Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-03
EHR WEEKLY HERALD
WAS EUROPE.

- tAJs 1A1PAl ShAa
0Eed TO show 8 possible result in
the situation Of the two armies Of
France and Prussia, without ex-
pressing q preference for either.
At the same time We gave our
views astO the actual causes Of the
war, and went behind those given
to the world. We do not deny
that many Germans were in the
Confederate army, and made
good soldiers, nor do we say
that the people Of the South
owe any special friendship to the
French for the part which they
took in the war between the North
and the South. The resident Ger
mans and French sided with the
sections in which they were loca-
ted at the breaking out of the wal
which was perfectly natural. But
during the war vast numbers of
Germans came over to the United
States and since we Of the South
had no direct communication with
Europe, they all landed at the
North; nearly all Of whom, who
took q part in the war, sided with
the Federal authorities. This we
attributed as much to the fact that
Bismarck had educated the Ger
man mind to adhere to the name
Of the Union, as to any other
cause. OF course being strang.
ers in this land they had
no sympathies, but being
taught to desire and love Union
at home they could not under
stand why we made war aginst
it. The original causes Of the
war they were neither apprized of
nor sought to understand. They
simply comprehended one fact,
which was that we, of the
South, fought against Union
and they had been educated to be
Iieve it the highest duty of
German life, and what was desira
bic as a benefit to them, they nat
urally thought must be equally
desirable with other people.
VIcksBURG, Aug. IS, 1879.
Friend Spears, EditOrOf the Herald:
SIN You will do me and your
many readers a favor if you will
publish the following few lines. l
have perused your war article Of
the 9th inst, and thinking that
you have slightly, though uninten-
tionally, hurt the feelings Of a
good number Of German survivors
OF the Lost Cause !" therefore, |
feel it my duty, as well as | can,
to defend myself and them in a
short article. Ifyou will publish
The same, you will oblige me and
many friends.
Louis Napoleon is q great man
nerhaps no one has admired his
genius more than l have. He
made France a great and powerful
nation. His reign has brought
peace to revolutionary and excited
France. All that, the world knows
ana admits. The French are a brave
and kind. hearted people, but what
Eight or cause have we to favor the
French army more than the Ger.
man, educated as the German is
to hate slavery, yet when the war
broke out between the North and
South, let me ask you did you see
3 single Southern company that
did not have some representative
from Germany? You sayin your
article Of August p, that the Ger
mans as a class we're fighting
against those that made "trouble
NIT the oonion." Tell me how
many Germans could you find in
the South when the war COM
menced; have not they or are
they not mere ciphers in the Sun
NJ South. Look at the census of
1860 and see how many Germans
Iivedin the South at that time. In
point Of numbers of the German
population, you must confess that
sg we're as well represented as
INV population, and as far as any ,
body knows, they did as good
aphting. Now let me know what {
did the French do for us /
hat we should give them all {
our sympathy and the poor Dutch /
none. How many Frenchman {
lid you see, 1.-THE French from l
Tiperary excepted, hurrah for I
hose boys) in the Confederate I
states Afmy2 Even the French
state Of Louisiana, New Orleans 7
ncluded, had o Dutchman for ev- q
~ Frenchman in the Confederate t
'tafes ranks. Louis Napoleon '
Iad a large army in Mexico, why in /
he deuce did he not come and help }
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