The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-03
From the Cleveland (ohio) Plain Dealer
THE GERMANS.

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We meet with many new German faces on oui
landing, and in the streets, every day We welcome
them TO the West Ii does good TO see the broad
honest faces, beaming with frankness and cosl can
dor, for we know they are good indexes of thu
truthful hearts, borne under those coarse blue
blouses. They have done well to leave the straight
ened limits of the 'Vaterand," dear as they were
and to seek the broad acres waiting for their hoes
and mattocks, and the work shops open TO the
handlwork, in our own America
We give the Germans good greeting. They ar,
hardy and bold, they are ingenious and persevering
They waste little in finding fault with the nakednes'
of the land, or in hunting out choice locations, bu
they fall to and do their endorsements in RICH
hearty earnest, wherever they heppen to be. They
never fail to strike a profitable vein, and to thriv,
and grow fat upon the products of steady, well
directed industry. sU
You discover German who has just made his
advent our borders; he is surrounded by his rosy
frau and his knot of white haired young derivatives
all sitting upon his household goods, his little all
just landed upon the wharf. He draws much con.
ISOLATION from that pipe of his, and keeps cool and
philosophical as a stole, under all the troubles and
vexations of a stranger in strange land.
IL he is tiler of the earth, and follower Of
father Adams profession, you will see him soor
hard at work telling trees, and turning up the virgin
earth; anon, be has reaped his crops and has need
of granares few years more, you will remark his
well-flled barns, far more inhabtable than his own
house. his fine wellcultvated fields, and that pride
of Dutch farmer, his handsome horses.
Ifhe is artisan, you will see him opening lit
tie shop. Perhaps shoemaker, perhaps watch.
repairer; at any rate exercising respectable and
thrifty calling The German tradesmen the
best among They are thorough and attentive
to their business As nation, they are the most
ingenious and inventive people on the face of the
globe. As inventors, they are the Yankees of Eu-
rope. They have not the sprightliness, nor the
natural cunning or rather craftness of Yankees.
They are quiet, unobtrusve, but deep, hard think
ers. Perhaps il is for the of this crafty trait
that, although they have invented and originated
the most remarkable contributions to the arts and
Sciences they have almost always left other nations
to adopt their first effort, and bring their invention to
perfection. Who invented printing printing presses
and cast types, but these same Germans Who in
vented sundias, watches, and pendulumi-clocks
The Germans Who invented gunpowder, can
mons, and gun-locksi The Germans. Who dis
plate, and on stone, Who mezzotint engraving and
etching' Who invented spectacles, telescopes, and
microscopes Who first built organs and pianos
Who first manufactured paper of linen ragsf Who
first used wind and saw mls' Who first laugh,
the bells to ring sweet chimes almanacs to desg,
nate the days and months, and the changes of the
moonl Who first established mails and sent letters
by post Who first whirled the spinning-wheel
Who invented the air-pump and wooden bellows
Who the thermometer, and afterwards, the applica-
ton ofmercury to il Who invented electrical ma.
CHINESE Who first multiplied editions of books by
stereotypng' To all these, we answer, the Ger
mans And had we time, we might add many other
discoveries and orignations for which we are in
debted to this most ingenious of all nations Among
them are clarionets, hats, pins, and stoves, door
locks the screw-auger, and the cradle for harvest
ing t#8
Such are the men who come from Germany to
great West to enjoy the privileges of republi.
can government and the amplitude of our wide
fields for activity and industry Are not such addi-
tons to our national wealth. Are they not well
worthy of welcome to the land which De Kalb
and others of their countrymen split blood and
wasted fortunes to defendi Moreover, they are a
sensible people; they appreciate institutions.
They early take out the privilege of exercising the
elective franchise. They look not back to the
"Vaterland" when once they have put their hands
to the pow. They adopt this country as their
only home Ere long we see them occupying Offices
of trust They "Burgemeisters, justices of the
peace, councimen, and constabulary dignitaries.
Very naturally they democratic in their politi-
cal creed. As we said BEFORE they a thinking
people; they also reading one; and they seldom
come to wrong conclusions upon this subject. We
say again, WELCOMED!
You are our creditors for many of the arts and
sciences which make life toerable and useful. We
indebted to your country for of our bravesi
defenders. The West will receive you with ex-
tended arms, and welcome you to her fertile lands,
grateful for little tage, and will fill your hcrdy
hands with fruits, and your granares with corn.
Fair plenty shall make You glad, while American
liberty, which forefathers and yours purchased
with their mingled blood, shall protect you in your
domestic tranquility and the pursuit of happiness,