Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-24
CEARFELD PA, WEDNESDAY SERIESvOl H.

the sweetly simple "ihree per cents
transferred to the Landgrave Of Hes
Sc for auxiliaries killed or wounded il
America. at the rate of about c30
head. We forget how much went tt
Nassau, and Brunswick, and Hanover
and Waldeck, and Anspach-for al
these small states wero in this butch
cry trade-but il was in each case M
trifie. at is noticeable" SAYS oul
friend, Mr.. Bancroft, whose cue wa
not just then ant-Catholic. "that the,
all came from Protestant countries.
But come they did. 1t was Won Heis
ter's yagers who led the onset al
Gowanus, and Owe love TO quote Ban
croft "pursued tho fugitive Ameri
cans relcntlessly through the thick
etsi @nd horc and there found amuse
ment in pinning with their bayonets d
rltieman TO tree. II was bicymnr
and Daun that did their best to make
Molly Stark widow at Bennington
1t was the drunken Rahl at Trenton
IL was Riedesel at Saraloga-anC
when we saw the enthusiasm of oul
Newark friends the other day over
Germany and America, we recalled
that dark day of December. 1776
when Washington left the village at
one end and CORVALLIS entered it at
the other, with his Germans in the ad
vance, spreading havoc and terror
and wanton carnage through New
Jersey, till their march was checked
forever by American yalor 10 the moat
at Red Bank. 1t is of these Hessian'
that another Radical New England
historian, Mr.. Palfrey, pleasantly
writes "Hired stabbers as long a,
they were in arms, horsc-iheives AZ
soon as they were beaten, they haC
nothing to claim at the hands o.
meekness itself" Such, unfortunate
ly, is the German record of our revo
luton aud, if the first crash of arms
and wars fiercest ravages should fall
on that little circle Of principaities
long since absorbed or presently
doomed, of which Hesse Cassel is the
centre, there will be something moi
unlike poetic justice in the event. II
was down the Wesser that the Hes
sian mercenaries foated on their way
TO America. 1t is true that old Fritz
of Prussia protested against this pitt
ful trade in men, but he did nothing
TO prevent il. lie was bound hanC
and foot by subsidies from Great Brit
ian, and either cared not or dared not
to contravone her purposes. Whil,
Franklin was an idol in Paris, Arthur
Lee had a dreary time in Berlin-hi,
papers stolen from him with i'm
punity, and the old king sullenly re
fusing to have anything to do will
him Bismarck is mnch more polite
to Bancroft.
These are old-time thoughts and
half obsolete memories, but they come
up irresistably under the pressure o
passing events; and it were neither
wise nor honorable 10 ignore then
utterly Whatever our Hossian friend,
in Paris may owe, before the war is
done, to the protection of America, il
will be but little thing in comparison
with tho debt which the German citi
zens of America owe to our institu
tions, and through those institions tC
France, which did so much to make
them possible. Let them ponder thi:
unacceptable fact with German homes
ty, and it can hardly fail to help them
to wiser appreciation of the mean,
ing of the measure Of that American
neutrality which is really as impor.
iant to them as to any other class OF
citizens in the great republic.