, 1864-01-09
Tho Germans of Chicago and tho
Evening Journal.

Editors Chicago Tribune:
.Aecurillous article, ridicu1ing the German pop
plation Of this city, appeared in the Erenlng Jour
truth and Justice 6y giving space to q brief refu
ta;ion Of the many malicious Misrepresentation
which eeem to be the especial delight Of the Jour
i wa With feeling more Of regret, than disgust
that peIused the passage, in which the writer
hcge OF bis chrietian american readers "not to
'.smops the Germans, n o. be would not @ ask Them then,
ITO come tn p5orTt0 persona. but only on paper
This eounds s:-puge by tho side Of our Kepubli-
wih tie toho 4 oaT Ssr nsetiags @ f2p'se snd &c
call 10 arms; stranger etill when We regard the
progress which cosmopolitan ideag hi<e Of late
se Mbo II T Il s .i %
these lines, and I should sincerely pity 'hia
Amer1can Ieaders II such dattery conld tickle their
@ Mhs soash Sea1 e Ps
gentleman. and it seems that at the German theatre
ho was constantly haunted BY the sight Of beer.
hand} ard concludes that .sGelman without beer e
10 Ike chip without rudder "a forlorn and un-
happy creature" Such e14ggerations are simply
inel{ remarks, that mp staira in the German thea
tIe there is eome email effort at dress and deco7,n1
tho faintest shade OF attempt at distinction from
ite tanoWe down below, when be compares the
q the Chicago River, he oyersteps the bounds OF
decency. and even the license Of a Newspaper re-
EuI5G1, ano HeWoEder now paper ofAny standing
u IT, ,hs r1y can snaorse 80 such vugarties BY
The writer's private opinion only challenges COM
Bity sas xhsp saes S1'n o2bd s
foRs esm ant g npa1s!t citizen
aware that the German audience, 20 offensive to
its refined reporter is quite Is Intelligent "a many
fashionable gatherings at NcVieker'ef That those
s3ue Germans know their classical, tragic poets
By heaFt, and c1idciee and FOLLOW the performance
n n n nd
ttor, as is ever enycloped in broadc1oth and ads
and tineel md show ut American theatres! True,
they look modest, true the majority consists IN
stnidy mechanics, true they form in conjunction
With ,; The American laborigg men the bone and
be ridiculed By public Journalist. While the jour-
raj pictured these Germans Gs tho ''Pariah'B' Of
Eaeety, they certainly did not remember that their
fathers and sons were bfavety battling On the
Hcpnb5ic. they doubtless % I'D not believe, taat
German valor and German lore for freedom will
IN the annals OF this war nnd. most honorable
mention, that tn Missouri Tho Germans led
ha5aly Federal regiment i n ths e!d Z whose
dlGrs wcud Iot crate harshly On the 1ou,7sars SEN
We are sharing Jour trials and sacrifices and OF.
fer, rs willingly as you, our treasure and our blood
comes TO our doors, death da1kens our hearth and
leaves the .nme eoHow, which Ills yonr heart.
when nnwelcome tldfnga reach you from the held
Of battlet How then can Jou descend to base re-
yiling and unfounded abuse OF an element, which.
In common with btare Americans, protects your
luxurious and aristocratic hone1
NC believe In the final soc1al aud political nmal-
Eamatiou Of all the different nattOnalittes In this
Repnblc, but ccnsure, Euch IA stains the columns
Of the JorTnol. Ia hardly Ito create similarity