Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-24
From a German TO the Germans.

u "CAHuh " VAC VCA"umss
Frederick Hecker, the German, who is one Of
the Fremont and Dayton electors at large for the
State of Illinois, was invited to address the " Re-
publican" mass meeting at Belleye, on the 18th
instant, but was prevented by an attack of erysip-
elias. The following letter from him, however, was
read to the meeting:
TO the Committee of the Anti- Nebraska Ratif-
cation Meeting at BslieuiHe:
"GESrLExEk pray you to read the annexed
words Of niue to the meeting:
"Were the state of my health such as to render
me transportable, would be conveyed to Belle
vile; the more especially since gang Of desper-
ate Nebraskaites will endeavor to explain my alb
sence to their advantage, in a manner peculiar to
Themselves
II therefore inform all such persons that so
soon as | am able to move about-though my
health may not be fully restored-I shall speak to
the people of st. Clair and of the adjoining
ties on the question Of the day. and shall demon
strate to the best Of my abilities, that the honor
of the German name and Of the German nation,
and the hatred Of arstocratc arrogance and tyran-
n.y. make it the sacred and imperative duty of every
German to enter the lists against slavery and the
slaveocracy. Nothing but the most sophisticated
and forced misnterpretaton of the freest constitu
ton of the frecst country establish the doc
trine of oppression and wrong-the doctrine that
slavery is the rule aud freedom the exception and
only those faithful to the word and spirit both
Of the Declaration Of Independence and Of the
constitution who oppose the extension OF slavery,
and thus preserve this constitution nviolate, as
gospel Of liberty to the oppressed and enslaved
nations of the earth.
CT pray you to consider me as sharing the opn-
ion Of those who endorse the Philadelphia platform
and candidates and no less heartily supporting the
resolutions and ticket of the Bloomington Conyen-
| ton. Respectfully,
"FR. HxCKsR."
Here we have it In black and white, from the
New York Evening Post, long an organ Of the
Democratic party, that Mr.. Frederick Hecker, a
prominent German Of Illinois, considers II the duty
of every German to enter the lists against the
| tipe.6orr americans of the South.
Hecker, who may have been in this country long
enough to entitle him TO avote-though even this
is doubtful-arrogantly assumes to himself the pre-
rogstive of Judge of the Supreme Court of the
United States, and decides a. it were eathedra,
and in the most authoritative manner, question
which has engrossed the attention Of the greatest
minds which have shed lustrs on the annals of this
Union. That question, upon which the wiscst sages
of the United States have arrived at opposite deci-
sions, this Mr.. Hecker, foreigner, finds no diff
Guilty whatever in deciding itstanter He places the
Constitution in his Atheistical aembic, and presto,
i becomes thorough-going Red or Black Repub-
lican, revolutionary manifesto. Apparently uncon-
scious Of the indelicacy of his position, he impu-
IDENTIFY assumes to decide for the American people
a question which they have never decided satisfso-
torily for themselves.
This German Atheist Is Fremont elector for
the State of Illinois, State which is crowded
With ignorant foreigners from every country in Eu.
rope, and who win doubtless be infamed by his
artful harangues, as only the ignorant can DO by
the arts of the demsgogue 1t is with such men
that the renegade Wilson Of Massachusetts,, and
his bssotted followers In that State; Johnston Of
Pennsylvania, Ford Of Ohio, Law Of New York,
and other spostates from the American party, have
united TO break down that party, for having had
patriotism enough TO nominate Nilsrd Fillmore Scs
the Presidency.
With such facts before them, we have full conf.
dence that the conservative men OF the South, and
Of the North slso viii unite one man. before the
4th of Noysmbcr, and teach those Infamous foreign