, 1863-04-27

To the Editors Of the Tribune:
You publish In your issuo OF Sunday an article
Thanks" !" and which purports 10 be commurica.
tion from German Democrat In reference to the
coursc Of the tSaat< Zestung anlits course toward
tho late city election. Everybody would see that
the article III the 7ines card oi thanks, but
poorly dissuirct attack upon tho iStaais ZeitHaq
aud its editor, 5or the purpose Of breaking down
German u well IS ti.e American portioa Of thc hc
Republican party. NeveEtheless, the TRIBUNE not
only publielles ihc said article but adds to tie
Of the sfdat< Zti!n"g toward The Union ticket as
In, Ing octasioned Indignation among American as
well ~ German Republicans, and calls it treaeh.
cumstancc TINT the TRIBUNE itself Rays. fhs
motive that actu.tcd the Zeitung editor to behave
so slng5'iar1y IL X was not understood should have
before preferred such grare charges againsta pa
per aud an editor who has batt1ed for good while
W win and for tho Republican party. Tie absence
doubtful whether that sscard Of thanks" In the
1ames was not something quite dInescntfsom what
stappearcd to be on its face
NOW. when 1t Is known that there ia not an edi-
tor OF the TRIBUNE, who can read the Staats Zet-
tung,, or who OF his OWL knowledge knows the
meaning Of single sentence in the paper. to say
ticket must BE- very lItte. i at all known to the
Tn1nreE editore, and their opinion about its
''treachcronB staud' is worth just nothing. II any
body reads the 'card Of thanks III the Times he
nigh! suppose that the s'daks Zettung during the
W sse5g1 s
imposition. !, as member Of the House OF rep, p
r.ecntatfscs IN the State Legislature, was On no
10th the Governor and his Lieutenant, and in my
ven in ths pat5totf # caI sIaea ao9 81
oee9 tiaea ihe lie sesate M VIE hshy pased and
~ 1p,e nn snr1 9TH 1869 that became, sole pro-
ptIetor und CHEF editor Of 1I4e sfaafs Zsisung. and
tclalcnge the editors Of the TE!HusE Of any other
man to point out single article in the Stddts
Ztitnrg. that appeared since that day. and Which
contains the least attack a-ainst Cor. Yates or
ticlcs written In praise Of both these energetic Of
fccra,
It is true, before that time Lieutenant Governor
1otlnan-an5, may be-. in connection with him,
the staafs Zeifung: In April sth, 1861. COM
mence1 n,y connection with the .S;guts Zeitua0.
as a. IN ~ nezstant editor, who was hired and employed
Revenue. Mr.. Schneider WAS the chief editor. as
he 1sed TO call himself: and although not USED to
write editorial himself had the sole management
that TING large5 interested in the Illinois Savings
Bank, whose Vice President he is at the present
moment, and at whose directions I had to write
articles against the banking house of Hoffman,
Ge!rcke d Co, which ba.tking housc had mostly
German customers, while the Illinois Savings In
et'tution was also desiTous Of havin. German Gus
tson1ers. The banking house Of Hoffman, Gclpcke
g Go. went down in the stumptail times, and
rather excited and personal strife went on be-
tween Lieut. GOV. Hoffman and the Stats Zeituag,
which IVES kept mp until Nj. Geo. Schneider sold
hts interest out to nc.
Only during the brief absence of Mr. George
Schneider, who resided about one week at Elsnofe
as american Consul had the control OF the Sfadss
Getting. and for short time after he hLr. Schnei-
der'e return to Chicago I had to abstain entirely
from the editorial part Of the paper on IN account
Of Al an entire incompatibity ot our politealviews.
TIE 1act that the card Of thanks, refers to at
through the 'Sf1gfs Zeitang. and pretentls that
these attacks had influenced many Germans at tho
present election. shows eoncn:iVely that there is
fome other disguised motive for publishing this
imposition. III regard to the stand which Wns ta-
kcn BY The szaafs Zeitang during the last cam
pnleD, e. the paper which was the first to bring out
MT yan az candidate, speaks beet for itself.
ahail conclnsvtly silence tieec libels and insnna-
tons bF my articles themselves shall hive them Ill
Translated for publication IN the TRIBUNE. as
matter OF professional courtesy, If not in consider
ation Of common honesty and fair play, ron
wiz permit contemporary, committed like your
paper to ths grcat cause q the country, Of justice
battle Of loyaty against rebellion South and trea
son North, to speak for itself to your readers,
whom ron have Imisled and who can judge the
Sfadfs Zsttrng through no other medium. To
that truet the entire yin1icatlon Of my paper and
myself as to the Union ticket The Republicans Of
Chicago have right to know the course OF pa-
But they ought ais Q to understand the origin and
motive OF this nttack. The article of'1hc Tines is
an imposition; it is not the smanation OF Ger
Prodnct Of small clique Of political conspifators
III o''r OWL party, and, no doubt, the article was
concocted by them and put forth through the
tluced IN thc TRIBUNE. 1t is their design that
TIC Saatx ze!Nng is to he destroyed: Suspected.
shaking and ultimately OF destroying the conf
dencc Of the party-GeFman and A:ncrican-in tho
paper. Is It not strange coincidence that tho