The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-10-19
Honor to Whom Honor is Due.

. IcsuLIeu SO BlCIlOuSiy " bLo A1SPuOAASoH
arms, no division of the grand army has
been more steadfast and effective than the
Germans. Thoroughly disciplined by their
native metaphysical habits of thought and
industrious mode of life, and having on ma
ture consideration made up their minds
fully that the doctrines of Republicanism
were right, they have gone right ahead in
the fulfllment of their duty to themselves
and to their adopted country They have
experienced the effects of prescription and
tyranny in the Old World, and when they
became convinced that Democracy was but
another name for these sore evils, and that
its sole purpose and aim was to spread
slavery over the whole continent and perpet-
uate it through all time, they made up their
minds to leave the ranks of that destruc-
tive party and join the true party of liberty
and progress.
Many of them suffered and fought FOR lib
this country were captivated with the
name democracy" But they ultimately
found that the acts of the party constantly
gave the lie to its professions, and when
they once became satisfied of this, they
promptly discarded the party of their first
choice and joined one they believed to be
true 10 the interests of humanity.
The German mind is not liable to sudden
change. Hence our German Republican
friends hung on to the Democratic party as
long as there was n hope for it to prove it.
self true to that freedom they worshiped.-
But when that hope proved delusive, then
they became Republicans, and not till then.
Once satisfied that Democracy is wrong and
Republicanism is right, and they will cling
to our organization until it shall prove false
to the principles which they left their ma
live country to enjoy. The great mass of
the Germans are Of us and with us, and it
will be the fault Of the Republican party if
they do not continue its most valuable mem
bers and defenders.
There IS another nationality of men to |
whom large part of the credit of the re- |
cent victories is due we mean our English, |
Scotch, and Welsh brethren. Born under q |
benign government having enjoyed
greater degree Of real freedom in their ma
tive land than any other people on the
globe, our own excepted, they do not intend |
that with their aid or consent they shall
enjoy less in this, their new home. The
traditionary rights which we enjoy to-
gether with them by the common law,
under Magma Charta, they are determined
to preserve invioiate, aud rather to increase
than to diminish them. The tendencies of
modern so-called Democracy they clearly
see are to infringe upon and destroy those
rights hence they are opposed to that party
with all the sturdy strength of their ma
lures
We must not forget another class of men
who have aided materially, according to
their numbers, in gaining the late victories
the French. Although not numerous
here, in Knox county they are, and Repub-
licanism has no truer friends in this District
than the descendants of the first French
settlers of the Old Post. The love OF liber-
ty that brought these to the then wilderness
of Indiana, is perpetuated in the breasts of
their lineal successors.
Let native-born Americans yield the full
need of honor to these and all other auxili-
aries acting with them to put down the
vilest despetism of the age -pro-Slavery
Democracy.