The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-02-26
70 Mr.. ALFRED SANDERS,

To Mr.. ALFRED SANDERS,
Editor Of the Davenport Gazstle:-
Sir: in your paper Of the 18th inst. having no
ticed, that Nj. s. N. Whiting had complained up
on Mrs. Bomberg and Mr.. I. Hall upon Mr..
Eyser for selling liquor without license you have
added :--"7h Germans, uho ,cere IN heha6'f 9,
fequentisg those places rored rerenge." And
then having related an account Of windows bro
ken in the houses Of Messrs. Whiting and Hall
you have concluded the story with these remarks
"The great majority ofour German citizens are
order.loying and law-abiiing people and sane
ton no such unlawful proceedings, but they, q
We, have some hotspurs among them, who would
be benefited BY few months service in the PEN
itentiary." az
In the next following article, inscribed Ger
man Meeting' you have stated: 1--WE understand
il 10 the intention Of the Germans Of our city, tc
hold meeting this evening, to express their in
|dignation At the course pursued BY a. er Of then
countrymen in taking the law into their own
hand.' BY these remarks you win doubtless
suggest the idea, that the injuries, inflicted upon
the houses Of Mr.. Whiting and Hall, were per-
petrated by those Germans, who were in the hab-
il Of freqaen;ing the houses Of Eyser and Bonn
berg and that even the Germans Of Davenport
are convinced, that few Of their countrymen
have taken the law into their own hands. ~
A society, called "verein'' whose menbersall,
except Mr., .Cozbin and pr. LANCER, are Germans,
having the habit of frequenting the house Of Mr.,
Eyser, where they have reading room and
weekly debates, justly offended by your remarks,
haze resolved to write YOU this letter. go
Weask you, sir, wha, evidence have you, that
Germans, who frequent the house Of Mr.. Eyser,
have vowed revenge and injured the windows OF
Whiting or Hall? az
Will you be so kind, as to name those Ger
mans and the evidence aga INST them? We wish,
that the guilty may be tried and punished. 80
Because your general denuncation reflects up
On al Germans, who frequent the house Of Mr..
Ey.er, we cannot help, for our own defence,
warning your readers to be very cautious in be.
ieving what you say. (6)
You have spoken TO your subscribers ola Ger
man meeting, intended TO express Indignation
against Germans for taking the law into their
own hand, notwithstanding the printed notices,
publicly posted, both in the English and German
language, have proclaimed, that the intention Of
the meeting was, to take measures against the
OF the Maine Temperance Law and in
relation to some remarks Of Enos Tiehenor, Esq.
And beside the meeting was not composed o!
Germans alone, it was called by and consisted Of
he iahabitani, Of the city Of Davenport and the
greater number of speeches delivered were in the
English tongue.
We ask yon, sir, therefore, from what source
10 you draw your information concerning facts
before your eyes7 %
The German inhabitants Of Davenport, wish
ng to live here peaceahly and detesting all at
empts for exciting unkind feelings among the
different nationalities, will be very sorry if they
shall be often constrained to repel unmerited at
lacks of frivolous public writers or speakers
We beg you, sir, to insert this letter aud your an
swer in your next paper. (s)
E. w. ASMUSSEN,
President Of the "yere n"