Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-08-10

Ihe war cry IN Paris, " To the Rhine"
was answered at once by all Germany with
Becker's celebrated Rhine song " Ste sollen
rim NIGHT haben, den freien deutschen Rhein 90
They shall not have the free German Rhine y
The Germans forgot their own quarrels and
enmities in the hour when the news came
that the French were moving on the Rhine
for the German national pride and love of
existence is centsred in the possession of
that river.
Baden, Wurtemberg, Bavaria and Hesse
did not hesitate a moment to declare their
intention to support the North in the contest
for the Rhine and the new provinces forgot
all their past misfortunes in their anger at
the conduct of France and their zeal for the
national cause. In Cassel, the capital of
Hesse-C assel, the King, on his way home to
Berlin, was enthusiastically cheered to lead
| Germany on, and when he arrived at Berlin
hundred thousand people met him and
shouted Justify, " To the Rhine -
In Frankfort-on-t the Main where two weeks
ago the King of Prussia was the most I'M
popular man in Germany, the national feel
| ing is shown everywhere the troops march
| ing through the city are greeted and cheered
| by many thousands Of the inhabitants, and
on the evening after the declaration of war
the youth of the city paraded the streets,
and assembled in one of the public squares,
where they sang the national hymn and
" The Watch on the Rhine" Never was
there such revolution of public opinion
and feeling; and all are ready to fight fol
the fatherland and the Rhine.
THE GERMAN PRESS.
% East and west. south and north of tn,
fatherland," says the Cologne ZeituRg, " hay'
only one feeling-that of Indignation at th,
French assumptions. ' Germany is uni
ted" says the same journal in another place
' the organs of the Catholic and Democratic
parties strive with the constitutional jour
mails for the war in which France has involves
Germany"
FIERY APPEAL.
The Cologne Zeifunq has, in its numbel
for June Is, fiery article which closes with
a call upon the Germans to arms in words
which find welcome in all parts of the faith
erland
'' Sic sollen ihn NIGHT haben, den freier
deutschen Rhein Up, We jewellers os tn,
distant amber coasts, We brave. East Prus
slams, who opened the ranks of freedom il
1916, Up, We valiant Suabisns, ye who be
fore now led the storming flag of the Empire
and had the front of the battle Up, "
Silesians, who reddeDed the Katzbach with
French blood Up, ye Hanoverians, who
gained glory upon the Iberian peninsuls
against the old despot, and show now how
madly and abominably the new one deceives
himself when he thinks that but one man oil
you can be made traitor to his flag when tbs
hereditary enemy is here y Break forth
from your mountains, We old warrior Bava
rians from your forests, ye Thuringians and
Hessians be true to your fathers ye Ger
man Saxons who threw off the detested yoke
} of France and went joyfully over TO the Ger.
man flag Up, all who are German, to the
Rhine, TO the Rhine, TO the sacred Rhine
with the wings of the storm, if so it can be
We do here what we can. Rich and poor
old and young, are rushing to the flag tht
upper classes of the gymnasia must be re
leased, for even the youth, burning will
} indignation, will redeem the honor of tn,
King and the German name. Oh, Ems
Moritz Arndt, had thine eyes seen this thoI
wouldst have known that thou didst not liv,
in vain
The memory of the good patriot Arndt il
security enough for the Rhine. He it wa
who sung g The Rhine is Deutschland
stream, but never Deutschland's border,
and this line is inrooted firmly and deeply il
every Germans heart. In passing amid tn
crowds of excited people who throng tn
streets of the city from which this letter j
written, and calling TO mind the hatred o
! Prussia manifested here not long ago, tn
conviction becomes all the frmer, that tn
German spirit is aroused, and the words G
} Theodo KornOr, 81 Das Volk sheht auf, de
Sturm brick los - cannot be driven out {
the mind