The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-22
OFFICE No. Ios s. THIRD STREET.
tn Advertiser.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1864.
A vENDICATION.
A DAILY AFTERNOON NEwsPAPER.

vENDICATION.
The handsome completeness enjoyed by
many Of our fellow-citizens of German birth,
and the general thrift of those people taken as
a whole, is, we observe, the subject Of a sneer
upon the part of New York paper, which
characterizes them as "barrers to the pro-
gress of improvement" and as perversely
withholding their aid from all reformatory
and progressive measures connected with
business enterprises Our contemporary, and
Others who may entertain invidous sentl-
ments with reference TO the money-getting
prepensities of the Germans would manifest
q greater degree of good sense in initiating
their example, than in reprobating hSR deter
mined energy, abstemiousness, and self-denial.
For in the German character there is much to
elicit admiration, much which it would be
well TO emulate, and which exercises a whole
some influence.
OF the diverse sources from which our
population is derived, there is perhaps none
more respectable in character, or physically
more vigorous, than those which own an
entire or partial German parentage. OF such
are large portion of the people of this State,
Of Ohio, OF Illinois, and the West generally.
In fact, of that portion of the people of the
United States who are the second generation
Of Teutonic stock, very large part are
Americans in whom the country may take
pride, and who will be found fully represented
in all the posts OF trust, and honor, and learn
ing throughout the country.
The Germans had a mission to perform
here, which no other people could have full
flled 80 well-just as the Irishmen have had
and fulfilled theirs better than any others
could have accomplished it. That they have
d0&e for us what we could not nearly so soon,
Az y 30 well, have done for ourselves, is as
ftnt as MONDAY. The aid which the one
Rendered in the erection Of our buildings
&0pe digging of our canals, and the construc'
3{o% %of our railroads, has been equalled by the
remarkable, the unprecedented rapidity with
which the primeval forests have given room
10 unobstructed fields under the axe of tht
other. For the rapidity with which the wild
of this State have been cleared, we repeat the
praise is eminently due TO its German settlers
In all our rambles through the agriculture
districts of the country, mere examination o
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nationality of its settlers. For, whereas tn
Anglo-American, as soon as piece Of groun,
Is chopped and burnt out, proceeds at once t
raising crop between the stumps, the Gel
man goes patiently and plOddingly with hi
grubbing-hoe, undermines every root, an
burns 1t into ash-manure, and thus slowly bu
surely he proceeds until his field is as free q
fallow, subsisting meantime upon fare s
simple that the very poorest of us woul
recoil from it.
But by and by the reward comes. Th
second year, when the Yankee settler las
very little better crop than that Of the first
for the stumps have not begun to decay-tl
German is tilling a tract mellowed by de
subsoi ploughing. Aud this sell-den
which he has been obliged to practise is
hardship to the Teuton; he has acquiI
patience and perseverance in his VGterIa
in rendering arabic the side-hills and wa
places, such as we almost wholly neglect,
which he covers with thrifty vines.
1t is for this reason that we discover
many beautiful farms in out-of-the-way plaC
in this State especially, where no one wo
expect to find any relief from the surround
wilderness--firms which, if located on
banks Of the Delaware near this city, &
adorned with little shrubbery, which
Germans rather disregard, would be col
dered as models of order, uniformity,
good cultivation.
In business, whether small or large,
German ever keeps in view the same prudt
pOinstaldng, seli-denying policy, carefI
hugging the shore until he has acquired 81
cient sail to venture into deeper water.
reveres the maXms of FRANKLIN with
swerving fidelity; and the entire secret of
success hangs upon single peg-he inva
bly, squares his expenses to his income;
inasmuch as money is rather accumulated
steady gain and economy than bysudden '
tations of fortune, it follows that the Germ
makes money to at least moderate exten
he is doing any business at all. Again, a
class, the German commercial houses are 9
orally considered sale and reliable, both
this city and New York, and we believe
remark viii apply as Justly elsewhere.
We only intended to write a single po
graph, suggested by the attack above refer
to; and we c,ose by repeating that, ins.ol,
cepsuring Or ridiculing the thrift, the
gality, aud The plodding industry of this
pie, it would be much more to our praise
wen as to our interests, we made those c
acterists a model for imitation.