Washington telegraph., 1856-08-20
From the American Org1n.
From a German to the Germans.

From German to the Germans.
| Frederick Hecker, a German, who is
one of the Fremont and Dayton electors
at large for the State of Illinois, was in
vited to address the Republican" mass
meeting at Belleville, on the 18th instant,
but was prevented by an attack of erysip-
elias. The following letter from him, how
ever, was read to the meetRg:
To tie Committee Of the anti-NeJrasta
Ratification Meeting at BeIteoittc.
GENTLEMEN-I pray you to read the
annexed words of mine to the meeting /:
Were the state of my health such as to
render me transportable, l would be con
veyed to Belleville; the more especially
since gang of desperate Nebraskaites
Will endeavor to explain my absence to
their advantage, in a manner peculiar to
themselves.
therefore inform all such persons that,
so soon as | am able to move about
though my health may not be fully restor-
ed will speak to the people of St. Clair
and of the adjoining counties on the ques-
ton of the day, and shall demonstrate, to
the best of my abilities, that the honor of
the German name and of the German ma
ton, and the hatred of aristocratic AFRO
gance and tyranny, make it the sacred and
ter the lists against slavery and the slave
ocracy- Nothing but the most sophistica-
ted and forced misinterpretation OF the
freest constitution of the freest country.
can establish the doctrine of oppression
and wrong-the doctrine that slavery is
the rule, and freedom the exception; and
only those are faithful to the word and
spirit both of the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence and of the constitution who oppose
the extension of slavery, and thus preserve
this constitution inviolate, as a gospel Of
liberty to the oppressed and enslaved ma
tions of the earth.
1 pray you 10 consider me as sharing
the opinion of those who endorse the Phil
adelpIia platform and candidates, and no
less heartily supporting the resolutions
and ticket OF the Bloomington convention.
Respectfully,
- FR. HECKER.
Here we have in black and white, from
the New York Evening Post, long an or
gan OF the Democratic party, that Mr.
frederick Hecker, prominent German
OF Illinois, considers it the duty of every
German to enter the lists against the na-
hce-Jorn Americ0ns Of the South.
Hecker, wAo may have been in this
country long enough to entitle him to a
vote-though even this is doubtful-arrJ-
gdntiy assumes to himself the prerogative
Of Judge Of the Supreme Court of the
United States, and decides as it were e,C
cdtaedrG, and in the most authoritative
manner, a question which has engrossed
the attention Of the greatest minds which
have shed lustre on the annals Of this
Union That question, upon which the
wiscst sages of the United States have ar
rived at opposite decisions, this Mr. Heck
er, foreigner, finds no difficulty whatever
in deciding instanter. He places the con-
stitution in his Atheistical aiembic, and
presto, it becomes thorough-going Red
or Black Republican, revolutionary mani
festo. Apparently unconscious OF the in
delicacy of his position, he impudently
assumes to decide for the American peo-
pie question which they have never de-
cIded satisfactorily for themselves
This German Atheist is Fremont elect
or for the State OF Illinois, State which
is crowded with ignorant foreigners from
every country in Europe, and who will
doubtless be inaamed by his artful har-
angues, as only the ignorant can be by the
arts of the demagogue. 1t is with such
men as the renegade Wilson, of Massachu-
sets, and his besotted followers in that
State Johnston, of Pennsylvania, Ford
of Ohio, Law OF New YoIk, and other
apostates from the American party, have
united to break down that party, for hav-
ing had patriotism enough to nominate
Millard Fillmore for the Presidency.
With such facts before them, we have
full confidence that the conservative men
of the South, and of the North also, will
unite as one man, before the fourth of
November, and teach these infamous for
eign radicals, and their still more infamous
native abettors, that all their demagogue-
ism will avail them nothing-that Amer
cans are determined to rule America, and
that they need no instruction from the
disciples of German infdelity and the
school of Anacharsis Clootz.