The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-15
The German Element.

On the first of May the National
flag was borne aloft in the city of Mo
bile, for the first time since 1860, by
the hands of citizens. The sight was
| inspiring to the few loyal men in Mo-
bile, and was gall and bitterness to
the RECONSTRUCTED of that city. 1t was
more annoying to the rebels who had
just deposited their votes for the pi-
rate Semmes foT the most important
Office In the gift of the city, from the
fact that the flag was borne by pro-
cession of people they hate. with a
hatred more intense than that they
cherish for the Yankees themselves,
the Germans.
The Turner Society of Mobile par
AIDED, and despite threats and warn
ings of danger, they marched through
the streets of that second Sodom with
the banner of beauty and glory waY-
ing over them. An effort was made
to mob them, but the determined aud
gallant bearing of the Germans, and,
the fact that they were well prepared
to defend themselves, satisfied the
secessiOnists that the attempt would
result in bloody struggle in which
they were certain to be worsted. and
they wisely forbore.
+ During the rebellion the German
population of the South was univer-
sally and steadfastly loyal In Texas
they suffered death by hundreds rather
than renounce their allegiance to the
Government, and In every locality
where Germans had settled, the es-
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was sure to find friends. German.
loyalty was a rock immovable and
steadfast, against which the waves of
|. reasonable fanaticism beat in vain
Itscould not be moved or shaken, and
where it disappeared from sight it was
destroyed. Fear of consequences
could not compel them to desert their
standard, and fattery and cajolery did
not move them They believe In
freedom; they worship liberty, and
they were true to the only Govern
ment on earth, under which they
could hope to realize their ideas of
liberty and equality, and rather than
succomb to treason they sacrificed
property, social standing and life it
self. The forty German fathers hang
rag, in gr0vesini Texas, their wives
and children houseless and homeless,
was the most sublime spectacle Of de-
votion to principle the world has ever
witnessed, and chat scene was repeat
ed IN every community ia the South
where Germans were found
e4 - s'Ts s7asqaais 70 Aiissauri were fbe
thas osaSe af
plunging Mfo the eortex 81 rebellion.
aud during the struggle fiiey sre
foremost in suce0Tlng and SD 1linina
the Federal cause 1eir votes, their
purses, and their lives were given
ti 59ffbltF tot ID tf BE nation NJ -i-,' z
Through German emigration wa
hope for the final raising of the Sontb-
ern States from the dead level of local
attachments to the higher plane of
nationality. The German considers
has allegiance due first to his Govern
ment, atferward to his State. he hates
slavery with q hatred intensified 6v
the recollections of the SUFFERING he
endured when he himself was the
victim OF 1t, In another form. and q
toller himself he regards labor hon
ora pie The climate of the South and 7
Its fertile soil has always possessed I
an almost irresistible attraction for I
them, and now that slavery is out of
the way the tide of emigration will
DC turned In that direction. They
VIII lntWenty years. probably in half l.
hat time, control the South.