The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-28
THE GERMANS
a MASS MEETING LAST EyENING-M ADDREss TO
THE GERMANS AT uorT.

A MASS NETTING LAST EyENnNG-M ADDREss 10
THE GERMANS AT HONE.
About five thousand German citizens as
sembled in and around Coneordia Hall, last
evening, to give expression to their opinion
m reference to the warike condition of
affairs in Europe. The room was profusely
decorated with American and German flags.
At half-past 8 o'clock the meeting was called
to order by Professor Seidensticker upon
whose motion DIR. f. Morwitz was called to
the chair. After appointing vice-presidents
and secretaries, Mr.. Candidus submitted the
following address and resolutions, which
were adopted with the most enthusiastic
applause;
The German citizens of Philadelphia-the
birthplace Of American independence aud
Union-in mass meeting assembled, send
their brotherly greeting to the German peo-
pie:
As German Americans we feel the deepest
sympathy with the German fatherland and
the German people in their Just opposition
against foreign usurpation.
Not only as inhabitants of the great metro
polls, Philadelphia, with nearly one million of
inhabitants, Of which no less than $50, 900
are of German origin, but in the spirit of
all the Germans of the great State of Penn
s~ylvania. which among its four millions of
citizens counts nearly one-half of them Ger
mans, we address you these words
brave, noble, and industrious German Penn.
s~ylvania race is partly composed of the de-
scendants of those refugees who have been
driven away by that despot, Louis XIV, and
his incendiaries. one hundred and eighty
years ago from their honest Alsace, Lorraine,
the Palatinate, Baden, and Wurtemberg.
Could their sympathies be with the arch
enemy of the German race, the enemy who
has driven their fathers over the ocean. and
who has robbed the most beautiful German
provinces on the blessed garden spot of the
Rhine from the German nation? Could their
sympathy be with those whose policy is to
''rob and seek glory" and who allow neither
at home nor abroad independence and
liberty?
Certainly not The entire German Penn
s~ylvania race is with you and for you in this
great struggle. They invoke you thus:-The
time has come to blot out this disgrace borne
so long, and the German provinces of Alsace
and Lorraine, which the %conqueror at the time
of Germany's deepest distress tore away from
the German fatherland, now to reunite with the
newborn German nation to a reiuvenated
German union.
Napoleon III, the heir of the policy of the
conqueTor, the imitator of a Louis KIN,
again threatens the Rhine and the indepen-
dence of Germany. The time has come for
ever to break in two the sword and the rule,
the policy of the conqueror, and to break way
IOI lD6 IltGuOm Nv lultgEliy VI III udtlOuS.
Germen brethren, We know you have
risen like men against the insolent disturber
of your peace, your welfare, and sovereignty
as a people. We well know, and we are
proud to observe, that North and South Ger
many, monarchs and people, have formed an
indestructible covenant for the purpose of
defeating and humbling the common enemy!
We know that the remembrance of 1912
and 1915 like a fire cloud travels over Ger.
ay6 l-inIlac tho fop,ac in auarv haorf
Brethren in Germany, we feel proud and
happy at the receipt of such message, being
convinced that the disgrace of olden times,
that a Rheinbund. q divided Germany, can
never be repeated by a foreign usurper.
You are united, and thus you will be victo
rious; you will %vanquish all your enemies
We here pledge ourselves to assist you will
all our might to bear the heavy burden ant
sufferines caused by the war.
Your wounded, the widows and orphans Of
your warriors. are also our wards. And TO
this you have here the pledge of brothers
who, Notwithstanding the great distance o
space that separates them from you; DESPITE
their working in another glorious union o
States, yet with undying love and fdelit.
cling to the old German fatherland, German
customs, habits, and German language.
Victory be with you! May victory crow
the banners under your brave generals Vic
tory not for revenge, but for a Just retribu
ton for the old insult and a full guarantee o
a lasting peace. Victory till the overtime,
of the third and last of the Bonapartes shal
be accomplished. the Caesar of modern time
dethroned, and the politics of the Caesars de
stroyed, a policy created upon the ruin @
nations for the glory and avarice of a DIES
potic dynasty.
Speeches were made by DR.. Morwitz, d.
Kellner, and others.