Of the Suabian
Germans has been written. Ii is written lumn.
ousy in the ancient literature of GERMANY written in
the foremost page of the chronicles of the German en-.
pre-written by modern historians of their own cou n
try, who have compiled the annals both of Snain in
modern times and Suaba IN the time of the Romans
That part of the ancient circle OF Suabia has been
7nedatissd in other words that since 1896 the DOM
MON Of many OF its petty soveregns has been rued
In the larger princpaltes is true ennuuh but it does
not follow that the Liberties OF the sahect we're les
sened by that change and ever that were the case
1t was a chang.-effrcted by tina, military power
which overSn and changed the face Of all Europe and
which the; Suabans had means Of resisting
Than the other nations What is called mcdlatisa
ION has been going on more or less all over the world
il SIMPLY the consolidation Of smaller govrrnmen
into greater The Anglo. Saxon Heparchy media
tised into government-Wales and Scotland and
Ireland have been medatsed and have lost their sepn
rate existence as Governments Why the poor Suab.
should be especially stgmatzed for submitting 10
the fate, cannot But the greater part of
the Suabian circle has not been mcdatised The
kingdom of Wirtemhurs, the Grand Dutchy Of Baden ,
and two smaller princpalit,es comprising the
larger part of the Suab an circle, have no, been
diatscd, and remain immediate members of the Ger
man confederation.
The descendants of the Suabins in Western vir.
ginia have, therefore, blush for the stock
from which they have descended Whether their
cestors were ignorant, the Richmond Wing would
have us believe at the first principles of civil liberty
it hardly necessary To inquire Their posterty in that
State have shown, by their recent vote that then nj
least en ghlcned in regard TO that important in
terest of the human race.
SF.em ne geeas,ssh sa,asa.ea2 ssa,nc, Nor.
We need no better proof OF the Aristncracy of the
present Wing party than the conduct Of some of their
leading presses towards the Democrats. They have
MT only regarded MS unfit to reason with-carlca.
tured our language and our acts-nvenrd The mos, ex
travaqant tales respecting prominent and their
opnions-adopted notices implying their superiority,
and their endra voring TO gain suf
ages; but they have also attributed to the gross-st
ignorance and the meanest vulsarity OF those prints
which have thus acted, the Richmond Wing has heen
most conspicuous. II has frequently asserted that the
educated and intelligent portion of the community in
the Union were Wings; and that they were such be.
cause they thus intelligent and educated. 1t has
proclaimed, that the low, vulgar and ignorant we're
Democrats. These assertions made, almost with
out any qualification, on every occasion which APP
peared fitting to the conductors of that paper dnrinp
the late campaign, and all, thought, for political
effect The course of the Wing, however, since the
termination of the campaign, in reerating those de-
clarations has convinced that it's conductors really
the sentiments they have expressed refer.
ence TO this matter In late article in that paper we
have found evidence to produce that conviction Init
those declarations made: that "but for few coun
ties Of suabsn Dutch Whose people cannot speak or