New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-21

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well as exult in the consciousness OF
having supported with fidelity, and main
| tanned with power, cause second to none
that has ever agitated the world or called
people to arms
In the schools Of philosophy the Ger
mans are leading thinkers; SO have they,
too, in the world of science and research
added to the worlds catalogue OF memo
rabIe names many that will live while the
| earth bears plant OF the sea rolls its
| waves There is no art or calling not
illumined with the lights of their mental
progress and improvement; and in the
steady contributions Of industrial skill to
| the worlds store of material productions,
| none have outworked the Germans. What
| people can invoke more illustrious stars,
of brilliance more refulgent, or magnitude
more vast, in the literary armament,
whether of poetry, history or romance,
than they? American literature, although
hardly yet nationalized into distinctness,
has some of the German features promi-
nent in its best genius and highest art,
as well as many German names to adorn
it. We can not pause to recall names in
an article indispensably brief and limited.
| What foreigner acquires our language
with more facility, becomes Americanized
to higher utility, adheres with greater
firmness to liberty and law, in which lie
| our safety and perpetuity? If patriotism
be properly, as we think, the love of truth,
of Justice and Of freedom, where will we
60 for surer or truer patriots, whether
- In German fatherland!
On Swabian soil, or Prussia's strand!
Whether beside the sunny Rhine,
Whose clustering grapes yield golden wine
Or On the farther Battles shore
Where sea birds scream to oceans roar"
Or in the land Of liberty and popular
nghts-our own?
There are no cities or towns in this
country not well-leavened with Germans.
South, West, North and East alike ac-
knowledge their presence with gladness
and their influence with pride, commend
ing alike their social habits Of peaceful
industry and clearly, frugal tastes, and
profting all by the example Of their pru-
dence and the results Of their thrift. In
our city there is very large slice Of Ger
man population, and in individual sue
cesses as well as in worthy class institu-
tons, it is unexcelled. In the profess
sions they rank with the foremost. Amid
the changes of noted names at our bar,
going back half century to the time
when there were jurists and orators, that
ranked with the most distinguished Of the
country, adjoining the New Orleans bar,
what one of them all, following on through
the transitions Of years, has ever sur
passed in reputation or power, influence
or eloquence goodness or learning the
present foremost man, now venera-
BILE for his years as he is beloved for
his virtues-Christian Roselius? It was
not our intention to crowd these few re-
marks with Names but the sparkle of our
city's foremost lawyer own old pre-
ceptors-caused us incontinently to let
our purpose slip. We will Offset it now
by brilliant memory in compliment to
the rival profession Of medicine. All re-
member DR.. Luzenburg, one of its chiefs,
whose demise, few years ago, in the
prime of life, is yet universally mourned.
Wherever suffering humanity called for
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life, Luzenburg was at hand to do honor
to his name, his calling and his adopted
country. In the lyceum and lecture
room, the halls of surgery, and the hos
pitfalls Of the INDECENT, he was equally at
home, and noted for those elements of
character that most adorned each. We
will apply few sentences to other names,
as Dr. M. T. Bonzano, the eminent chem
list, by all esteemed, by none envied, for
his learning and skill admired, and for
his kind and gentle nature, his goodness
and benevolence, universally approved.
Among monetary local institutions
the Germania Bank is an example of
thrifty management, approved integrity
and established success; and so. too, is
the Germania Insurance Company,
organized three or four years ago, and
already fairly established as permanent
institution of recognized stability and
growing influence. We would not ex-
tend these examples of ability and thrift
in favor of any other than one commend
ing itself to our notice through the
sympathy of professional fellowship. So
we cite the De,tsche Zietung and Jacob
Hassinger, its able proprietor, as a jour
nal and journalist to be read and COM
mended at all times, a rival we are proud
to try and keep up with in all the best
characteristics Of journalism, and whether
we fail or not, our esteem for our neighbor,
who does daily honor to the grand old
vernacular,, will not be lessened nor our
praise abridged.
But however agreeable our subject, We
are not to forget that newspaper is not
a spread, and that there is reasonable
limit to its space. Suffice it to say, that
our citizens Of German origin are among
the foremost Of our people in honor, in
dustly, and devotion to Republican prin-
ciples, notwithstanding the ungenerous
slurs Of papers in the interest Of the
bogus Democracy.
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