Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1878-04-19
The Germans Of Western Texas
Their Sentiments grossly misrepresented.

| Their Sentiments grossly misrepresented.
One Of our Contemporaries in this
city has made several attempts lately
| to traduce the character of the organ OF
the German population of this country;
knowing full we'll that the "Free
Presse'' represents the sentiments OF
the Germans of Western Texas, it, real
object being to cast fling at the Ger
man population rather than at their
paper. When the Gentlemen, who
compose the Personal Of said paper,
assaied the Editor of the Freie Presse
in their mean and contemplate manner,
and when they sarcastically agreed tc
leave the decision concerning the truth
fulness of the Freie Presse to the public,
they did not take in consideration that
| the Editor of the Freie Presse was
known to the people of Western Texas
for the last thirty years, that his repus
taton for honesty of purpose and con-
sistency was established, when several
of the proprietors of SAID paper fed on
milk solely, and that his principles OF
to-day We're those Of 80 years ago, when
he promulgated and defended them
with peril of his life,
1t was the Herald of this City then,
! which came to the rescue OF the Ger.
mans and Of the writer of this expressly;
willie an other paper, the Western
Texan, occupied about the same posi-.
ton, our contemporary does at the pre-
sent time. Whatever course the He
raid may have pursued since that time,
We shall never forget what it did about
25 years ago. 1t may be Of no little
! interest to a great portion of the old
citizens of San Antonio, to be reminded
Of old times and the early history of the
Germans of Western Texas by the re.
printing of an Article which appeared
| editorially in the San Antonio Herald
of May "a. 1856, under the above cap.
ton, and reade as follows:
| We call the particular attention of every
candid unrrejudiced man in Western Tex
as to the following gross attempt to misre-
present the German sentiment in regard to
slavery, and palm off a base deception upon
| the distant public:
| The Western Germans. = In no part of the
| South has the recent contest with Know
| Nothingism, more fully determined the
character of the foreign population in favor
of slavery, than the Germans Of Western
| Texas. A few mad caps and wild theorist
among them had performed acts, and enac-
| ted scenes which were greedily caught hold
of by Know-Nothings to stamp the German
population with the charge of being aboli-
tionists. We have always asserted that it
was slander upon their name. But the
events Of the past contest, called out the
German population and they avowed their
Southern feelings and opinions, advocated
the institution OF avery, and finally put
down the free-soil paper at San Antonio,
called the Zeitung, and estah ished in it's
place, sound and orthodox democratic
sheet with the whole democratic ticket as
its mast head.
The Germans of Western Texas have vim
dicatep their character from the reproaches
of Xnow-Nothings, and when our railroads
enables them to cultivate the sol on q lar
ger scale than at present, they will all be
owners of slaves, They have cut loose from
Siemering and his little band of Missionaries.
and purged themselves of all that sort of
|
dence of any considerable portion of West
ern Germans, and can never again place
them in the ohnoxio ious position which his
acts haye so injustly called down upon his
Ountrymen, simply because he being man
of talent and prolific writer, it was false
ly assumed by the Know-Nothings that he
was the leader of the rest of his country
men.--St1fc Gazette.
We do not know who tho Gazette terms
"mad-caps and wild theorists" who "per
formed acts and enacted SCENES" which
were "caught hold of to stamp the whole
German population with the charge of be-
ing abolitionists,n unless if is those who
held the ConventiQl 10 this city in MAY,
1854, and their platform. If we are correct
in our inference, then we can inform the
Gazette, that it is striking some of its most
ardent political friends in a very tender
point. For some of the loudest PROCESSING
democrats ROr, were in favor Of that Conven
tion and its platform, until they found both
were popular. And more than that
we can inform that very showing iourna
that The editor Of The sound and ORTHODOX de-
, Bloorqtic shee: tgured i'll that May Conven
ti0n, and only Withdrew from it, because
resolution offered by him on the subject o
slavery was not adoptedt, p0ieas Uoteas
The Gasetts having "a ways asserted tla
| ~ W 90 - D 'h'Oi tP'f WHO htilC ~ CIdiS'
the Germans with heing oppos d to slave
ry, does not make it true. Their own de
eIaratioHs are more re liable than the asser
tions of an INSCRIPTIONS, partizan Journal
, which acts upon the principle that every
, thing is fair in politics.
The sthe events of the past contest calle'
out of the German population, and tha
they avowed their southern feelings and
opinions, advocated the institution of sla
very, and finally put down the free sol
s paper at San Antonio, called the Zeitung
and established in its place, a sound, ortho
y dox democratic sheet" is a gratuitous asser