The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-24

fall the entire past must be destroyed 10 prepare the way
for the triumphant advent Of human morathe basis Of
the future AS long the phantom Crisiani Is abroad
liberty cannot get foothold Atheism is the beginning
Of genuine liberty. Man 10 the savage state
in order to truly civilized hs burst asunder
the cage in which be is exhibited miracle OF alneness
The people Of Germany must learn 10 their fists Vol
aire and Ddero not height advance with
gigantic strides on the atheism and the destruction
Of false morality We must not only destroy the faith Of
onr foreathers but their and customs Hence
Il Is the duty Of the clubs propagate democracy with all
its consequences The day viii arrive when great bonres
shall be kinded fed with ban-notes drafts tarists wills
contracts and due-bls Our socis customs are the pill
lars OF tyranny In order reform them destroy
heml We must only attack State and Church, but
we must destroy all ideas about State church and socie
tyl The minds must be filed with hatred against the
present system prepare them accept the revolution
We are not able conquer the world BY the sword
must morally kill and bury i'll Down with the aristo-
Gratis Down with the pietists Down with all who EN-
ploy seryantsp
The organ OF the labor associations called aThs
Brothery Union discoursed thus in of its numbers
he ministers Of the Church unite with those Of the State
they have the interest in suppressng the free
dignity of They desire rob the people of their
worldly goods and give them drafts payable heaven
With satanic cunning they keep them in the Of
pentance prescribed by the church. whilst they permit
them bodily to On this has the clergy all
times made with the minorty-the princes
nobility against the people and their deliverance from
misery and oppression"
Att public meeting OF the orators made OF the
following language "Feuerbaeh has taught
template and place the spiritual god, whom
to think separate and divided from us, within Thus
the material god nianmon shall also be- il opposition
US, but in and within An eternal characterization
BEYOND this we hope not for long matters do not
improve life Egosm and ardrc have invented heaven
where the lot of the poor would be aeviated flour min
listers say Abops it shall be rewarded or God whepet
us answer, We will not wait-will not rely that
Another said Religion is indifferent of nnical to
truth because she subservient the desires Of the
soul Genuine doubt returns faith but proceeds
to action What criticism has destroyed you viii find
again in the world which is object worthy Of our love
| This is the love of the democracy
But avalanche increases in its fall and still in
creases so in the falling away from God
graduation The climax capped by Max Stuner in his
booh--"The Only One aid his Properly Ho denounces
Feuerbach who had proposed redeem Germany from the
phantom of religion fanatic priest who still breaches
love This religion also give way TO ego
| tismr
The effects of all this upon the Of the people u-
ring the progress of the revolution wonderful The
notorious Viewers Song sung by of Thousands
in taverns the highways and in the hedges The song
represents the German weaving the winding
sheet of Old Germany Three curses are piled in the
first he King of the Rich Y the Others fol-
| lows:
! Cursed be God who is blind and deaf,
! To whom we have in vain prayed with faith,
| In whom in vain we have trusted;
| He has cheated us he has fooled US;
| We weave! We weavel
| Cursed be our dastardy Fatherland
Where we have no heritage except misery and dis
i Old Germany We weave thy winding sheet;
| We into it the threcfold curse
We weavel WeweaveP
God and Fatherand, the two hottest ideas were thus
drawn into the mire. Yes in order effect the annha
of these ideas in the breasts and conscences of the
people the more eIectually Poetry the child OF Heaven
put into requisition the mouth-pece of the
terrible basphemy Titus Ulrich sang thus in his sono
| Songs;
g am too proud
| To be comorted by Thee
| By Thee, whom they call with trembling,
| The Lord-the Almighty One r
How true is what another poet sang with dismay and
horror, when he read the above verse:
What even during season Of naddened phrensy
Never fell from the lips of the lowest rabbe,
/ A German poet has uttered,
| German poet has sung r.
One the organs Of the aborng classes made the fol-
lowing parody of Genesis In the beginning the
Property and it created heaven and earth sheep calves
rams and man. and said him. Thou shalt be
unto me- for am the Property In the Of thy brow
thou shalt thy bread cunning fox has written this
1
| Godn
The communist Born held the following language:
Shame upon those who tell you that there be rich
and poor for such the pleasure Of God Each beating
of your pulse tells you is hsf Enjoyment and again
enjoyment is the motivepower which anmaies your very
hearts blood and mpes you to bestir yourselves and
act The interests of the possessors are an
agonistic those Of the poor The leading idea of
present society is selshness and its motto severy one
for hmseeach against all W. desire not an equal di-
vision ofpropery No few years would the misery
We desire the organization of labor the humiliation
all private property All barriers which obstruet general
rights and the enjoyment of the blessings of life and of free
labor fall The protecting mask of sancy must be
torn away from oil old ideas manners, and customs
Loewe in his periodical entitled What is still wanting
unto me- demanded:
al Abolition of all paternal authority and of marriage.
a. Full emancipation of every person after he she
shall have attained the twentieth year
80 That every so-caled marriage shall be dissolved
the demand of Of the parties that matrmony may
be union of which freeman needs any longer be
ashamed
! a. For every 5000 souls asylum shall be erected
where parents deliver their infants to be raised at pub
\ lie expense
! have fully-at least, more extensively than in
endeddescrbed the social condition and the anarchical
ideas which prevailed among considerable portion Of the
German nation during the revolutionary years Of 1890
so and 81 You may find in little volume published by
Senator Cass entitled France that the same sentiments