Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-19
The Turn-Vereins.

We make the following extracts from the
address of r. c, Miner, delivered by him,
before the Turn Vereins of Marysyille, at the
Pavilion, on Wednesday evening last:
Turn-Vereins (Gymnastic Society," unlike
most other societies of the kind, have for
their objects not only the development and
strengthening of the body, but also the eul-
tivation of the heart and mind The consti.
tuition of the San Francisco Turn Vereins.
which hold in my hand, shows that the
aim of the society is to combine gymnastic
eXel cises with reading singing and social in.
tercourse, and that the members of the socie
ty consist of Turner and Turnfreunde, (gvm.
nastic and friends of gymnastic clubs,) the
latter being those members who do not en-
gage In the gymnastic exercises. (turn1bun-
ger) but yet belong to the society, in order
to JOIN in its social meetings and pleasures.
and to encourage dds Turn eceSen 1.-THE insti.
tuition of gymnastic clubs) throughout the
community. may here observe that the
regular German gymnastic clubs in the
United States, including those of California
have as complete an organization and gov
ernment as the societies of Free AIasons. Odd
Fellows, DC, the head quarters of the Turn-
Nereins being at Cincinnati When Turner's
travel, they are everywhere received and
treated as brothers by all other Turner's.
Some time prior to the glorious, although un
successful revolution Of 1913, which shook
the corrupted thrones of Germany to their
very centre, the leading men of the liberal
party infused new spirit into the Turn.
! Vereins of that country. Those men saw
that Germans were divided into many differ
ent States, having only one common origin
and one common language, as band of union
among them, while their crafty princes kept
them as seperate and distinct as possible,
remembering, as they did, the fable of the
bundle of sticks, and, there .. e, being well
convinced that if Germans were only once
united, their combined strength could easily
resist oppression, and hurl down the petty
tyrants from their seats and seeing this the
patriots adopted the Turn Vereins as means
Of uniting all Germans, from the Danube to
the Elbe-from the Baltic to the Rhine! in
one indissoluble band of brothers They
knew that to pass from the Night of Slavery
to the Golden Liberty we must wade through
the blood OF revolution, and that although
men of gigantic mind are necessary to con
SSlNS anu pau, anu 10 cOHuucU Lne carrying
out of political revolutions, vet that after
all, when the decisive blow has to be struck,
the barricades have to be raised, the arsenels
to be stormed, and close hand fighting to be
done, physical force and courage are the chief
things wanted to insure success The patri.
OTIS therefore became themselves members or
patrons of Turn-V ereins, and by their pres
ence and example encouraged young men to
meet together and develop their physical
powers, too oft debilitated by confinement
in work shops, stores and counting houses so
that by mingling in friendly intercourse at
the Turnlokal, by practcing in amicable
rivalry gymnastic exercises, by uniting their
voices in singing patriotic songs and by
listening together to the inspiring speeches Of
friends of the people, they might learn to
know and assert their rights, and warn and
fortify each other in love of Fatherland and
Liberty And that by visiting and receiving
visits from other Turn-V Vereins, those brother
ly and patriotic feelings might be diffused
throughout the length and breadth of the
land and from and by the Turn Vereins be
sent in genial streams among all classes of
society, except the hereditary foes of free
dom and progress, who as the patriots well
know, would ever remain deaf and insensi-
6le to the calls of truth and liberty.