The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1855-08-17
From the New Yorker Stats Zeitnng. Ang, l
The Germans and the Herald.

The Ne1cS has undertaken the worthy TASK ~
explain 10 the AagIo american public new piece
Of perGdy on the pnr. Of the New York Her
aid. The somewhat peculiar position OF the
German Americans iE this country obliges us to
take notice OF things which, under other crcum-
stances, we should pass by with md ference, and
ward off the blow which the folly Of some indvI
duas amongst our conntrymen suggests against
the whole German American population.
The Platform Of the Free Germans, which the
Herald reveals now, is an exploded thing. which
fact cannot be unk nown ;.neitber to 1t the lierald)
nor to the Louisville Journal. The perhdy Of
this last paper is to try to induce Anglo Amcri-
cansto believe that those principles laid down in
that platform are those Of the nass of the German
population. We could well try to make our
-countrymea beIcve;-~ith much and as little
right that the principles OF Garrison and AntonI't-
te Brown are the expression of the opinions OF the
whole American people. Ihe Nc2rs points right
eously out the small number Of readers OF those
German papers which have made themselves The
organs Of those scctaries, and compares them with
the large number Of readers Of such papers as the
Stats Zeit1tps "pd others. It is lfct that The
StQats Ztituno alone has more readers han all
those papers which belong to tie so-cAIl'd radical
party pot together. 1t Is 10 be remnrkcd,
proof Of the sentiments Of the German population
that nearly all those papers which are rot demo-
cratic can scarcely get living, while Ihe dino
cratic and conservative organs rnj JOY large circle
Of readers. The most resoute and talented paper
of the abolitionst schoo! have generally the lrast
subscribers. The Pioneer, for example, has but
a few hundred paying subscribers lille the 16enI
Zeitung, iIh much labor and great exfrtion to
please its readers, has obtained but toerhbie cir
culntion in the German boarding houses, Th"
mass Of the German population belongs undoubt.
eddy TO the democratic party. Although some
fraction Of them hesitate sometimes in their opIn
ions, they soon come back to this, their old Fl g.
Even those VI no always on the stand when
politics quiet listen, when the election lime is
at hand to those whose experience enables them
10 direct their counrvmen. II is easy for the
German to understand the posi'lon Of things in
the South and North aud to tina, abolition s ~,
natvism, and the mania OF temperance pro-
coed from the same source; they know that they
have not to approach either ScyIla, or ChnrIybde
for fear OF being swallowed up by them, but that
they have TO fight the two infirmties OF our epoch.
The German loves liberty not only Tor himself
but for others {; but he is no, venur"us enough to
risk the liberty which he has acquired at great
srcrlhce, Tor doubtful iutur'. In fact what is
he aim Of those indi.idnas and papers boa lag
every day of their IiberaIiry? In their roilIess
endeayors there is nothing but d,adened arrow
against slavery, which cannot have any If CT for
slavery cannrt be abolished, even though all t,ln
Germans should act as single m"n against IT,
They do no! even know What might becnme Of
those they would make free in>fantaneouSly. All
their doing are. IN fact, mere y high sounding
words, which can, perhaps, seduce for moment
but cannot insure anything for the future.
All these are hqt opportunities for the Louis
vile .J0uFnuI and the New York Herald to calu.n.
Mate the Germans. These two papers both be-
long to The S: called National Know Mornings
Now that the Germans have recognized the free
soil Know Nothing<, and that the S9u'h, in gener-
al, is disposed to favor foreigners, it the task
OF the above named papers to d"nounce the Ger
mans as aboli'ionists TO the South, and 10 Indicate
the danger whioh should result from allowing the
right Of voting to the Germans. Bat hat is to be
thought of press which uses SUCH means Ia al
tain its Object.