Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-06-24
THE NATIONAL sAENGERFEsT

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THE NATIONAL SAENGERFEST
The Seventeenth Saengerfest OF
the Saengerbund of North America,
held at Cincinnati last week, is pro-
nouneed grand success. Some forty
thousand strangers assembled in that
City and enjoyed themselves to their
hearts content.
Governor R. B. Hayes delivered
the welcome address. DR.. Biilhardt,
of our town, sat close to the Gov
ernor and speaks very highly ofth
speech. - ~
The musical performances are
awarded the highest praise. Messrs.
Martin, Brauns, Billhardt, Seider,
Engel, Stutz and others represented
Upper Sandusky A monster Picnic
closed the exercises. After the
banquet, various toasts were pro
posed, among which was,. The
land of our birth and the land of our
adoption" responded to by DR.. j.
NJ. Wise. The Doctor spoke in elo-
quent terms of the land of his birth
and hat Of his adoption. We es
pecially admire his tribute to Amer
ic. We reproduce part of his
speech:
The land Of my birth, sir, is
mountain girded Bohemia, where
music is the peasants consolation
and the chords of the harp, touched
by the soft fingers of the mountain
girl, pour forth somber melodies
re echoed from rocks Enthusiastically
grouped, and forests thick and dark.
You see,sir, am a real life Bohemi-
an, none of your artificial chevaliers
of the quill, and in our midst is a
young scion of that land of music
who, by the angelic charms of his
violin, speaks of my countrv's mus
ical fame. That mountain girded
Bohemia, however, is but one prov
ince in the great GermanIc Empire,
stretching its gigantic proportions
from sea to sea, and sheltering in it's
lay forty millions of Teuton's off
spring, whose language is. music to
every German ear, whose melodies
are poetical reminiscent es of para
disian days, whose literature is the
pride of humanity, and whose battles
upon the lofty fields of reason are
the most iustrious gems IN the dia-
dem of history. Why should not
the German love and revere the
land of his birth !? Upon the pin
ions of the wind. home, sweet home
of my youth, l send thee this kiss,
this fillial kiss. The soil in which
Martin Luther and Moses Mendels-
shon, Emanuel Kauts and Fredrie
Won Schiller, Mozart and Mey yerbeer
repose is sanctifed in the memory
Of humanity.
Youthful, vigorous, free and great
is the land of our adoption, This
land thigh mountains, broad plains
mighty streams and laundering cat
aracts is the home Of forty millions
Of free men and women, hospitable,
generous, humane, Intelligent, just
and free, who sing less and do more
work, think slower and act quicker,
make history in hurry and let 9th
ers write and study it-great is the
land Of our adoption. the youngest
daughter of civilization, the proud
heiress of the worlds mental treas
ures. She is far in the variety of
her colors rich, also, after the de-
Quoting of her enormous debts
promising. Notwithstanding, all the
promissory notes; intelligent, also
without her Congress and Cabinet;
praised, sir, loudly praised by all
disciples of liberty, aside of her
spread eagle and star spangled ban
ner orators. Why should one not
love and revere this land Of our
adoption Upon the pinions of the
rapid locomotive, the lightning tel
egraph, home, dear home of our
manlihood, we send the this kiss
no, this hearty shake hand, robust''
daughter of uni,npared nature. The
soil in which George Washington
and Thomaa JeisLson, Daniel W eb-
ster and Washington Irwin Cooper,
Prescott and Everett repo-e ;the soil
in which Roger Williams and Abra-
ham Lincoln are buried is no less
sanctified in the memory Of human