The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-12-03
THE GERMANS
conlInnsa from sseona Paae.

Gus parts OF TINS lecture.
To a great extent Il has been the Ger.
mans own fault that he has not been
better understood and more highly APP
preclated In America, The records OF
his work have been kent In the German
language and published in the German
paper, pamphlet or book, and 80 failed
10 reach the English eye and ear, We
aim more 10 show what Germans have
done In and for this great America; for
they are playing and have played most
important part In Americas history.
GERMANS IN AMERICA.
Where does the record begin OF the
Germans In America? A scholarly le-
gal friend claims that the names OF some
OF the settlers at jamestown, Va, arc
distinctly Germanic, and supposes they
We're German mechanics who came over
with the English There were, no doubt,
Germans among the Hollanders who
people New York in 1921, In the Varl-
Gus long lists OF names kept by the ship
ping parties of the.yeara 1657-G4, there
were many pure German names Thus
the Germans, little by little, few here
and few there, prepared the way for
their coming colonies, and were the fore
runners Of the mighty migration which
has not yet ceased
The historical date accepted by Ger
mans as a special day, Is October g. 1858,
or 2i4 years ago. when the good ship
Concord landed In Philadelphia, bring
ing colony of thirteen German fami-
lies, for from that time the Germans
haye come tn colonies In crowds, by the
ship load and steamer full, In the lasu
seventy-siN years Germany has sent to
the United States 4,97a, 423 Of her people.
II Is estimated by those who have
studied statistics that the Germans and
the German descendants In this country
easily aggregate the enormous number
of20,0G0, 600
Many Germans have changed their
names. SchwarZ has become Block, Mr.
Schneider Is Mr. Taylor. Mr.. Welsskopf
Is Whitehead, Mr.. Zimmerman has
changed 10 Carpenter, Mueller is now
Miller. and thus tens of thousands o.
people are supposed TO be English or
Scotch who are German In their origin
as German can be.
In 17l0 thousands OF the Palatinates
came to America. The Swiss Germans
formed settlement at New Berne, N.
C., In 17l0, In 1909 Lancaster county.
Pennsylvania, was settled by them.
Governor Thomas, Of Pennsylvania. es-
timated In l741 that three-hfteenths of
then began the mighty movements
westward over the mountains TO Pitts
burgh, Wheeling, Ohio, etc. and the
n1igrations into Maryland Virginia, the
Carolinns and Tennessee.
No white settlerH did more for the In
dams to make them friendly and Chris
tian than did those German Christians,
and on the other hand, no pioneers suf-
fered more at the bloody hands of the
red skins, or moro sklllfully opposed
them than the peace-lovlng, vet brave
Germans. All America had no better,
more scholarly or popular or in1uen-
tiai Indian interpreter than was Con-
rad Welser, concerning whom an In
dian chief remarked: Him heart half
pale face, half Indian"
There was no greater. more dreaded.
more skilful Indian fighter than our
own Lewis Wetzel, the wild ranger Of
this beautiful Ohio Valley whose feet
tFod these Wheeling hills. and whose
rifle shot these valleys so often re-
echoed from Parkersbucg to Pittsburgh
and from West Liberty to GAINESVILLE.
1t Is said his father was an 'up-coun
try Dutchman" who came 10 this re-
gion In 1864. What daring Louis Wetzei
and his brother Martin was to this sec
ton. John Hartmann, . the unerrlng
marksman was to the New York set
tiers, an Angel OF Protection" lie was
dreaded more by the Indians than a
company OF soldiers. All felt safe
when he was about.
John Lederer, moved through the
vast wilderness OF Virginia, North Car
DINA. South Carolina and Georgia In
1870 aad made the first map of those Sc
glons. Before Elliott gave the Indians
the Bible In their own language Com
panlus had translated a German cate
chism for the Delaware Indians,
The sufferlngs OF the Germans was In
expressblv great. Let us recall the
bloody massacre OF the German Flats"
In New York. where the fort was at
tackled by night and forty were MUIR
dered and scalped. women had their
noses cut off and were otherwise in
suited and injured. every house OF the
entire settlement burned TO the ground,
their horses aud cattle and sheep con-
fiscated. and thus left homeless house
less helpless and frlendless This was
November II. 1856 April 3O 1858. Mt 4
O'Clock in the afternoon another attack
was made and thirty more killed Later
still when IS were offered as prize for
every scalp many German house
father came home in the evening to iind
his whole family murdered and scalped.
Al the close ofIthese butCherles and so
called wars. there were five hundred
widows and three orphans In the war
SCARED burned and desOlated regions
OF the Mohawk Valley, and similar
facts come to VS. from the wyoming.
and the most OF these were Germans.
From the Susduehanna to the Della
ware was a field Of murder In 1865, six
hundred Germans marched 10 Phlladel-
phia. asking the governor for protec-
ton.
GERMANS IN BATTLE,
Who hasnoE read the thrilling account
Of the battle OF Oriskang, N Y, where
General Herkimer and the four German
colonies, commanding the four batthl-
ions so completely defeated the Seneca
Indiana and their white allies.
BrayeIy as they had fought the IN
dians. 40 bravely did hundreds and
thousands Of Germans fight for Ameri-
can independence. Benjamin Frank
Inns reument was almost entirely Ger
man. The Germans IN and around
Baltimore raised Il regiment OF intan-
try ana u company OF artillery There
IA no more beautiful story OF a minister
becomlng an officer and major-general.
than the case of John Peter Gabriel
Muhlcnberg, of Woodstock, Va, who
raised the seventh or German regiment.
OF Virginia, and helped TO capture York
town. General Muhlcnberg ever re-
manned tho warm personal friend Of
George Washington. There were other
great German generals. as ne hnlb,
who was born In Strassburg Baron
Won 6toubcn whn was the German
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