Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-03-23
The German Delegates to Chicago.

EDITOR OF THE OHIo STATE JOURNAL:
1t night be of some interest to Won and
you readers, To know more about Messrs.
BroGbeck and Mueller, who, with so gencr-
Gus majority, were elected delegate and
alternate to the Chicago National Conven-
ton.
Both of them, so you are aware, are Ger
mans 10y birth, and l may add, Americans
by choice, and friends of liberty and equal
rights by principle.
MIR. Brodbeck was born in the Kingdom
of Wurtembcrg, about the year 1912. AT
the Universities of Heidelberg and Tubin-
gen, he studied medicine; and Of the lat.
ter institute he is graduate.
A most significant year, was that of ls-
l2. While the Germans fought for liberty
and union the young Republic of Columbia
had just issued its second edition Of the
Declaration of Independence. The effect,
however, was different one, being in power
again, tho European mouarchs oppressed
their poor subjects more than before, and
the gloomy hope of the latter to be happy
under free institutions, was mere dream
: a castle built in the air.
Our Anglo Saxon brethren on this side
of the Atlantic had success. The insignifi
cant baby of the Colonies has grown since
hearty giantlike man, and the Union to-
day (and if love of liberty and moral edu-
cation are truly cultivated, hope for al
tlme) is the happy home of the oppressed
from all countries.
DR.. Brodbeck's early youth necessarily
must have been affected by these most i'm
: portant political transactions. Unhesita
tlngly he became freeman, and in l834-i
he joined the patriots of the "Ham6acl
SchtoSs," when the revolutionary elemen
undertook to make Germany free. Unfor
tunately it was failure. With many dis
appointed friends the Doctor bade farewell
to the beloved fatherland. In 1887 hC
arrived on the hospitable shores of the new
world; for five years he practced his pro
fession in Philadelphia, and during the las
eighteen years he has been a resident anC
voter of Dayton, in our Buckeye State
: AS man he is highly respected by his fel
L low citizens, and as politician he only ap
I pears on the battle ground when the gooC
/ cause of the people is endangered.
, Mr.. Mueller, his alternate, is not les
popular with the good people of Ohio
He was born in the Rhine Pfalz, and r,
, , ceived good education.
n In le4s-'49, the then young law-studer
~ was one of the first who joined the liberi
10 party for Germany's independence. Whe
., their noble efforts failed, he left for tn
N country, and settled at Cleveland, in the C
or pacity of lawyer, of which place he
n still a resident, and highly esteemed. !
10 the time, when only few Germans oppose
IL that more and more coTuptgrowing Dem
g cratic party, he and his friends occupied 6
Is exemplary independent position, the resu
,e of which is a strong Republican majority
nj Cuyahoga county.
d, In 1854, when the Republican par
~ was born, at Pittsburgh, Mr.. Mueller re
Is resented the then small society OF Il
D. Cleveland Freemen, and in 1856 his pat
Or oic voice could be heard on many q pc
cs ple's-trihune for Fremont and tho PhladC
70 phia Platform.
st Such are the German Delegates, wi
IS. certainly will do honor to themselves al
n the people of Ohio at the approaching Cl
- cago Convention.
&C. We cannot too highly appreciate {
good will Of the Republican party, viii
"a az with so generous majority elected Mess
ne Brodbeck and Mueller delegates to the n
OK tional Convention while the Democrats
en- the second district refused TO elect
ST. Schiff H. RUESS.
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