Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-19
General Garfield Addresses a German
 Deputafion.

Deputation.
 CLEVELAND, Oct 1S-The Germans of this city and vicinity, to the number of five hun dred, went to Mentor to-day on special train, and called on General Garfield. Major William Kaufman, of Cleveland, and O. R. Leiger made addresses in German, and in presenting the crowd present stated that the Germans almost as unit would be for Gar field The General responded as follows:
 Mir. Kaufman and gentlemen: I am very glad to see you here, and to receive your words of welcome and those earnest words of patriotism which your chairman has spo- ken I have caught some of the inspiration of his thought, though not all, but enough of it to make me know the heartiness of your greeting and to be able to thank you for 1t from a full and cordial heart Applause You have an advantage over us in one thing at least: YOU came here with all the precious memory of old fatherland, but you have come he1e to share with us the glories and hopes of the new world, which is i'm mediate fatherland. (Aprlause.) Your chair man has been pleased to refer to remark once made when speaking of the death of an eminent German member of Congress, that 1t was a mistake in one sense to call him foreigner because, as I said, all the English speaking people, especially the Eng fish people from where we came, drew their old traditions from and found their first fatherland in the forests of Germany And it was so when two thousand years ago a body of travellers and bold pioneers crossed the German ocean to aid in struggle on the Island of Britain. When the ruddy and strong and yellow haired, blue-eyed Saxons came they planted the principles of Teutonic liberty in England, and an old writer of cen turies ago said that the constitution of Great Britain came from the words of Germany. (Applause.) Our branch of the family is the branch of the order, | brethren. You have come later to join us, 1 the younger sons of modern Germany to | meet your older brethren in this new world | (Applause) Not because you do not love the fatherland, but because you love the 1 large liberties and the larger opportunities | and greater aspirations that this new contl-
 nent has opened up to us all. Applause. | Not many generations ago all our fathers
 were foreigners, from the Teutonic races, | from the Latin races, from all the races of 1 Europe. The best clements came, and, ming | ling here, like any other alley of metals, 1t l makes a stronger result than any one of the parts alone. (Applause) We are all better
 for the mixture Daughter. Your chair man has quotee line from your great poet 1 Herder, in which he said that to go into 6 | foreign land there could be no worse thing | than to be a German. Much as I respect l your poet, think he slandered the foreign I world It may have been true of other
 countries of Europe; it was never true oi
 the continent of America If ever it was
 true some twenty-five years ago, it has ceased
 long ago to have any truth in our modern
 America. After further appropriate allusionf I to the Germans as people, and Genera Garfield quoted from the German poet Nova lis, and in conclusion said Such is the wei
 come that America gives to all people.
 thank you for this call to-day, fellow citizens 1 I thank you for your kindness of expression
 and conclude by saying 'sWellcomen ale. (GreAt applause).
 i After the General had concluded there wal
 a long period of handshaking, and Congress men Butterworth and Mckinley, jr. ,who wer, present, made brief speeches Tomorrow
 number of business men of Indianapolis, ac
 companied by Governor-elect Porter, vii
 pay their respects to Garfield.