New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-11-08
They are Painted as Uncivilized House
Destroyers; as Taunting Church Haters.
Old Lies Revived that Were Born Only IN
the Forked Tongues of Hatred.
"A Case of Meanness, Falsehood and lngrat-
itude that is without Parallel in
New Ulm's History.
Old Settlers, Those Who Established The
Town, Told j hat They must Leave
the City.
viii They Do it? Is The Brotherhood Of
80 Years to Be Destroyed bY Unkind
Newcomers.

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1t is hard to believe that in the heart
of any human being, who processes to
stand enrobedin all the virtues that man.
kind enjoy, there can lurk a malicious
desire to lie and distort the truth; that
in such man there can be any Of the
brute quality that forgets good deed
Or a kind act when it is performed; but
we are compelled to believe that there
are such men-or unprincipled hypocrites
rather who have no sense Of fairness
and that we have some of them right
here in our midst.
Never was there a town, we believe,
wherein the people lived in such perfect
harmony as did the settlers of New Ulm
in the early years. The hardships of the
climate and the terrors Of the country
bound them together in absolute unity.
They were not all of the same religious
belief. but that mattered little. They
mingled together as friends, and when
dangers threatened they stood side by
side in each others behalf. In those days
no one ever dreamt that scound-
rels in after years would come in
upon them like serpents and seek
to create discord by maligning
those who were once happy neighbors.
But such malicious cancers did appear.
New Ulm was assailed on all sides. The
good old people, who ventured forth
from the effete east to seek new homes
and liberty, were scorned and sneered at.
Cowards from a distance, who did not
have the courage to visit the town, coin
ed stories that were as false as hatred
could make them. Our own people at
that time, to a man, resented them. They
knew them to be fabricatious without the
slightest foundation, in fact, and origin
at1ng only in spite and bigotry. With
true pride, therefor, for each other as
neighbors they proved them false and
lived them down. One by one the SLAM
dcrs were buried in forgetfulness, By
the search-light of truth, they were driv-
en- from the public view where they had
so long been masquerading, and only in
the visions of cranks were they OCCASION
ally resurrected. The people of New
Ulm continued to live in peace. They
cherished their friendly associations as
the pride of the town and gave literally
to one another's cause, believing re-
ciprocal action to be for the
common good. The men who had sought
to bring shame upon the city were re-
mem5ered by all only as towards and
enemies to the city.
But to-day the cancer appears in a
different portion. Serpents have again
been at work, breathing slander into the
people against themselves, and in a local
newspaper, the German organ Of the men
who have kicked up all our recent
wrangles to satisfy a personal end, there
appears charge against the old settlers
of New Ulm that is as black as any you
will find in criminal warrant. Why
Just think of it, old men, you who were
here before the massacre and who defend
ed your homes and the homes of your
neighbors, whether churchmen or not,
against the blood thirsty savages, you
are accused in this charge of having been
lawless and disorderly; you are charged
with having used powder and ballsIto
frighten people into your way of think
ing; with having chased men out of town
who would not believe as you did; and
with having threatened destruction Of
homes to propagate your beliefs! And
we are even told that you corrupted
many a brave son into forgetting
the pious warnings of his mother
and the noble lectures of his father,
rather than flee from the dangers that
wereat hand, What an awful lot Of
people you must have been, if such
stories are to be believed! But thanks