The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-06-13

sion Of the equally sacred rlBhl ol
others 10 entertain and enjoy contrary
Views,
Rising by slow degrees from u bar
barous condition In tho remote past
ihoy stand forth this day rs IN on
llghtenod thoroughly trained ana
practically scientific people They love
peace ana quiet, but they also love llh,
erly, and though slow TO anger WIN
shed their blood freely ana CALAMITY
In defence Of their rights aud liberties
Their national oohcslycness ~ slIonM
becnrse Of their ancestral experience
aud traditions, They cherish the mem
Org of their illusirlous warriors, states
men aud poets, aud this Is one of the
highest evidences Of genuine civilian
tIon--lor people who do not do 80
ARE unit TO wear the breas plates OF
lreemen.
They ARE not unmlndful Of the fact
that our modern English Language II
more than half derived from their own
that the great body of the American
people are descended from u com mon
ancestry with themselves, and hence
the term "Anglo-Saxon," or English
German; that IN all tho national aud
internal strlies Of Europe, for twelve
hundred years, their race, contrary to
ordinary experience, has never retro
graded, but steadily advanced, aud
that large portion Of the most useful
discoveries winch now bless mankind,
originated In German brains. These
are facts,
They are proudof having given TO the
world n Luther, n Melancthon, an
Ernstus, n Schiller, Frederick The
Great, aud II Humboldt, to say nothing
of the great mon of this generation In
their country--Leiber, Bismarck, Won
MoltlSo--nor Of their Mozart, Mendel
son and Strauss,
Their country being densoly crowded
In population, they seek an enlarged
; field In America In which to "multi
ply aud replensh the earth," They
bring with them their habits Of order
industry, frug0llty and their low
of liberty and Justice, Their onl,
r barrier to immediate fellowship
with Us is IN ignorance of our Ian
gu0go, AS that is acquired, and M
acquaintance with our customs, ant
the difference between an old and
new country, they constitute pillars o
the state ~ the best Of American citi
2ens.
Wherever they locate the land Il
made to flow with milkund honey; food
the stair of life, the vine, fruits an'
, flowers spring forth, where the briar an'
+ bramble previously held sway, The,
. obey and sustain the laws. Jenlou
, of their own natural rights, they ar
A scrupulous IN respecting the rights o
= others. They cultivate the customs O
( of the latherland In encouraging music
social reunions, innocent games ant
sports, gymnastic exercises and all TN
: means known TO them to develop tn
moral ns well rs the physical man
From the hot beds of an lntensiiie,
population, where necessity is to som
extent law, they differ in custom
with some of our old American habit
and views, but would be the last peopl
to force their views on others.
Their kindred aided gallantly ii
founding first American and then Tex
an independence and in the late civi
war, like the Irish, they were muinl,
faithful TO the sections in which the,
lived,
Then why should the youth of on
land tolerate any antipathy to such
people? DO we not want them to joi
us in the blessed labor of reducing tn,
savage haunts of Texas, from Red riv
or to the Rio Grande, to become tn
peaceful abode of happy families-c
civilization, christianity and abun
dance, ofsoioncc, music and refinement
of liberty and law ?
Let us, then, rise abovs the caption
spirit of clanish nationality, an,
from the highest pedestal of a gener
Gus civilization, welcome to our shore.
all who come from the old world t,
join us in the fuliilment of the grea
mission committed to our charge b,
the allwise and beneiicient Ruler o
the universe.
OF other nationalites we shalt speal
in another article.
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WE have before us the catalogue o
the present session--lS73-4-of Roam