The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1853-11-11
From the chillico,he Advertiser,
Foreign Postage.

FOreLRu GobtakO'
Information has just reached :he Pos
Office Department, through the Bremen
office, that the Post Office Department OF
Prussia, OF the Grand Duchy of Neck
lenberg Siroliiz and Of the Ducby Of Sax
ony Altenburgh, have reduced their post
age 10 and from Bremen on letters to and
from the United States, TO the uniform
rate Of five cents, making the full rate of
postage to and from those States respect,
lively by the Bremen line OF steamers, fif>
teen cents instead of twenty-five, the rate
hitherto charged.-E1.
We concur with the Plain Dealer tha,
this paragraph is suggestive. Not many
years ago Tho postage on the same route
was upwards of forty cents, recently it
was reduced to twen,y>one, and now
il is put down 10 fifteen. The result
OF this reduction will be an increased in
terchange of letters between the coun-
tries specified, and our own. From that,
other results will flow, noiseless but pow>
crful in their operation. For obvious
reasons, our American newspapers do moi
circulate to any great extent on the con.
tinent of Europe. Communication is
kept up mainly by le.'ers-,he number If
which sent ou, and brought over by every
steamship, is incalculable. For instance,
the letters addressed 10 the Germans in
Cincinnati alone, which were either iu>
iured o. jeopordzed by the burning ofthe
mail, few days ago, numbered not less
than two thousand. Taking that case as
basis OF calculation. il will be seen tha,
the foreign letter business is an enormous
one. .n..
The direct consequences Of the mighty
river of written thought which is ever
pouring from our contry right into the
heart OF Europe are full Of moment. The
American German tells liis dear friends in
the fatherland, Of the religious and civil
liberty, the political equality, the cheap
and easily cultivated land, the spon'a-
neous harveHe, the abundont opportuni-
ties for mechanical labor, the high price
that II commsnds, and the ten thousand
physical, spiritual and mental advantages
Of residence in this great RePablic.-
He coniures them to come over and share
his happiness. They do SO. Thousands
arrive every week, yes every day--ai our
Atlantic ports, They in turn. write back
to their friends, and The tide Of emigration
goes on increasing from year to year, add
ing to our strength and greatness. But
This is not nl. Every letter sent 10 Eu>
rope by German in this country is an
advocate OF Rebuplicanisn-siIent bli
eloquent. The viltues ofour government
aTe extolled and con,rasted with the in
justice, the cruelty, the stripes and the
honds of monarchial or despo,ic rule
Those who lack means TO escape from lis
servi,ude, are led TO ponder op their
distracted and hopeless safe. The intense
desire for freedom. thus awakened, in
their breast, is fed by riff clion they
chafs in their chains-a restless republi
can sentiment is aroused, which needs
only time and occasion 10 break forth in
one mighty voice and asser, the rights Of
man. The tyrants of Europe may
guard their thrones with triple steel,
they may subsidize the public press, they
may poison the fountains of education
with their occursed doctrines, they may
issue their ban against secre! societies,
but until they burn the American mail,
they cannot smother The fame of freedom
which is yetso purify Europe for the bless
cd millennium.
Three cheers for cheap postage and
human progress.