The New York herald., 1875-08-16
ARMINIU
TcoNTNUED FROM THIRD PAGE.l

with Tacitus' description OF the dress OF German
females in his day and the appelaiion Is cohsueeu i
correct It undoubtedly represents German woman OF
inheritance and she was the only illustrous woman
whom Roman would care immoralize in marble for
Abe nurnose OF ornamenting trumphd arch for which
the statue appears TO have been Intended
ruE cHERusKAN CONFEDERATION.
ami, we have 10 return 70 Germany nberius had
very correctly Judged the German character for scarcely
n voar after Germancus had lelt Hermann and Marbod
were AZ war Drusus found almost the whole Of Ger
many divided into great parties, at the head Of one
ofwhich stood Hermann the head Of the other Mar
bod In the included nearly all the tribes Of
North Germany the other, the Kingdom OF the Mar
comann and nechboring States Hermann had actually
accomplished what has since his day the cherished
dream of German patriots Of all ages the union OF the
German tribes. The Saxon Coufederacy a real
5cdcrative union. Of FREQ States, which Ar
min although elected the head on the day Of
the Teutenburgor slaughter exercised no arbi-
trary authority, which was rather an influence
than power every State had in its government,
and the assemblies OF the people untouched by the
terms Of the unon-Marbod's government
arbitrary and despotic In the year A. D. II Ar
min, with the Chcruskans and other members Of the
German Confcderacy took up arms against Marbod,
who soon found himself deserted by most Of his allies
fhe two armies somewhere in the neighborhood Of
Zwickau and Chemnitz Armin addressed his soldiers
gnspring them to the conflict and pointing with to
She traltorous foe; while Marbod, his side,
equally jealous iname the passions Of his followers
Marbod was worsod and compelled TO retreat, and his
power dissolved as if by magic.
ARMIN's DEATH.
= We have but little to add except TO record the
Este Of the whose story have followed long
We read that the German princes became jealous of
A..
dered by his own kinsmen Tacitus gives us but few
particulars of this event 81 find says he "from the
writers and Senators Of those times that letters of
tain Adgandestrius, prince Of the Chatt read
fhe Senate, in which the writer promised to
undertake the death Of Arminius, provided a
suitable poison sent TO him from
Rome: To this it replied that the Roman
people accustomed to avenge themselves openly
by arms, not by treachery As for the
rest the Romans having departed out Of Germany and
Adarbod being driven from his kingdom, Arminus aimed
nj monarchy and lost the popular favor Having taken
mp arms he carried domestic war; with various for
tune and fell at last by the treachery Of his
Rons the thirty year Of his age and twelfth
OF his power" The story Of
HERMANN BEING POISONED
fs very improbable one the suggestion rather snacks
Of Rome than of Germany Tacitus mentions fact which
goes far 10 prove that Hermann died beloved by his
people Twenty years after his death the Cheruskans
sent embassy to Rome to obtain from Claudus the
favor that the of Flavus be their sovereign for
Ehe that he of the blood Of Armn Of which
none remained in Germany But the fact above mar
rated would appear prove that his memory was held
n good esteem by his people, and Tactus tells that
yet he is celebrated in the songs OF the bar
barians Cfac. Ann, IT,, Ss)
YOUNG
in
to the leadership of the confederacy of the
tribes His death is supposed to have taken place in
the year Of our Lord twenyone Tactus thus measures
his life and labor:"He unquesonably the delverer
Of Germany. He measured himself with the might of
Rome, not like other captains in the period OF its in
liant weakness but in the pride Of its power and though
not always victorious, yet he never conquered
''His work done" says the historian Smith; his
country was delivered; its freedom from foreign
thraldom forever established"
''The name Of Hermann" says our historian, 'rhas
pierced the darkness Of almost twenty centuries and
still shines the night of TINA He stands alone
Nike else in history, for no one in Grecian or
Roman times has extorted he has done from unwl-
ing and supercous foes the need of such dsnterested
and glorious praise"
THE IRNuNsuI.
He died young but not too soon; but his memory
Gyed many hundreds Of years among the pagan Ger
mans When Charlemagne bore the banner Of the
Church amid the Saxons he learned that in the depths
Of the forest Of osnng there existed idol or pillar
called the Irminsdl, in honor Of some god or hero
Irmin Aruln or Erman, who held in deep vencra-
tion by the pagan saxons This he determined to do
Btroy, thinking thus to do acceptable service to
religion Let me quote again Smiths interesting ac-
count:-
"a six hours march through the forest brought the
hp will
the Irminsdl concealed In the centre Of grove OF
enormous oaks and beeches they found a shapeless
figure Of wood, black with time, which perhaps in its
original rudeness had borne little resemblance TO the
human form 1t the statue which hundreds of years
before had been raised by the German peoples TO the
honor Of their hero Arnn. It was here on the scene
of his glory that they assembled on festivals to feast
and sacrifice; here that Armn was celebrated in the
songs Of barbaroqs nations
''It had happened with Armn as with the Grecan
Hercules and the
scASDISAvIAN oDIx
ideas Of sancty had been gradually engrafted upon
tradtions of herosm song and fable had in the lapse
OF ages conounded the distinctions Of truth and fiction
all the historical lost NEUROLOGICAL hero and
Armin Uas regarded divinity Celestial attributes
were not. wanting to his glory The Irmln wagon was
watched in the heavens by his worshppers with silent
awe as 1t wheeled around in eternal course The
Arminstrosse was, in their eyes, the symbol Of the
brightness Of his earthly path The Saxon Reoken
swore by Irrln God"
The year when
cHARlE;iAGNE STOOD BEFORE THE uRxrysuL
CHANGED TO be ore Of excessive drought Tho country
was parchcd, tho 800 springs Of the water tecroiny
country about PaGerborn dried up; but after the
ids had been reduced to ashes the sacred grove
fellcd tho soldiers discovered bourn Of bright
water bubbll9g down the hollow Of the hill
The Franks thought it miracle, a manifest
testimony that the hand Of the Lord was
with them Seven hundred and forty two years later
ahe Grsi FIVE books Of Tactus annals were discovered
by Angelo Arcomb0'do the library Of the Abbey OF
Corbei princely monastery on the weser now a
princey residence Thus in the very heart Of the an
cent Cheruskan Land The written history OF Hermann