The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-09-06

Know Nothing partyH
By your attacks and Intolerance you
are doing all you can 10 enkindle and
build up IN Rnu.GeFman paftyyin this
| city, and II you can command anything
like large following, l have no doubt
you will do all you can TO Germanize uS
and then oatracise us jeditpriallyrit you
can, iorcibly II you must. Your pen and
your manner 10 persona who refused to
sign your petition leadl me 10 form this
estimate Of your mental and moral make
up. 7laEl 30 aE3N54llfH TEky
In your article Of the 18th ult. you
speak Of the Board as "foi1ting upon The
public a sWindle, 4 bugbear, Ridiculous
nesa and nonsense" "mutilated append.
age and "iArce.p ,VClTkbC
o. eourse thisI in your judgment, 10 de.
grading the Tres schools.
IL your editorial Of The 25th ult.,
while tacitly admitting yourself to be
an enemy Of "iEee schools, free thought,
Tree speech DC, you declare yourself
an enemy Of degraded free schools"
Let the English speaking and fair
minded Recommendations OF this city know
and remember that you have dubbed our
schools as 'degtaded free schools" and
are so far their enemy that you would
deny our chudren m English education
ublesS you cab force into those sclrools a
System OF German instruction which Is a
failure in German and exceedingly hurt
ful to the Enslish; so thai ID any aspect
YOU are, 40 enemy 10 our schools, TO de.
StEoy which you would slif up the pas.
.siOns Of the Germans as'a class, and teach
them 10 bold eyeryman "notoriously bad
and scandalous, deteslable and despisa.
BILE" who opposes you in your war oh the
degraded free schools" Of the city Of
Wheeling. hNlat"5h ~ F7'H
Ali sir you are striking a blow at an
institution 10 our midst that lies close to
our hearts, and OF which We had become
proud before We had the pleasure 81
knowing that you lived and moved and
had being.S hsrH'J'EEL
This brings me 10 your allusioa in your
editorial OF the 18th ult, 10 u private in
teryiew between you and myself, in which
smother phase Of your true inWardness Il
disclosed. =. -,
Before the final action Of the Board.
you came TO my office to persuade me 10
your views. gave you poliie.and pro.
tracted hearing. was investigating the
matter-seeking light from every quar-.
ter, and, as a member Of a committee, try.
Ing tohold my mind open to honest con
viction and the legitimate influence Of
every fact and fair argument-and 90
told you. /
In answering, or failing to answer my
questions, Ithen understood you % vif.
tually admitting that little practical
German had been taught and that there
was no need for q German Superinteud-
ent; but that II was n good thing to keen
up the German system in order to popu-.
larize the schools amongst the Germans
by giving them this German feature, DC.
AZ l had higher estimate than that
OF the mass Of Germans, and was under
an oath Of Office, and was NOT in The
popularity business just then I did mot
see much force in such argument.
During the interview you gave prom.
inence 10 the fact that John c. Miller
was GU u Roman Catholic, and urged
that a. such be, aschairman OF the Ger.
man Committee, was aiming u blow ut
the public schools, acting under the di.
rection OF the Bishop and priests, and
was trying TO make the German Protest.
ants the enemies Of the schools. | told
you then that that was matter to which
my attention had been called BY yonr
friends on and off the committee, and that
l was considering Mr.. Miller's position
with due caution; that too had inherited
prejudices sgainst the Roman Catholic
Church and understood it as dIsfavoring
our public schools but that az ! had
grown older and wiser l tried not to al.
low my prejudices to lead me to refuse to
act with man (simply because he is u
Catholic whose argument and position
commended themselves 10 my reason and
judgment.
1t was IN this connection, and no other,
that assured you personal y on my side
that / deaired TO b faithful and eGrned 10 giire
The preference 10 my better eonrieioHs orer in.
hcrited prejudice" and ! publicly stood by
that private assurance 10 you, as true
and manly doctrine.
The above quotation Excepting n
change Of pronouns) is taken from your
German editorial OF the 25th, as words
uttered by me TO you; but il You mean to
impress your German readers that thus
admitted TO you that had "inherited
prejudice" against the Germans, it is a
wicked and ineIcusabIe distortion, for |
inherited German blood from my mater.
nal ancestors. II you think well Of your.
self for thus bringing private interview
before the public, make the most Of it.
You are now found publicly appealing
to the prejudices Of your Catholic and
Protestant readers as Germans, TO "markn
and "kick" me because / did not yield to
your private appeals 10 my religious pref.
udices. ..aH. I-
You tell your German readers that our
schools are degraded and try to get them
to make against those schools the very
war which you regarded 80 sadly repre-
hensible in the Catholics.
-Allihis in Wheeling, U. S.A., in the
Light OF the civil and religious liberty OF
the afternoon OF the 10Th century, when
iuNCAlIHCuIo anu LOleIdHCc buOuIu ulhpel
the gospel Of prejudice and hate.
Ia it asplrit Of infinite jest that posses.
ses you, my dear sir, or is Il true Of eve
ry community that
1.-THE little flsas MICS
Have lesser heas
Upon their lacks
To bite 'cm;
. The lesser heaS
I.H Have other ieas-
Aud 80 al
u Ga rIHGaiiH@f' u --.Efs-
You are the funniest or sadiest i'm.
pOrtAtiOn Of incongruities and con-
Predictions I have ever met, and
II henceforlh you can secure a
numerous following in the business Of
marking" kicking and hating respect.
able citizens, it will be because your fol.
lowers are demagogues, or love the Ger.
man idiom more than they love English
education, American citizenship, Amerl-
can liberty and that American nationali-
~ which they come here to enjoy and
have sworn TO support, protect and de-
iend.
There ought to be 4 time in this coun.
try when people will make their demands,
not Us Germans, French, Irish or Ital.
ians, but as Americans; and | can i'm.
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