The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-06-14
NATION pMEJTDICEs GLI.-FOl MD
lD- gONNItnED.

Irish aud tho German people, we ne&l
proceed 10 offer some remarks 10 the
youth Of our country IN regard to ile
people of Othor nations, We may re-
affirm our deep conviction that con-
lractod national antiquities aro un-
worthy of great and large-hearted
people, as we Americans claim TO be-
We shall elevate our position when
ever We look abroad over the nations
aud survey their characters from n
standpoint above the mental horizon
OF the dark ages and the superstillous
days Of incantation and wllchcrult, By
so doing, our vision will be expanded
and our hearts prepared to appreciate
virtue and the nobler passions IN oll-
ers, however their external adorn'
ments may differ from ours,
Perhaps less than against any other
non-EngIish speaking people, DO our
prcjudlces exist towards cmigrants
from Switzerland, They win u hold
on us in our childhood, aud naturally
80 ~ citizens Of the oldest republic IN
the world (oXceptlng only the little
free spot of San Marno).
An American boy of fifteen, with
ordinary Intelligence, would stand self
convicted Of Ignorance If he hnrb0red
an ungracious sentiment towards the
countrymen Of William Tell, the peer
loss hero of Alpine tradition, whose
memory is sweet wherever liberty has
an abiding place. IL Is needless to
combat n prejudice which does not
exist. The sons of the land Of Tell and
OF Xwinglc encounter no antipathy IN
our country. They are always hailed
with n partially mbibed in our ear
lest school boy days.
But how about the French, the viva
clous and merry descendNnlsof the an
Client Franks and GOuls, in the land
made famous by Charlcmagne, and
Joan of Are, and renowned 10y the
grandeur of "le grande m0narque,p
Louis XIV? True, they are not to
any considerable extent, found scatter
ed, like the Irish and Germans, among
our agricultural populations but In the
seaport cities, in the ancient settle
ments of Louisiana, Missouri and about
Mobile and elsewhere, under the cOgno-
men ofCreoles, theyarc numerous. DIFF
fering widely from the Germans and
Irish, their merits and their virtues
are peculiar. Their early career on
this continent and their tact and sue
cessful kindness In Intercourse with
the wild Indian tribes, stamp them Ms,
in such matters, better pioneers than
the stern and less polite English For
centuries their gallantry and chivalry
have been conceded by all Intelligent
people. They are recognized whether
justly or not, we will not say, as the
polltegt nation Of Europe. Though Of
ten volatile and ilcltlc, they will resist
bayonets aud charge battlements in
defence OF mn idea. Track them from
the first appearance of Bonaparte in
! 1874, to his final eclipse in 1915, in Italy,
at Austerlit1, Lodi, Wagram, Leipsie,
on the sandy plains Of Egypt, through
the SHOWS of Russia, see them in the
baptism of fire under Mcdonald under
Vienna's spires, under Noy, at the
Borodino, everywhere under the eye of
their great emperor, till his sun went
down in blood at Waterloo, and who
can embosom n national prejudice
against such u people"
But IL is only necessary for an Amer
lean boy to traverse the history of La
fayette,. Rocham beau and their follow
ers, to Danish all petty feelings against
them. Our steadGast and earliest friend
in the struggle for American indie
pendenoe, the ties Of national friend
ship then formed have never been sun
dered and but once or twice momenta-
rily disturbed. AS one of the most re-
fined, elegant, scientific and learned of
nations, its sons usually find II warm
welcome as American citizens, and
hence we have nothing to combat in
the line of suggestions embraced in
these hasty reflections.
Ofthe Spanish and Hungarian peo-
pie it is needless to speak, as but few
of them reach our shores to become
citizens.
And as to the Danes, Swedes and
Norwegians, most that we have said
Of the Germans will apply to them.
The glories of Charles MI. and Gus
tavus Adolphus are well known to our
youth. They make excellent citizens,
and should be ever welcomed to our
good hermitage.
70 conclude, we are brought to speak
of u race the most remarkable, the
longest prosecuted, and lin some sense)
the least understood the world has ever
seen-the chosen but dispersed people
Of God-the Jews. Goiwhere we may,
to every city, village and hamlet, in
this broad land, we meet them and
from infancy to old age, we are accus-
toned to hear them mentioned by in-
eonsiderate epithets ofreproach. Omit
ting illusions to their inspired history,
their trials, captivities, victories and
glories, for nearly nineteen hundred
Years they have emphatically been a
nation without a country; dispersed
rom the center to the circumference of
the earth, prosecuted, plundered, ex-
lied, tortured, often denied the rights |