, 1865-02-19
To The Editor of t1tc Neyr y,rE. Tr9hpra.

Id ue Eu1tOF ol TIC New York Tribune:
SIZE: n m article Of your valuable paper
New York Turner Associati tion, and which
only reached me yesterday, the followiug
passage occurs:
Franz Stgel, having recruited sevetel Germsu
Ilair ambltions Of bring he Inst IL VIC should 10
H. il = or sSa foe a. ss
lation OF St Louis did not fiji up 50 1apidlJ,
and the earnest Tepresentaions Of slrei. anti lie
into 1ene1 Rosaesson, Induced Iyon POI 70 Ssik
3nst 1 t9 be placed beside that Of Lyon
Although hare, Tor many reasons, not
found 1t Convenient to enter into refutation
of number Of attacks and deamations pro-
pagated against me By certain pa pezs, how
ever cannot be silent when statements ara
made which give more credit to nc than I
should consctentiously accept, and which, ut
shadsw on one Of my fellow citizens. there.
1orc take leave TO make the following re-
marks:
At the beginning Of this1 var, and I'M
meaiately after the first call for troops, I
(the Sd MlssourD and one battalion of nrtil-
lery. and not more the other regiments were
raised and organized By F. P. Blair, ust) H.
Boernstein, .tsd) and F. schuttner, (4th), The
I'd, Sd, aud 4th regiments consisted exclusive
~ fGerman~AmeTican citizens, the greater
part Of the 1st was composed Of members Of
the st. Louis Tu,nrerein, which we're organ
lied and drilled as companies long before tho
call was made ); the rest Of the regiment con-
eisted, as think, Of French and American
born citizens.
It is true that it was with some difficulty
I obtained authority from General Lyon.
whoee memory will forever be dear to me, to
enter the Arsenal with my regiment or bat
talon; bnt I cannot suppose, and did never
say or hear It said, that The delay was oce2-
stoned BY secret interference OF Gen. Blafrs
time captain Of infantry, was not quite sure
whether the acceptance OF "such an army of
men'' would not Increase his responsibilities
Or crowd the Arsenal IN IN inconvenient Way
time IN regard to the swearing in Of the con-
panies ard battolions which entered the Ar
senal. They rushed in and were eworn al
most simultaneously, and as last as Lieut.
schoheld could make the round. The organi-
zation Of the Third Missouri Regiment, which
l undertook, was begun and more than hale
of it completed within three days-ftom Fri
day evening the 10th to Monday, the I'D Of
April, 1861, when We entered the. ArsenalS
during this short period Of time not much IN
Tie companies Of The St. Louis Tu1nve-
rein were the best prepared to be mustered
in. they were the Arst IN the arsenal, and
therefore the regiment Of which they formed
d part was well entitled to be called the first.
although the Sd Missouri may have been first
| companies and men.
AS to my name being entitled to be-
| placed beside that Of yon--"fnstead oE
BlaIrs" woqla rather propose oT spM Mihn .1ar q
Luo7 can well afford. without losing Of it&
eplcudor, to be associated with even more
! than one or two Of those faithful citizens and
soldiers Of the Republic who IN that terrible
| ayoWed and declared that they would not n{-
low the city and county Of ST. Louis, or the
| State OF Missouri, to become prey to seces-
sioniem. In fact, neither the great captaln''
| would hive performed their rules as success
| fullJ rs they have done If not protected. and
pushed and carried forward By the patriot
ism, foresight and resolute energy. of the
| people Of st. Louis. And in connection with
this fact, 1t cannot be denied that BY, far the
the adopted citizens Of the State Of Mlssons1,
sometimes called tiny German friends, PIE
ye,y often also s'the damned Dutch" Ihi5
cpiihct, with the addition 10 o1 tha ,ratrh- ds
has s,fo been o1 of the Republic il the
stota SoLa u ri y Missouri, and the prosecutions
atase s.thcse dsmncd Dutch had to SUI
fcr-the scorn and a contenpt ,-sct,pe9 nen
ATdfH1-
upon upon 4tem fns1n even when crippled By wounda
sss5sE il tne 4 The e5s ayes q
nase ! 11olt to be at least "honotahlY" meu-
In nfts sases5a as5isa fessa e Sa ass Ba
aaaL,n'..a]IV IL 10 If our brains are heated BY mo-
and go55legs 5esamts tsumph II Il
nrcnaytiou to tho cxnlting news received
50 PFpsP1ts N hs s0SSn s0S Eg,s whs1s her,
no time to reflect much on events which came
to pass 'longag = perhaps somewhere ''oyer
the Arkansas line" although they may oHc
to such obscure facts their lires and lihcrtiea-
We must therefore not be too harah In regard
to ''Hying articlc'' on the history Of today.
especially i We consider that the tribune hiss
never Joined In the ISLANDERS and eondema,nass nda,cs
tions OF some Of its colleagues, nor exMmIa ex1,mss
over every misfortune which has bc'auo&
German troops or German comm;a.nas5so ~.
As TO the rest Of the .e'ts; 5sdpps T. ~ '
lam. sir. very respectfully yours
i Da6.tst,n, Pa, 1as'. 80, 1855