The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-08
THE GREAT GERMAN MEETING
TO RECEIVE
, HERR AECkER
AT TAMMANY HALL.
RED UBLICANISM.
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TREMENDOUS ENTHUSIASM.
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THE RED FLAG, AND RED CAP,
RED REPUBLICANS
TREMENDOUS ENTHUSIASM.


last nj ght, through an immense crowd, into Tam
many Hall. 1t was a meeting of the German po-
pulation of this city, called to receive the great
German patriot, HERR HEcKER, and to hear from
his lips-just fresh as he is refugee from tyran-
ny, and coming from the wonderful scene OF
German republican slruggle-an account of the
efforts, the doings, the hopes, and the pro spects
of republlcanism in Europe, and especially IN
Germany.
II we had not been in company with Mr. Hecker,
and had hold OF his arm, it would have been I'M
possible TOR US to have made our way through the
crowd; but Mr.. Hecker was fortunately recOg-
nlZed by some OF the crowd of Germans, who en-
deavored to make room tor us, and we fought our
way CALAMITY through, the dense mass cheered
"which was which," till, on arriving at the plat
form, when the paper and pencils being drawn
from our pocket, betrayed the Herald reporter, and
exhibited the Simon Pure, the real Herr Hecker,
the acknowledged and discovered hero of the as
semblsge with Tedoubled shouts.
Mr.. Ed. Richter, highly respectable German
of this city was unanimously called to the chair
was appointed Secretary. A number of Vice Pre-
sidents and Secretaries were further proposed and
accepted with tumultuOus noise. The enthusiasm
OF the meeting, and the intense sympathy exhibited
for the cause of revolt IN Europe, surpasses all
power OF description. II was some time before
the animation and feeling of the meetingwere suffi-
clenty subsidized, to be able to proceed, with any
order, TO the business OF the meeting. A red cap
OF liberty, and red flag, were then hoIsted, and
the sight OF them again excited the immense crowd
who renewed their cheers and plaudits The
heart of Raspail would have leaped for JOY
Louis Blanc would have shed tears of rapture
Barbes would have grlnned and chuckled, In his
prison at Vncennes, to see and hear the loud, rap
turous enthusiasm with which the red flag was
greeted 1t plainly proved that, whatever the
cooler heads and hearts of few may mediate,
the mass OF mankind, when once put in motion
and reused up from the tranquility OF daily life
and occupation, are naturally red republicans, and
belong, lnstnctively, to the mountain pa1ty-that
they all naturally 60 tor an equal division Of pro-
perry, and tor an equal share, by hook by crook,
OF gin sings and sherry cobblers.
General WALBRIDGE, having been invited on the
occasion, then came forward to introduce the
brave and gallant Hecker to the meeting. After
the loud cheering, with which he was greeted,
had subsidized, he spoke follows -
Friends nd fellow citizens The uprising of the un-
armed people Of Europe to vndicate the inse BILE
rights OF free government guaranteed by Heavens
high chanceTy presents, for the admiration OF man
kind of the most imposing moral spec Of all
history and If they shall be able to ultimately succeed
in eectiDg the success of the great and benevolent
mt in which they engaged their labors upon
the welfare and happiness of the human will be
inferior in their consequences only to the institution
OF that blessed religion sealed by the blood of God him.
self To you. cir, among the most conspicuous,
who took part in that work behalf of this
assemblage of your couptrymen and friends tender
to you, in their name, cordial and hearty vel
come. You have commended, amid the thrones of the
old world for the blessings that our fathers had a.
cured here; and though your efforts we're imme-
datel! successful there stl renal abu grou nd
for confidence and hope, but for sorrow and de-
spair We too apt to limit the
OF Providence by the standard Of physical ex.
silence. Revolutions having for their object the eIe
vation OF the human race, are often commenced in
one age and terminated in another 1t is not in ac-
eordapce with the will Of heaven that any great moral
or political movement should be- accomplished by any
people, only after years of toll suffering and Attic
become fed for he hiOh
conservative blessings that Providence in the dispen
saton of his merces, intends to bestow The Ameri.
can revolution Itself was only achieved after the ar
mics Of freedom bad passed through the Jordan of
affction their locks dripping with blood OF all the
OBJECTS yet undertaken by man the establishment Of
free institutions has been found the most difficult
For thousands of years have looked I'D to the
high heavens and, as they gazed upon that am
phtheatre of magnifcence, they had noted the
order and the regularity, the beauty and the
decorum, that mark the movements of the ce-
iestal world but they had in vain endeavored
to nd ike rules Of order and Of beauty the con-
troll OF human action, and the regulation of human
government Though the world had existed for sly
thousand years and its population had swelled to
eight hundred millions it reserved for the Amer;
can people on the virgin soil of the world sus.
The rst free government the bs sis of written con-
sttution and the represe alive principle Nor could
TINS nave been achieved only on the broad rich and
extended shores of this hemisphere Since tb,
accomplishment, that decided for all time that the
Saxon race must be divided into great separate
empires. the men of America have poured forth their
unceasing prayers, that the blessings Of free
tiops that We had secured here might be extended
over the exhausted soil and to the crippled energies
OF the men OF the old world Nor have their PRAYERS
been In vain. The benign influence of our institu-
tons extending abroad has everywhere tended to the
political elevation of mankind. There can be no
question but that liberty restrained by constitutional
law Is the present dominant sentiment of the are
nor can be questioned that the American people are
guiding this sentiment it convulses the ocean of
human passion abroad. In America, as nothing had
to be removed free Institutions rapidly advanced
to maturity, without obstruction but in Eurone
hahi
and the veteran prejudices of a thousand years
There was time when the in the north Of Europe
convened their assemblages, amid the gloom of
German forest, and announced their will by
the cashipg Of their shields. Since that period
they have passed through all the gradatons from bar
barism to the highest advance of civilized States
During all these vicssitudes the has ty
successfully over the people The latter had
their minds with the struggles of the early
republics but they then learned that liberty had been
wild and tumultuous, and apprebendlng the evils of
ne oppression of despofm But the in creased faci
lites for the diffusion Of intelligence has lighted up
the common mind Of the people and each man feels
portion OF the political power of the State Each man
feels that he is integral portion of the national
and that an aggregate majority of their
individual Wills, upon any given subject sttutes
that irresistible public sentiment that should control
and give efficiency to law The intelli-
gence Of the people thus becomes the guardian of no.
puar liberty. Since Luther first dis PLAYED the stan
dard OF intelle ctua emancipation two antago nist-
cal systems of thought and government have silently
encountered each other, in the person of the same
people. In this protracted contest, the men of
Europe have derived some knowledge of their own
Influence and power. Among those who sought
to impress his countrymen with the great truth,
that whenever a governme mt fails to advance the
happiness and prosperity of the people that live
under 1t, there remains with them the inhere mt
right to alter abolish It, None have been more CON
spicuous serviceabe than him, who upon this occa
sion have delighted to honor. Here, deeply seated
In the affections of the nds of his youth and Of
his countrymen, who had preceded him here, as well
as among the native sons Of America he will have
opportunity Of witnessing the practical operation
OF that system Hfree government, by which separate
state soyeregnties harmoniousiy bound by one
great federal union Here may he witness, beneath
the outspread sky of the bright ornament of heaven
the men of America, peacefully assembling, and
quietly discussing the policy they believe most essen
al to the welfare and prosperity of themselves and to
the continued advance of their free institutions; and
may that mysterious Providence that has hitherto up
held his countrymen in their struggles towards po
litica freedom, secure to them the benign blessings
that he may here everywhere behold.
General WalhrIdpe then lntroduced Mr.