The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-10-07
GER MAN DAY.
The Objects and Purposes of the
Anniversary Fully Set Forth
Its Observance To-
Morrow.

As hes been heretofore stated in
these columns, our German fellow
citizens are about To- celebrate the 9th
day of OciOHer "a tha anniversary o.
IA historical event of srch magnitude
thai il Is. without question, entitled TO
be recalled To the morv of our
present Genera ION, and mora particu-
larry to The careful AMI intelligent
student of The history of his native
country. The p;oneers and path
tiudrrs who first ught the American
continent To escape the oppression of
the oil WI ~.,I VIII, endured sU
the priva'iOns ard hardshIps ImIi 1t
to the early settlement Of the virgin
>oil Of a new and comparatively un-
known country, amor 6 the hostile
race Of savages, will always BE- regard
ed by those for whom they paved the
way and who a:e now in the eniov-
ment of the fruits of the labors of
t"O>e pioneers of civilization with the
veneraIi II and gratitude due their
services.
1t is to be regretted that the writ
ten hi-tory of the country is SO abs
lu'ely deficient in the narration of the
events Of those days, bearing upon The
early sc H. ment of what are now
krown as the Eastern and New Eng
land States, and our researches in
that dir, ction are often confronted
with harrenness snIy equa'ed by the
vast unexplOred interior of the d ,rk
continent. However. in later years,
the ever industrious historians of
America have not been idle. Histor-
icsl societies of Baltimore and Phila-
delphla have undo. take the difficult
but not ungra'rful tasA of supple
mentiug the Deficiencies of Americas
written history toy u researches
in officia an family r, cords, gathered
rrlncira lv in 10 "A tits waich We're in
those days the real seat of war.
The inform III thus gathered re
garirng Ihe early emigration from
Germany, an. their stt lem. mt in tie
Mohawk va lev, in Pennsylvania in
the state OF New YORK, Maryland, In
The Shenandoah valley, etc, has heen
comp ia most interesting book of
graf value FIR iu'ure hist rians by
Profess + Oswald S-il,ns ECKER, of
Philade phia. Others have worked
with m,Ge or less succ. - upon The
same subject ami have thus furnished
many hlsioIi al fac,s MT heretofore
generally known.
Though the 'aniing of a colony of
some torty odd GrruanS under the
leadership of their intellectual AL
vi,er, Pa>toriu-, in Ghn year 1858,
;ook plac. a number Of years a'trr
The advent OF a similar colony in o
the Pamet o state, vet as all event
which lr!t Us iudelible imprin, upon
the future p Puiation o this country,
tie Past RUS .lrny st.nds foremost,
iaving founded Germantown, in
Pennsvivan'a, established various in
dus,rles IT, wn:ch their skill and *
perience in the OLD country would
natural V lrrd th,m. They we've
frugal, temperate and industrious
lit band, but, a TIL sequel shows,
extremely >ucc, ssfui i'll their new
homes. Their numbers increases,
rapidly, friends and relatives of The
old Falherlaud hearing of their sue
cess followed, and so numerous and
infiuenii,l wss the German speaking
pOpu;ati "f Penr sylvani, at about
the reri d OF he war Tor American
independence, that 4 bill introduced
IN the Legislature of that s.a'e making
German The legal language Of Penn
sylvsniA Was defeated by but one
Vote.
Thus these sturdy pioneers, the
founders of Germantown, were but
the entering weise, 50 called, for a
streIm of emigrants tina has 10: yet
ceased to flow from the land IF the
oppressed, Il "th- land of the free
anl the home OF the braves" Hrv-
Ing suffered under Oppressive laws
of the Odd cuuLtrv. thy ought Ia and
uDqu-sti nahiy DO appreciate the
blessings # a free government AMI
civil a. d re-. i"us liberty. rnis they
have anund1nt.y sh. WI in the war
for American Independence ami again
in tle late re ,ellion. IhrJgh cling.
Ing t. their mother tongue with
tenacity that illustrates their sincere
devotion To / at which - not exc.lled
i'll other n tiJLa ,ty az couurry-the
educational system aud the classic
literature at Their m rther COuut'y-
they aIe neVerthe e.. IN everything
e seltial thoroughly American.
The &c l. ,n-Am -rIcan l. nst!y
proud of h.. h,.foes IN rte war tr' in-
d penarc. -uch ~ G.nerals Sleu-
b ID. De k..p Miur. icuherr, III. rk-