The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-05
Weakness and Cowardice and I'm.
gratitude OF tho Lincoln Aluminium.
THE GERMAN PRESS.


We have already referred to the position
assumed by the Minnesota Stats Zeaung,
in denunciation of the LINCOLN administra.
ton. Mr.. WOLFE, its editor, in card to the
Press of thursday, asserts that the article
in question indicates the views of nines
tenths of the German presses in the coun-
try. This we believe to be true state
ment.
The st. Louis Anzeiger, the leading Re-
publican sheet in the west, is muttering
ugly growls at the course of the Admins.
tration towards German applicants for Of
flee. 1t says:
Now, it so happened that there were three
German candidates for foreign missions {:
Schurz tor Turin, Koerner for Berlin, and Has.
saurek for Berne Nevertheless Mr..
Kerner had to give way to personal friend
of the President, and Mr.. Schurz appears to be
as good as vctimized. and now the only ques-
ton remaining is, "What will be the fate of
Mr.. Hassaurek2'
But it is not alone in st. Louis, the Ger
mans are getting their dander up, about the
way LINCOLN and SEWARD are treating
German applicants for Office.
The Indiana Post, a German Republican
paper published at Lafayette, is very bitter
on the Administration. 1t treats the course
OF Mr.. LINCOLN toward the Seceders, and
bis abandonment of Fort Sumpter, with the
greatest contempt, and declares that the
people who applaud the inaugural can on.
ly consider this desertion of its proposed
principles as downright weakness and cow
ardice." Of the conduct of the Admins
tration towards the German applicants for
Office, the Post has the following significant
remarks:
The people who applaud his inaugural can
only consider this desertion of its professed
principles as downright weakness and coward.
ice.
But recent developments have brought an.
other fact to light, and that is, that Mr. Lincoln,
| or at least the men who control him, are actu-
ated by feelings of decided hostility toward the
adopted citizens. Mr.. Seward is said to have
enunciated the delectabe doctrine that no
adopted citizens should be appointed heads of
foreign missions, thus rendering the act of nat
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coin, while protesting all willingness to serve
the few Germans who desired appointments at
his hands, expresses his regret at being unable
to interfere with Mr.. Stewards arrangements
in the Department of State.
The question arises at once: Who is Presi.
dent? Mr.. Lincoln or Mr.. Seward? Could not
Lincoln appoint Judd, an utterly unfit man, at
once to the Berlin mission2 And Schurz, who
had his personal pledges, and, relying on his
good faith, applied for the Sandman mission,
had to succumb to third.rate man. because
Seward opposed him, probably in return for
the devoted services that he rendered Mr.. Sew
ard at the Chicago Convention! All foreign
born citizens, especially those who have voted
for Lincoln. must feel deeply mortified and hu-
inflated at the ingratitude which the President
displays toward SO eminent a representative of
their nationality as Carl Schurz, and meet Lin
coins ingratitude and Stewards Know.Nothing
meanness in becoming manner. How this is
to be done future developments must indicate !;
let us, for the present, only give warning in
time.