The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-02
The Democrats Republicans of Germany.

Tribune. Ibis address may be regarded as one of
the most important documents of the age, and
shows that the Republican principle in Germany
has taken deep root in the minds and hearts of the
people. The German Democracy do not appeal to
the passions or prejudices of mankind but purpose
to effect the social and political regeneration of
their country by pacific means. They bring rea-
son, not force, to their aid. The following ex-
tracts-the whole address being too long for us 10
Pubiish-wil be read with interest:
When in Baden, that German State in which po-
hucal intelligence was farthest advanced, the de-
mand TO put 70 vote whether the old Monarchcal
/ Government should be retained or be changed into
Democratic Republican Constitution had been
answered by arrests and the attempt of the peo-
pie to sustain their rights by force of arms and to
o0lge their sovereignty to be respected, had been
| oVerpoWered by foreign troops-when, thereby
| with us the question of State Rights by our con-
! federated princes had been determined that in no
single State the people should be allowed to send
away their Prince and constitute Republican Gov
eminent, this very fact destroyed the plan of the
| Republicans to republicanise the separate States
one after the other according to their political in
tellgence, and to create in the quiet way of eX-
| ample and annexation a German FedeFative Re-
public. They agreed unanimously to centrase the
Democratic movement Of all Germany, and thentO
| work as one man.
For this purpose all associations organized in the
different parts Of the country were to prepare the
people for the Republic by electing delegates On
the 18th of June, this year, met the first Congress
OF the whole Democratic Republican party of Ger
many. The business Of this Congress was plain.
| 1t was composed Of men of action, knowing that
| they stood amid the storms of revolution. The
same spirit animatng all, they did not spend time
| with long speeches. What for the present was
most needed, was the organization of the party in
one powerful body A plan was soon agreed to,
and central committee of five, viz the citizens
Julius Froebel, { Ottlieb Rau Hermann Kriege, Ed
ward Meyen and HeIamer were elected to carry
it into execution. After this committee taking
their seat in Berlin, invested with the power
to call in cogent circumstances extraordinary
session of this Congress, they adjourned till next
October, and in the firm conviction that the future
dellverance of Germany relied their efforts,
the delegates returned to their different provinces,
resolved to do their duty in spite of all dangers
and universities, and in case Of need, to consider
even life and property as small offerings.
Americans we give you this exposition of our
circumstances, because we want you to understand
us, that the people of the greatest common sense
on earth may not view in German Republicans
visionary idealists but men standing on the ground
of reality. We reject Constitutional Monarchy not
only because we do not agree with the principle,
and because we cannot acknowledge another
sovereign beside the sovereign people not only be-
cause we know that the interests of the Princes
are directly opposite to the interests of the People,
the liberty of the people beginning just exactly
where the power of the Princes ends not only be-
cause we consider Monarchy in every shape as an
lndlgnlty, and Constitutional Monarchy as a sys-
tenn of contradiction and lies which cannot last,
but where mighty aristocracy surrounds the
THRONE guarding in it the foundation stone of their
monopoes, and being essentially interested TO pre-
vent the great mass of the people from exercising
their sOvereignty-we reject it especially, because
in Germany it has become an mpossibility. Like
the murderous attack at Lexington, pushing your
fathers into open insurecton and violently tearing
them forever from the land with which they were
connected by thousand ties of remembrance and
habit, so with us the massacres at the barricades
have made On eternal breach between People and
Princes. The blood of citizens, shed there, will
not burning in the soul of the people till the
last relics of Monarchcal sympathies gone for
ever. And If even the people were yet inclined to
reconciliation, the Princes themselves make il en-
tirely impossible. They show it already, most
openly, that they are resolved to take back by
force what force extOrled from them. Their loyal
servants closely surround them; the military is sys-
tematically separated from the people and dressed
for civil war; The tyrants, driving formerly their
soldiers against the French Republic, OF selling
them to England for wasting your land and Staying
your liberty, are inviting them now against their
own flesh and blood, presuming to find in them al
ways Obedlent murderers of their own parents and
of their own liberty and happiness Under those
circumstances, no one can seriously think of q
peaceable agreement between People and Princes,
or of Constitutional Monarchy. All who talk Of
it consider it either short passage to Republi-
can Government, or as back way to old Absolu-
tism. Those want to steer ahead, the others back
ward the one are for unlimited liberty and sove-
reigny of the People, the other for unlimited des-
potism and sovereignty of the Princes. A recon-
Citation OF these parties is impossible the strug
undone
Citizens of America the feelings of the Repub-
llcans of Germany are not narrowed by the boun-
diaries of their country-their hearts beat for a
hnent and for all mankind, like yours. We address
you frankly and in full confidence, because we know
that you are great enough to understand u.s. Ysu
are the first race of a new mankind no more sepa-
rated by national prejudices In your country, the
sons of the different nations of Europe first associ
ated under the banner of Liberty, as citizens of
new world. You will not think us Missionaries, be-
cause trust that, the banner of Liberty waving
on the palaces Of kings, in Europe, too the nations
will associate peaceaby, and find no more reason
TO hate bear i'll will TO each other. You will ac
knowledge that struggle is a sacred one, being
the struggle for the pacfcation of the world and
You will surely assist us, when the question is to
execute the great idea of Thomas Je6erson-the
regeneration Of the Old World by the principles Of
the New. We know very well that you cannot
help us a nation, without involving you in war and
dsOwning the first principle of your foreign politics.
but the aid we want single individuals can afford
us without endangering the whole. We declare it
freely and openly, we want money, that RerUus
reruDp without which the best cause cannot sue
coed. Though, therefore, heartless money-mongers
call us beggars, are not ashamed to beg for the
deliverance of the world, and we know very well
that the great mass of your people do not disdain
us for that. Our enemies have inexhaustibe
means at their command, and our democracy is as
yet poor. Willingly we offer all we have-life and
prOperty-but if not aided from without it il almost
impossible for to stand the struggles Of the next
future. Americans the notice of your enthu-
siasm for the elevation of the nations of Europe,
reaching us from beyond the ocean, encouraged us
to ask your assistance in this open way, for we
know Americans never used TO show enthusiasm
for any cause for which they were not also ready
to sacrifice something when asked for.
The German Republic must come and will come.
Our task is but to level the path and shorten it.
As long peace is maintained and we are not de-
prived Of right of propagang the principles Of
pure democracy, by the way of free press and free
speech, and to introduce them into practice by the
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