The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-17

In an article upon schoolcraft's work on the In.
dams In America. our author states that the Cher
okees are more kindly treated than the Germans
10 this country, because they have schools among
He says:
"a handful of CherokeeA are better of than ak
millions lone milliool OF German Americana, who
are compelled to contribute largely to the schools
where English alone 10 taught, but only here and
there where there u a very large German popula-
ton, as special favor obtain the establishment of
school where German is taught The dominant
English majority In the United States evidently
fear the intellectual superiority which would be
exhibited by population endowed with German
culture, and accordingly do nothing to provide for
instruction therein The result is savage DULLES,
and ruffians from whom nobody IL secure and who
make the streets and the open country without the
city as dangerous, and even more 90, than ever
the spessart was. In spite of all the pr etended re-
spect for the female sex. very young grls are ex-
posed to the most fearful brutalites when they go
from home without on escort! This results from
the want Of education to which the growing Ger
man youth in America are also subject''
Here we take leave Of our grumbler for the pres-
ent hoping that his eyes mny get cleared of their
NOTES before we meet with him again His assump.
ton that all the taste, culture refinement, and love
Of art in the world belong to German terati, pro-
fessors and other cultivated classcs wont hold wa
ter. Indeed. with all respect for the many excel
lent and useful qualities OF those gentlemen, many
VI whom we personally honor and esteem in a very
high degree, are free to say that q class they
themselves stand in some need of culture not only
In the supreme art OF common sense, but III some
Of the ordinary amenities Of life. For instance,
we have heard learned professor declaim on
American childisbness and want Of refinement,
when his own hands exhibited striking ignorance
of soap and the nail BRUSH and his shirt appa
had not been changed for fortnight. And
member an article in a former number Of the Ats-
land giving account of the ice cream saloons Of
New York, where the author described himself
eating elmer from whose ncongruous variety
any man of stomach more refined than Hottentot
would shrink back in horror. That convinced US
that if critic had something to teach in respect
to art, good taste, and German culture" he had
more to learn than had yet been dreamed of in his
philosophy. g-. ..r ar. .gl ntra
With as little disposition possible to conceal
the faults or exaggerste any virtues that may exist
in America, we suggest. for the consideration Of
this writer, (and others may improve by the sug.
gestion,) that he would render much better SER
vice his atberland by reporting there what there
is in this Republic which ia worthy Of German
imitation, rather than by uselessly charging upon
our weaknesses and evils. The latter may be more
grateful to the monarchs and princes who live
upon the German people, and would fain preserve
that agreeable mode Of existence; but the former
would be infinitely more beneficial to the millions
who long for liberty and equal rights. We fear
the writer in the Ausland must be pronounced n
bad patriot towards bis native country; and that
whatever semblance of truth there may be in his
condemnation of that he has adopted, 1t is go ex-
aggeratcd and one-sided that he must pass for q
bad patriot towards this also. ....,.