The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-01-10
THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON, D. c. JANUARY TO- 1856


Your representatives in either House OF Con
gress must speak with bated breath and hum
Bile countenance in presence of the representa-
tives of the privileged class, lest justice be de-
MED to your old soldiers when they claim their
pensions, or to your laborers when they claim
the performance of their contracts with the
Government The President of the United
States is reduced to the position of deputy Of
the privileged class, emptying the treasury, and
marshalling battalons and ships of war to dra
COON you into the execution of the Fugitive
Slave Law"-Hon. Wm. II. Se,card's Speech
at Albany, N. y, on the l2h October, 1855.
FRAGMENTS
Translated from the German weekly Tbrn-ZtuIis, or
gan of the German Turner'S Confederacy (1hrrtr-
Bond of North America, published, since ISL at Phil
adelpha and since the 9th of November 1855, al Gin
cinRaii, edited by Messrs. w. RapP and q. Becker
HEINZEN on TURNERY.
The Turner'S Confederacy has special or
gan, Die Turn-Zeitung, which shall be written
in the sense of Radical Progress Now, what
is meant by writing 4" in the sense OF Radical
Progress?" What is meant by this, particular
y with reference to American politics, In which
the Turn-Zeitung shall not take part? A
German radical paper in America has double
task: first, to defend and to propagate the ac-
quired truths in the dominion of radical thought
and investigation; then, to support in the
American practice such endeavors which, al
though not reaching yet the radical truth, run,
nevertheless, in the direction of the same; fur
Their, to struggle against exortions which are
intended to cross or to close that direction.
The Turner's have recommended to the edit
ors of their organ the defence of radical pro-
gress, but directed them not to take part in
American politics. At any rate, however, if
the Turner's did not know, yet, what party
they should support, they had no need deliber-
ating much, against which they should strug-
gle. They could or must, therefore, bind and
engage the editors Of their organ, at any rate,
to struggle against every party that served re
action, and especially Slavery, or which did
not oppose Slavery. The struggle against tie
siaoehoLding Democracy must be one Of the
principal tasks Of the Tmn-Zettang, and the
first article IN the programme Of the Turner's
CORtcderacy
We will admit that such position, at least
q negatively decided one was hitherto avoided,
for the purpose OF pIttirg 10 difficulty to the
organization and extension of the Turner's Con
federscy. But now, since that organization has
succeeded, after the Confederacy has acquired
the strength of Sic thousand members, such
consideration can be no more restrictive. Now
Is the time at length to show, before the word,
that these 5000 Turner'S do no longer content
themselves with the honor OF jumping, beer
drinking. and arranging professions, &C.
Turn Zsitung, PHI, Sept. -, 1855.
From w Rapps speech AT the General Festival of the
Turner's, held at Cincinnati, III September, 1850
To the United States belongs the high glory
of having, at least partly, realized before all
IL a.. IL. l. e
which were at first proclaimed by the revoiu-
tionary philosopher of Geneva but, alas they
have not progressed On the path which they
have gone estray upon the crooked by-ways OF
transaction and corruption; and it is now the
question above all to fix again the sublime aim
which Jefferson has presented to them: Equal
Iii kts of all Hen, inalienable Rights of all
Men, to Life, Liberty, and Happiness. That
the North American turner's Confederacy
ought not to fail IN the great struggle between
Right and Wrong, that they must form the
youthful Guard of Liberty among the German
Americans needs no argument.
Up on, There is no tine 10: dresID;ng
Advance with hardy siepst
For Right aid Wrong Struggling
And every one must light
An open susceptibility of all that is good and
beautiful, hardy energy for selfdefence and
that OF others against every violence, and above
all faithful end devoted attachment to the
high principles OF the ieyo.ytion, MeY will help
us over the bitterness and confusons OF these
times, to the victory of Right and Liberty.
- Victory is certain, if we only resolve at last
that we pW conquer Ihrn-Zeitung, Phil
adetphiG, September 20, 1855.
TIE APPROXIMATION or THE IT RNEk:>' CON
FEDERACE.
The Convention, held last week at Buffalo,
has given plain answer to all acquisitions.
The instructions which most Of the delegates
had received from their respective associations,
their condgot with reference to pol
itics, are praiseworthy evidences for the sound
and honorable sentiments ofthe Turner's, against
which all endeavors of the Reactionists, to en-
tee them into the unclean camps of the latter,
must utterly fail. The great agency which
has put the political sp1ing-wheels of the Union
in an entirely new motion-the Slaue,y ,teS-
'ion-has also played the principal part in the
political debates of the Turner's The following
programme is the free and almost unanimous
Of the Turner's Confederacy:
The Turner'S ConioderaCy has the object 10
form, in its members, men of vigorous bodies,
and sensible, unprel udiced minds; and therefore
It's task is, TO bring the social, political, and
religious reforms, IA The sense Of radical prog
'ess, to the correct understanding of its mem
GERS; through all the means at its command,
N order to enaDie them thereby, rs well as By
heir organization and their practical exercises,
70 participate in these reforms, individually or
~ the Confederacy, and to defend their rights
md principles.
TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.