The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-22

lapd, by German refugees hundreds # young work
ingnen tui ned homo every Year, buy to spread n
the of their acqusi utsrces all they had gath
cd in trcigu Lands hey .pnhe Of the present system
of oppressiun and dreamed Of better ppier time
TO come But the or, at of he ople des pair.
ing that it oud be- better here. looked ongiug
over the to the Far West, as their only re-
fuge from poverty and nls-ry There. on the blessed
oil OF your republic Already millions ~ suffer- u
brethren iouud new ha'py IA me-tnousands ana
thousands followed them every yenrall painting with
tie same coio's the land wh.r. nothing disturbed
th,m in the pure ui. Of their happ bat the
brsnoe If their friends whom they had left in the
Mir Of III Old C my. Thee was shining the sun
Of liberty spreading blessings and plenty for ALI there
crowned para ties, fattebsd by the sweat Of the
peasant here ibe honest lab. rers not treated
ike cattle but they were honpred aud surc TO get
good wages there every by tie hard work Of his
hands, could become an independent ffeehoder
there every one WAS free citizen of free republic.
had the same rights as his eow. required to
how before any king in the world rhere the
second fatLerand FIR us-apd yet lately when our
distress as its highest pitch. we ate yonr bread,
accompanied the star sraDsled banner, with ,ur
EeeItiest wishes to the battle fields Of Mexico, where
the difference between free people aud people
Of slaves nd were proud VI your ctores.
and brothers fighting with You There, in your coun-
try, the place # refuge pei pa
triotf there tie afflicted und pee Co and rest and
indiFert Icor, whom looking towards the setting
sun, thought they heard the voice of Saviour calling
to them" Cor to me!n and tears filed their eyes at
the thought OF being between them and their
happiness. We were tired OF our old fathsrland and
longing for better more just situation But at once
sr'at revolution knocked ut our doors, and out of
the flames OF burning throne, heard a laundering
voice." People OF Germany, arise from degrade
ton: you also bect free! Look Ear
West, for the lime has come to found an America on
your own soil"
Americans you know those days of February in
Paris. You know how they shook the Old World,
threatening to rend it asunoer You knew how, espe
cialy in Germany, they brought to sudden outbreak
what many past years had quietly prepared You know
town. from village to village with the exception of .
few provn setting all in light flames the pea
SAINTS lonely cottage You know how, from all SUES,
the people rushed into the castles or their trants ask
ing for rights long enough withheld from them You
know that first they answered with car tridges
but then percevng that between them their lords
the question not about rights but about force they
employed force against force teaching those despots
what people can do when resolved to DO free. You
know the bloody struggles on the barbados of Vienna
and Berlin. You know how, after th=ir victory the
generous people though yet bleeding from thousa
sight OF the murderers the mutsted corpses of their
murdered brethren, and force them to pay their due
respects the aving them alone with their
Ing conscitnces. You know that he people of our capt.
tails even in their greatest excitement, did not dsown
their democratic nature. You know they restra ned
Themselves to pakv their long detained fundamsntal
rights respected and acknowledged, viz The tove.
Ieenty Of the people their right govern themselves
by representatives of their free choices the liberty
sreech the right of being judged publicly ures out
OF their midst; and finally. the general right to
arms Having obtained so much they stopped for all
the Constituting Convention they were to elect
Americans, you know how to appreciate this demo.
cretie course
The barbados being cleared away in the prospect of
National Convention for the organization Of free
Federal Union, similar conventions for the orga
nizaon Of the separate States the people returned
order the old enemies fliberty went to work
their old business endeavorng to cheat the people out
Of their acquisitions While they took pains to lead
the iewly awakened national feeling q wrong way, and
we're involving US in wars-while under the mask Of
patriotism, they once more betrayed and tore into
pieces bleeding Polandw while they were ny
the of Austrian desposm against Italy struggle
for independence and liberty, as sacred German
cause endeavopg to induce US to murder arbarously
in other peoples all that dearest to ourselves
while they did every thing to degrade us before the
world, and to MAKE ms bs.sa Ny our neisneors they
lcpeneDt Of our democratic liberty and by
ways to bring back into the old bondage and misery
Lyen the first hopes Of the people failed. They knew
yet too little about democratic FORMS and trusting
good words too much. The princes having ordered in
direct elections all doors were thrown open to in
trigues intimidation, and corruption In short, the
est part Of the votes fell not deserving the
confidence Of the people and well in the general Ma
tional Convention in Frankfort, in the separate
Cow. ntions of the States the obedient servants of
the princes and the adherents Of the old system CT
government constituted large msjorties. The people
thereby bad tue observe their true friends and TO
think Of the future.
White the princes. leaving the people, fed into the
arms Of their camolos and so called constitutional
ministers denied the revolu ton which had ele waited
them to their charlottesville the majority OF the Ger
man National Convention adopted with reluc the
principle Of the sovereignty OF the people in the
of which they had been convoked, then beginning to
Insult that same principle in all their resolutions
while the old servants of absoutism and arisocracy,
together with the decided and weak minded all
the country praised The blessings Of constitutional
Kingdom and euteavored to lull asleep the people wit
the absurd phrase of democratic monarchy, the
serious Of the revolution, wanting real sove-
ignty Of the people marched on in closed ranks, to
conquer for Germany that form of nme mt which
alone is worthy Of free people, and in which alone
tanned
when in Baden, that German state in which poll
teal Intelligence farthest advanced, the dema nd
to put to whether the old monarchicsl govern
mept should be retained be changed into a demo-
cratic republican constitution, had been answered by
arrests and the attempt Of the people to sustain their
rights by force of and to oblge their sovereignty
to be respected, had been overpowered by foreign
toops-when thereby, with us the question Of State
rghte by our confederated princes, had been deter
mined that in no single State the people should be
allowed to send away their prince and consttut.
publican government. this very fact destroyed the
plan Of the republicans to repubcanize the separate
States after the other accordp g to their political
and annexation German federative republic They
agreed unanimously to ceniralize the democratic
movement of all Germany, ami then to work one
man.
ferent parts OF thecountry to prepare the people
for the republic by eecting delegates On the I4th OF
mocratc republican party Of Germany. The business
OF this Congress VAS plain IL composed Of men of
action knowing that they stood amid the storms of
revolution. The same spirit anmating all they did
not spend time with long speeches What for the pre-
sent was nsoI need, the organization ofthe party
IN one powerful body plan was Son agreed tO,and
Froebel Gottlieb Rau, Hermann Kriege, Edward
Meyen,and Hexamer were elected to carry 1t into
cuuon. After this committee, taking their seat in
Berlin were invested with the power to call in cogent
stances, an extraordinary session of this Con-
gre's Trey adjourned till next October. and in the
finn conviction that the future deiversncs of Ger
many relied their efforts the delegates returned to
their Terent provinces, resolved to do their duty in
spite o all dangers and adverities case of need
to consider even life and property small offerings
Americans We give you this exposition of our cir
cumsa nces, because We want you to understand us;
may not view In German republicans visionary
idests, but men standing the ground Of reality.
We reject constitutional chy, not only because
we do not sgrec with the principle and becaue
not ackr owedge another sovereign beside the sover-
egn PEOPLE; not only because knew that the inter-
ess OF the princes directly opposite to the interests
of the people the liberty Of the people beginning just