New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-23


".ayeler who sat by the well Of Freedom askipo
| draugbt one who himself could furnish living
water But 50 have We in this war found the
German When the she'll fired into Sumter fasbsa
| up TO Cincinnati, our people spontaneously assem-,
oled. Among the speakers whom the peon,,
called out was Judge Stallo, known among literars
men by bis admirable philosophical work, Naty,.
Phtosophie, and perhaps the leading German
tninker IN this country, who, in that terse En-.
glIsh OF which be i' mater, declared in his final
sentence: IL promise and pledge You that tbe
ielow-men you have received from Germany
though the last 30 enjoy the institutions of tbs
| nation, will be the first TO rush to their defenss
and the Iast to yield them to the usurper." Tho
| promise he then made for them, the Germans
| have literally kept.
The Germans Of the West-of Cincinnati. Mil.
waukee, Chicago ST. Lonis, and other centers---
have no. only furnished fne regiments aud off,
GERS but some remarkable elements which have
been insGfiiciebtly regarded. II must be remem.
bered that the Germans arc not migratory
people, Passonately attached TO their Father.
land aud their own national habits and tastes,
they rarely leave their country for aught bat
Freedoms sake. Their leading educated men,
ard they are not few, are generally those who,
in tleir own country, have moved. as their poea
saJs "in the Ife.aoods in the deed Storm
L. Lebcnsaatben, Tn Tha,cu,turm
Wall eh All uEd 40,
Wehe lin und her
SO they move with the current, Of Nature-the
mos, lftruihful people on the face of the earth
Their fnult as people in our midst is tbe1
extreme flowuess at fusing theit leayen into the
native American masses. Much Of even thai
| transient show of strength which that political
mu.hroom known as knO@-Notbingi gained,
| was due TO the barriers of language aud customs,
which our Germans have done so little to pull
down. They have not seen that the meaning OF
! America is that it takes all men 10 make Man.
and that, into the race worthy to occupy Tho
! New World, each segmenary race must distD
special strength, mrreniering its own separate
| condition. Not seeing this, they have their OWL
separate churches, theaiers, lectures, clabs, &c'
| La this City Of Cincinnati, We have, at The ieass
| estimate, GO, coo Germans. But few OF these are
fresh immigrants; and yet half of the people one
mig6t meet in their division of the city could moi
tell distinctly in English the simplest street direc'
ton. Their residences are packed together across
tho canal-calleJ, consequently Over-ths
| Rhino"--where one may walk all day, ind sea
10 English sigu, nor hear more English word'
thao he would in Hamburs--a city which ~
| trade and buildings suggest.
But AMID these sOcial dykes and dams wtsi
noble hearts and heads What histories and eI.
periences lie about the city awaiting their trans.
lator ard poet Having occasion once TO entef
the modest parlOr Of o German family, wn
! struck with the appearance of Catholic shriDs
in Ons end Of the room. Surprised at this (foi
| knew that the family were Of railroads.&c. sym
pathies) l approached and found that the centra
| figure of the shrine was not the Madonna, bui
| the portrait Of strong, spiritual, German, VILE
a magnificent eye. IL was Ropp, the Germss
Theodore Parker; and SOON learned that tbs
lady Of the house bad been an earnest followe,
OF bis, was twics Imprisoned with hin (when biz
whole congregation we're impissued); bad re-
maiued when bis congregation had TO copy sne
read those eloquent dlscOurses which Ropp was
forbidden TO preach; and when this was forbid
den, had left for America, where about his ne
mory she had built this shrine. Il was pieci
Of hero-worshp that would have been 10 Carlyle
a ray from the Golden Age. | assure you such
Orleals have not been rare to those who have
come here; and those who have come through
them have learned the value Of liberty, and know
by sad experience that the tyraunles and sorrowa
Of ths Palatinate are not mytbic, and that they
may be repeated in America whenever, by cons
promise or defeat, this nation bows or bends To
the scepter of Slavery.
And this city does but tel the story of othe1
cities in regard TO the Germans. "Thsse ara
they who have come up through much tribuls-
tion." They remembered what Goethe said to o
youth who spoke of emigrati0g to American
Z" Your America is here or nowhere" And mos3
brayey did they ,eek TO realize the Americaf
dream--the vision Of Lberry--in their ows
Fatherland. We all remember those heroic
efforts of as; we oil remember the young meA
who bit the dust, or persisted on the scaffolds
we traced little way others who wet away 70
eat their crust in sorrow in foreign lands. The,
did not find their America there; and we know
too well the baeiul Sirius that has ruled oyeS
our politics since since that period to cay tha9
they found the land they sought here. But they
found lis possibility here. Deceived for q while
by that false name Democracy, which recalls the
Frenchman's saying that "a lie agreed on ia 40
good rs the truth" they were gradually undes
ceived through tho noble efforts of such men &C
Carl Scburz, Stalo, Haaaurek, Hecker, Which,
aud It ers, until in tie last campaign the Ger"
mans Of the West were found in unbroaen pha~
lanx for Freedom. They arc now ready to