Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-24

tuIIy reallze their condIJion as wen as
their opportunities. They must culti-
vate habits of steady industry and
raise their children to gUOrk.
Such wise, hopeful words as these,
from one of the most distinguished
among them, should be worth a thou
sand fold more than their weight in
gold, not alone to the men of South
Carolina, but Of every State this side
of what was once known as Mason &
Dxon's Line.
THE DEUTSCHER VEREIN IN ANT
WERP.
Correspondence of the Union and American.
ANTWERP, July 5, 1S75.-With US
Americans the word Hcolony" naturally
connects its alf with other words such as
Plymouth and Jamestown, or perhaps it
leads our thoughts to some lone island in
the South Sea where we picture the hardy
settlers combating alternately the savage
elements and the equally savage cannibals,
with hands and heads alike adept in the
use of the spade and TIE rife; but there is
| 4 second and more modern meaning given
to this word, which designates the foreign
part of the population of European city.
Americans, who have left their country in
pursuit either of business or pleasure, form
a great number of the coterles which are
commonly known as colonies. 1t is only
/ Of late years that our telloW-countrymen
have taken to this exile kind of life. For
merly they came in small numbers and re-
manned but short time; now, the Ameri-
can resident is looked upon as one of the
regular constituents of population in
foreign cities. A long dissertation
might be written to prove that this
change in the habits of the citizens of the
United States is due to such and such
causes, but my object is to describe facts,
not to invent theories.
The Germans are the greatest colonists
in the world and have decidedly got the
start of the Americans in the business, for
there are almost as many of them outside
Of the Empire as within it. Go where you
will, in Asia, Africa, America or Polynesia,
and you will always find the TeutOn.
Where he settles he establishes an imita-
ton Deutschland, and there we find him
surrounded bymementoes and customs ofthe
Fatherland, never losing his identity, never
forgetting his birthplace nor his kindred.
| The Germans have established throughout
the world a system of empires within en-
pires to such an extent that they can boast
in imitation Of certain powerful people
that the sun never sets uOon Germany.
They do not, and desire not, to allude to
''the morning roll Of the drum" but to the
peaceful, law-abiding and industrious peO-
pie, calling themselves sons of Germany,
who greet the glorious luminary from all
quarters of the globe, and at all hours in
the twenty-four.
One of these German colonies is the sub
ject Of this present article, a colony which
is type Of many Others far away from
Antwerp and in another country than Bel
GUM. 1t is not a large colony, but the
members Of it, by uniting, obtain many
advantages and pleasures which otherwise
would be denied them. Industrious and
far-sighted merchants, they, as a rule,
are gathering plentiful reward, and Ant
werp's prosperity is largely due to their
presence here; but though business is the
order Of the day, yet the pleasures of life
are by no means forgotten. The Germans
have made a nest for themselves here of
which they may well be proud, said nest
being 4 handsome, well-furnished club
house, or Verein, fronting on one Of the
| chief avenues Of the city, where they IS
semble together, be it for beer, be it for
! cards, dinners or for concerts. BY clubbing
they get the comforts of life very cheaply,
with the additional satisfaction of knowing
that they own the whole meHGge. The
club house is correctly arranged to serve
the purposes for which it is intended, viz:
q nice, cosy and convenient place which the
| German can call his home, place where
he can meet his friends and enjoy himself
as if he were in Germany. Upon the
first floor is a large hall, which
can be easily converted into a concert room
or a miniature theater. Here the honor
able members quaff their Bayarian beer, or
masticate the delicious leberglTSt: here
they hold their kneipercien, play their
dOminOs, make theiE Joke and laugh their
laugh. On the secon 4 OF We find a com
mOdious dining room, and, adjoining it, a
nicely appointed reading room, where may
be found all the chief papers in the three
languages. Then there is a billiard room,
= convenient nine-pin alley and gymna-
stun; so, on the whole, they are as COM
fortably provided for as the most exacting
cOuld desire. Like Hans Breitmann, give
peen drahellin' about like efery dings," but
I never met with anything as pleasant as
the club house; the beer is as nectar, while
the best cook in Antwerp presides in the
cuisine. The way the hungry clubmen
destroy the productions of this cook would
satisfy even the heart Of that patron saint of
Uncle TOMS Cabin, old Aunt Chloe, herself
Of course during the late religious dis
turbances there has been considerable i'll
will manifested against the Germans, both
here and in other cities of Belgium, and
ON this account it was iokingly proposed
that the Verein be converted into fortress
and that Won Moltke be sent for in haste
TO superintend the defense. Certainly
there was no necessity for alarm, though
one would think from the terrible articles
appearing day after day in the Belgian,
French and English newspapers, that the
long expected and horrible day, which was
to usher in the religious war, had come.
As far as l can discover, there is no war on
the t0pis, and even the little demOnstra-
ton here in the Antwerp streets has been
greatly exaggerated for the sake of political
effect. The QUARREL need scarcely state
is between the Catholics and the Liberals.
the latter name being equivalent to Free
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