The national Republican., 1869-03-03
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

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NJ Their boarding house, No. 4s1 Z street,
near fourth street. The arrangements Tor
Tho affair have been In progress for some
weeks past, under tho general management
OF the following committees from the various
German associations Of this city;
For the Washington saengerbundi ii: Is.
Peterson, Paul Harenstein, Edward s,oipe'
For the Washington Turn-yerein II. X.
Kluckhuln, L. Dietrich, A. Kenchel. For
the German Association A. Hart, William
steinmetz, VIM. Burchard. For the wash
ington schuetzcn Yercm b. Henze, Charles
Ebei, Hugo Kaudler. For the Arion Quar-
tette Club. Relnhold springsguih, +. L.
Schmidt, v. Hagman. For the Columbia
Tum-Vercin, VIM. Hcins, John Euders,
veroln VIM. wurz, l.. Lemkul, Charles
strott. For the Grutli vereini Caspar Kneesl,
L. Frisard, b. T. scheitlm. For the Ger
man Veterancn Bund: II. A. Walter, W.
Young, J. Jenk. Germans Of Washington
at large; Charles II. Berger, Charles VI. |
Beckert, DR.. VIM. Briegleb, e; Peterson, =.
stosch, Charles Ebert, Daniel Pfcil, l.. Wal |
decker, r. waldecker, NJ. Lausburgh, Z. |
Sounenberg, Phil. Relder, II. Werner, DR.. |
Riesler, Jacob Jouvcnal.
About O'Clock last night the associations
named above assembled at Trades Union
Hall, corner Of Eighth and Z streets, and
having been formed In procession proceeded
to the residence Of the gentlemen who were
TO be the recipients Of their courtesy. Shortly
before this time, however, the following com
mittcc had waited on the gentlemen TO notify
them Of the advance OF the procession
Messrs. L. waldecker, II. r. kluckhuhn, A.
Hart, b. Hcnze, r. Springsguth, Z. 8. Smith,
William Helms, L. Specyler, G. Knoesi, J.
Jcnk, Charles II. Berger, DR.. William Brieg-
leb, DR.. Reis,er.
Mr.. Kluckhuhn, the chairman ofthe special
committee read the following address,
To TIC Hon. Carl SchHrE, Uaifed States Sen
dtor, aud Hon. q. 4. Fhksln5arg, Member
Of Congress elect:
Gentlemen: At meeting Of German clti-
zcns Of Washington, 1t was unanimously re-
solved, that the gratifying occasion Of your
election TO the Congress Of the United States
should be celebrated by scrcnade; and fur
thcr, that oil German associations OF this
city walt upon you on your arrival In this
city, while delegation, representing all
these associations, as well as the German
population at large, should greet you In the
name of those they represent TO bid you well
come, and congratulate you upon your great
success.
Il was further resolved, that to prevent
any misconstructlon Of this demonstration,
an address should be drawn up embodying
the aforesaid resolutions, and setting forth
the motives therefor.
In accordance with the above resolutions,
your fellow-countrymen are now greeting
you, and declare that the Germans OF WASH
ington by no means look upon you as repre-
senting any interests of Germans which are
not in harmony with the interests OF the
American people at large, but are awar,
that you have been elected by American cit
lzens to represent their rights and their
interests.
Actuated by the same spirit which prompted
the people of Missouri, when they found you
worthy, although born In foreign country
to represent them In the highest Legislative
bodies Of the nation, We call upon you tC
congratulate you, without attaching TO thi,
happy event of your election any hopes fol
personal ambition or gain.
We greet you with hearts full OF Joy fol
having conquered as Germans, In spite Of a
foreign language and many existing preju-
diccs, and for having, by your manly and
honorable conduct, succeeded In winning the
respect and highest regard even Of that por-
tion of the people which docs not stand
with you upon the same political platform.
We confidently assume that such men US
yourselves are most fit to bring about the
recognition Of those great principles, the de.
fence Of which has brought you into the
high and honorable positions which you ar,
now about to I'LL.
The committee having delivered the ad
dress, and Its receipt acknowledged In few
sang an appropriate piece, which was fol
lowed by music by the 18th Infantry band
After another song by the Sengerbund anC
Orion Club, Hon. Carl Schurz was intro
duced to the audience. He thanked his Ger
man friends for the hearty reception given
him and Mr.. Finkelnburg. They were
celebrating an event, the importance oil
which did not consist in the success of two
individuals, but in an evidence OF the pro,
gressiye fraternizatlon, or rather the blend
Ing of the different national elements In this
country. The most vigorous and active na
tlons were not those whose members hat
sprung from the soil they inhabited, but tn,
mixed nations, which were the results of tn,
crossing of different natonalities, as tn,
English, the German, the French, and, aboy,
all, the American-the most vigorous natIoi
now on the face of the earth.
Among the national elements which ha,
intermingled with the Anglo-Saxon stocl
none has shown more adaptabilfy TO tn,
spirit that governs this country and TO its In
stitutions, more love of liberty and more
fidelity to the national cause than the Ger.
man citizens of this Republic; and in the
event which they were celebrating tonight
they could sec an evidence of WILLING
recognition Of this fact by the native Amcri
cans themselves. This result was obtained
not by the efforts Of u few individuals; al
the Germans that during the war had car
ernment at the ballot-boS or by contributing
their money In this country and In the OF,
World as well, (for In the Old World no ma
tion had shown such an unfalterng faith Ii
the perpetuity Of this Republic as the Ger
mans,) they all had contributed toward III
achievements
The blending Of the nationalties ought t
90 on as It had gone on heretofore. No Ger
man would deny, In coming to this country
that in the Americans he found traits O
character and Of mind In which they wert
superior to himself. On the other hand, the
German brought into this country certain
characteristics and mental requirements az
as an equivalent for what they received from
the Americans. The German by accepting
the former would become good American,
and the American by accepting the latter
would become better American than he was
before.
II he was TO act as the representative OF
the German mind il would be In this sense.
The end Of the struggles on questions of
principles which had so long been agitating
the country was near at hand. New issues
would arise, and he hoped the Germans
would follow the same patriotic course as
before, and that the same sentiments OF mu-
tual good will and confidence now existing
between them and their representatives would
continue lie would faithfully endeayor to
40 MS duty TO all, so as to Justify the choice
OF the Americans who had elected him, and
10 do honor TO the German name,
MI. fmkelnDurg was then introduced, and
said In 80 far as he could take this demon
stratlon us an evidence of their feeiing
towards himself, he returned his thanks as
a mark of respect for the position TO which
he had been elected. He thanked them In thc
name of the citizens of the I'd Congregational
district of Missouri, whom he expected IN
represent In the next Congress-. Aher what
had been said by the distinguished gentleman
who had preceded him he had but a few
words to say. II had been said that In the
election Of Gen. schurz and himself the
Americans had sent to Congress the first
9erman-born members. II this was SO he
did not wish II to be regarded as triumph
Of German nationality, but as an abandon
ment of American excluslyeness.
They did not, he said, stand here as the
exclusive representatives of particular natiy-
ityj on the contrary, their election showed
that In Missouri they had arrived at that
standpoint which dlsregards nationality, and
that In Missouri the field Of political deyel-
nnmnnI IA fran In al and that N tho M InIa.