The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-08-30

New YORK STAATs-ZEITUNG.-The Ssaats-
Zeitung,o New York which ranks deseryedlg,
first among German journals in America, de-
votes three columns, upon as many successive
days, to a calm yet energetic discussion Of the
question: The future Of the German element
in the United States" The writer has evident
~ been for many years, an American citizen;
understands his countrymen thoroughiv; and
unltcs the tenderest interest in their welfare to
accurate knowledge of their faults and the egils
they must entail upon them. He writes for
Germans,and discusses his thesis from German
and not from an American point Of yow, ex-
hortlng his readers to apply the remedies hat
are needed to make themselves useful citizens,
The spirit Of his articles affords ample proof
that great numbers of very respected Germans
among us are keeny sensitive to the deterorated
quality of the emigration since 848. and 10 tho
influence it is likely to exert upon the dcs.inies
OF the country. Speaking of the German po-
h1ical societies lately organised in Texas and
the western states, he says:
Germans now find Germans ovprvwhere.
The great mass Of modern emigration makes it
powerful. Developments must proceed from
such masses; they can exert an influence upon
social and political relations which would have
been impossible while their number was snail.
What these masses are, what feelings and
intentions they bring to naturalization, and how
they leave their impression upon tie interests
of the country, through the ballot boz, may be
gathered from the following passage
Germans need self knowledge AMI tnodestr.
We are enthusiastic for liberty; yet have scarce
ly given any other proof of our devotion TO it,
than by demanding free license to get drunE
We gable about our political insighG. and de-
monstrate by wordy, abstract platforms. and
a good share OF shamelessness in our iuda-
ment.' In another place, the writer says;
Let us censure the eagerness Of those who
barely landed on our shores, began DIV the
world out Of its foundations; we blame their
agitatlons to disturb, yes even to anuhiiate the
freest and best existing form OF govenmtattn
order to substitute for it an ideal Of fancy. or
the product of some philosophic Or upphi!oso-
phic history" Again
We condemn some of our half-wittcd coun-
trymen, who, before they oyerstepped The bonn-
daries of New York city: before their knowl-
edge of the country extends beyond the view
Of the living torrents in the streets, and the at.
;ernate dreaming and bombast of Germans in
beer shops; before they know enough to read
jdpCi, Va W IoilNSiS Nlbll Ill ftIutIlG&H, DGglU
already to speak ptuously of the eQuntry,
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HE DEMOCRACY AND THE IR1sH-The True
Democrat, the only Pierce paper now left in the
ity of New York, is dreadfully savage every
lay upon foreigners in general, and The Irish
n particular. Itproclaims with exuItation that
roper measures 10 counteract IrisI Influences
re in full operation, and it adds:
Politicians may protest, demagogues mag
wear, partzans may contradict. and the pub
6 may start but the work sill goes brarelY on.
It the coming election twill be felt here. Eve
7 foreign name viii be scratched on every
eket. This is the legal remedy adopted hv
1ose who are disgasted with the toadyisn 10
foreign influence The lesson viii be Sc
ere and summary one. It will not soon ba
,rgosten. Il will make all these Hatulent bid
sfs III tgesforeign vote market sbiysr ii their
,nas