The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-23


came down thirty per eushcl potatoes 10 10 eenh
The price Of land Cell suddenly from $500 TO $40 per aee
Those who bad bought land in 1877 and paid one-hFd
down unable the inssalments falling due Il
1918 and 1919 CONSERVATION and panic spread through
Germany whoever could sell out en the country
Great masses went 70 Southern Russia Canada the B.
ais, and the United States
Tho Years lSaO-al and especially lsga were years !,
great abundance aud those who bad successfully weather
Cd the storm 81 disaster OF the preceding years began
revive The emigration sackened.
Germany had gained great political advantage Wa,
Germany had received above stated, constitution,
struggle began between the soveroigus and the pcopk
tame indeed vet struggle sl In the year 1850
became apparent that progress bad been made ID
the political education Of the but these weak sas
nipped ia the bud The Dets Frankfort took carr
that the popular chambers should hcnceorth do nothr
else than ssActioa nsc ta1es Here and there voice spo
in clear accents, but sieneed in dungeon
The July cvoutioa IN France spread, however not oa
Poland bat sgtaied also the middle classes OF crmany
The party Of the so-caed liberals was however soon sub
dued and rigorous Investigation commenced agalua
all who implicated in this movement IN 1881 Ger
emigration entered into phase, larger
scale in consequence OF political prescription Large nun
bers Greece Agicrs Australia, Good Hope Brazil
Southern Russia Canada but principally to the United
States II that time that OF the brightest in
iellects fled Paris and from there ehasse with pQuaa
htica system These writer's became famous as Young
Germany The clergy and the higher classes had msas
with the princes The people seeing this
detection OF their spiritual leaders became distrusttal
the doctrines they preached and nfdey began 10 spread
among the middle classes to an alarming degree TIE
German writers in Parisloung Germany-put this
good account as will soon be fully shown,
In 1885 a new for emigration in Prussia
The Lutheran Church is there established and guaranteed
BY law. The royal family however belongs to the Re
formed (Calvnisc) denomination, King Frederick VII
liam united the Lutheran and Reformed Churches by
royal edet calling this creature The United Church
The clergy with few exceptions, acqnesoed The
OF the people indifferent to religion whose teachers
they league with their opprssors dad show an
symptoms Of dissatisfaction this hgh-handcd
OF their sovereign In silesi however, there commences
soon determined opposition, headed by professors Of h
University OF Breslau The King suspended the professors
and imprisoned the elcrgymcn and church-membcrs who
opposed the union Of the two churches. Soldiers
sent the disconnected villages 10 overawe all oppo
ton The consequence was that whole Villages emigralc
10 the United States These Old Luthcrans, they ar
called arc now organized into tao synods-of Missouri
and OF Buffalo The former has above 100 ccrgymen who
preside over than 300 congregations.
The expensive court establishments, the immense stand
ng armies impoverished the nation and increased taxa
ton to an enormous extent The people became unqu
discontented desperate Some Of the members Of the OPP
position the houses RcKhn I'd sNhh, 10
strate The press hitherto under the strcest censorship
assumed at once formidable aspect The people made
by private subscription the penalties imposed upon the ed
ors The representatives began TO agitate the repeal
all laws against the liberty OF the press The conservative
(par,y Of the princess party resisted this innovation but
was finally oyerawed and compelled to yield and
there appeared all at once about 1914 new order Of
on the political stage Of Germany writers who did not
write in the argon of the philosophical schools Of Kant
the elegant
style of Young Germany but who addressed the
es, who spoke to them in plain homey language News
papers for the people cheap erse in style yet plain wia
and practical, sprang up like mushrooms. The excitement
became intense practical results seemed at hand
Alas Missionaries destroyed all but hope II
Germans hunt for theories Men who had lived hitherto
in retirement and seclnsion dreaming Of Plates republic
medatng like philosophie owls, Ronsscans eoss
entered upon the political stage disciples of Proudhon
Fourier lie Blanc but unlike these, they did not counsel
to improve the social system, bat to destroy it. They
translated the religious and political works OF Tom Paine
the speeches Of Mirssau, Marat Danton ST. Just and Ro
bespierre and scattered them in immense numbers among
the rural population and the aborcrs and mechanics thu
cities. The governments became alarmed, and Obliged
these ators leave the country They fled 10 Switer
land France and England which became the seats Of h
new political propaganda, better known under the name
red republicans Their emssaries formed secre. political
societies throughout Germany, Switzerland, and among
the Germans in the United States
The German governments demonstrated with the federal
of Switzerland and demanded the expulsion
Of these refugees 1t was peremptory denied The Ger
tried next counterfeit these influences
by appealing to the religious sentiment of the people
they had successfully done in 1919. In the Protestant
States the attempt received with ridicule and
The Jesuts successful You remember the holy
Of Treye and other similar mummeries which figured
50 conspicuouSy in the OF la4T In Switzerland
open hostlities between the Catholic canton
(Sonderbundt and the Protestant canons federal party
the latter Of which highly tinctured with red rpu
Iicanism. u
In Munich the capital Of Bavaria which had been hh-
Monez joined the liberals against the Jesus and, holding
sway the amorous old King for time veto
rious; but in January lsas expelled from the king
dom by the rabbIe, nstigaied and led by innriaod e"
uts. i
Every day il became evident that MATES aP
preached crisis The nobility the bonrgeoisien fact
all who had something to lose became alarmed AT the rapid
progress Of red repubcanism At the close Of 1871 Loud
Philippe said to be in decline and il was re
ported all Germany that the last breath Of the French
King would be the signal Of general rising among VI
nations OF western Europe Louis Philippe however ava
not die but blow struck in February 1913, whid
deprived him Of his throne few weeks after Germany
Hungary and Italy in open revolt
Now, regards the immigration from Germany dnrng
this second period from 1850 ls4s II Is TO be obsesd
that Il embraced not only small farmers and mechanics
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