The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-08-26


No COMFORT THERE. The inddel Ger
mans do not get any comfort from one
source where perhaps they had with some
the American Sunday Rev Robert
Collyer writes to the -LaI.qraI Christian !,
There Is serious trouble brewing out
this way between what may be fairly
/ termed the German and American ele
ments. just now the question touches
/ the very fiber Of our differing life, IN the
4 observance of the Fourth of July The
/ American element in our city puts of
/ this observance SO far a s:rackers and
gunpowder 20, until the fifth. The Ger
mans want to celebrate as if it was week
/ day They go out Of the city to do this:
/ still there is aggravation and defiance in
! the way they so, and no doubt there will
/ their staying Their advertisement OF
somewhat startling. | viii copy the
heads, ,Banquest, Reunion, Grafton,
/ Nelocipede Races. Concerts. Plc-qic, ="
/ and general enjoyment. l viii venture
/ to say that they have never done a more
/ foolish thing since they were Dutchmen
! There is frank and kindly disposition
in the American heart to our German
/ brothers in these communities. We re-
! cognize their fine qualities and are glad
! always to stand with them against the
/ straiter sects for fair freedom in the
way they shall spend both Sunday and
week day but, if / know anything about
/ this nation, [ know that it mems to
/ maintain one day in seven separate from
/ the rest, TO keep this day for public wor-
i ship and for sacred uses in some large
/ and liberal sense. [ believe this to be a
right instinct and principle, and the Ger
/ man tendency to make it merely day of
noisy festivity entirely wrong. If they
90 on.the question must come to an issue.
| There will be an attempt to restrain their
! demonstrations within fair bounds, and
it will succeed The American is, and
must be, and onght to be, the governing
! life Of this great Republic. Twas not
| the German who fought and Won in the
/ old Revolution, God help him, poor tei
| low. He was sold like dumb beast to
| fight on the other side; and so | think
there Is neither grace nor good manners
in the way In which he proposes to go IN
| the teeth Of those who won the freedom
he wants to turn into a cloak tor lIcen-
| tiouSness, and make cur whole life, as
/ far as he can, one big lump Of rank ma
terialism. This sort of thing is very diff
! ferent from the sweet and gracious OBJ
/ servance, about which some of US differed
in the decoration of the soldiers graves !:
and Liberal Christians can no more give
/ it countenance than illlberal Christians
can. If there Is to be contest about
the matter there will be no division We
shall stand as one man for our own side.
A cores pondent of the Cincinnati
C0n1mactI{ says that In the State OF
Kentucky, within less than twelve hours
OF Cincinnati, in radius OF twenty miles
around HarrodSburg, IuOre than twenty
| five persons have been hung by Regu
latcrS during the last two years, probably
hundred severely dashed, and an unas-
certained number ordered to leave the
country. But little of this has reached
/ the pGDlic prints. 1t is at the risk OF
IFS that this statement Is now made.
On Saturday evening, ten days ago, the
town was alarmed by fearful cries from a
wretched man .who was seized on the
streets, taken outside Of corporate limits
| and swung to the limb of tree, until
/ plying hands next day removed the fes-
/ tering corpse. This man prayed and
| pleaded that he might be allowed trial
before the courts of the country for any
crime charged to him. In the stiffness OF
/ the night his anxious pleadings could be
heard for half a mile; others-some min
isters-endeavored to reach the ears OF
/ tie parties who were bringing the straug-
4 ling victim. They could not give the
/ countersign. and were promptly repuised,
while the man (son of a former represen-
tatlve of the county in our Legislature
was gagged and hurried to his doom.
A correspondent Unmarried sug-
eests that Solomon's wisdom was due t.