The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-12-03

nerves Tree, Address, u IL ~ KS
DIR. MILES MEDICAL co., Elkhart, Ind.
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his wound ran out over his boot.top,
There were no drawer and no better
soldiers In the Revolutionary army
than the Germans
One reason why the German makes
20 good a citizen Is because he IL true
and loyal to his surroundings. Heine,
the great poet, once said: III fidelity
and loyalty were not as old as the
world, surely a German would invent
It," He casts in his lot with the people
In whose midst he settles down, and
then is their friend through thick and
thin, In peace and war, in evel and good
report. Hence the Germans in the,
south rallied 10 the southern standard
when the civil war burst forth.
The Germans In the south Joined Its
army by the hundreds and North Caro-
lima and South Carolina furnished
whole companies Of German troops Iol-
licoffer. German Swiss, was an lnfan-
try major-generali Paul Barringer was
celebrated cavalry general and the
right hand man OF Stonewall Jackson
and General Wagner, OF Charleston, Il
most slsilful artillery general. The fines.
band of the southern army, was the
Entow band, in which all were Ger
mans, except one big-hearted lrishman
and he played the big drum.
Now what the south had as to Ger
mans by the hundreds, the north hau
by the tens Of thousands upon thou-
sands, and they had generals by the
dozen. or, for example. Schurz, ostef'
haus, Helntzelmann, Ortiz Sigel, Rose
crSnz, Schlmmelpferring and others
have heard southern generals say pup
lcly, "If II had not been for those
Dutch. we'd u whipped the Yankees:
II would be Interesting to Know just
how many In our great Union army
were German or OF German descent !
believe nearly one-half the army was
OF teutonlc origin.
GERMANS IN POLITICS.
He has ever been present In the poll!
tics of America, but modest, retiring,
and not oiilce-seeklng, he has not made
himself felt as he might have done.
lust think Of 10000 German voters In
Greater New York city alone. Never
theless many a German has been prom
lnent In politics. The first speaker OF
the first Congress was Muhlenherg,
German and from that day to this Con-
gress has never been without the Ger
man element. and sometimes dozen,
as sorg, Heilmann. Kleiner Hun,
Swopc Barthold, etc. have been mem
bers at one time, and the nation Is
proud OF Carl Schurz. Governors by
the dozen and mayors by the hundred
have been OF German origin
What would America hqve been or
what would II be to-day without the
musc-l loving, music-cultlvating, music
| furnishing Germans They nave lur-
nlahed America with an army of music
| teachers and professors that nave pecn
a blessing to, millions OF the youth OF
orr land. They have organized the lit-
tie string band and mighty orchestra,
and the Silver, cornet concert COM
panlcs- Bryant. Of Clnclnnati; Thee.
dore Thomas, OF Chicago; !. SeIdl. OF
New York, make the world honor their
three respective great, grand orchcstras
with more than sixty men in each. ana
who but the Germans give us the IN
spring, sublime saengerfests, with q
| tho,isnnd trained voices. See too, the
| German names on the instruments
| There are the Rnabe pianos. Weber
Decker, Stein%ay, SohmeT krakauer
| etc.
Liberty Of speech and press are dear
| to the Germanlc heart, our German
pnpcrs are doing a most noble work IN
not only matchmaking our Immigrants
| in American principles and preparing
| them for American citizenship, but as
| hundreds of thousands Of copies SO over
To the Fatherland, they populari2e these
| glorious gifts IN the homes across the
sea. God bless Our commandment
editors,
A GERMAN EDITOR.
Permit me now to draw attention to
a remarkable fact to show the indebt.
cdncss OF all American editorG to Ger.
man editor to whoae trial and acquittal
| they owe, 10 say the least, u debt OF
gratitude, If not the liberty OF the press
| John Peter Zcngcr edited papon
| called The New York Weekly Journal,
! tts first issue appeared in 1883, on No.
| yonber r. lGi years ago. He advocated
| hravcly, boldly, constantly, the rights OF
| the people. The English governor hated
| this und sought TO arrest Ienger. ON
November 2, 1854 hc ordered that the
hangman should publicly burn the ar
tlclag OF Hcngcr and that the mayor
should be present Both the hHnginan
ana mayor refused and tho aldermen
protested, aud finally II was arranged
that n negro slave OF the sheriff should
burn the papers, which wag done. Mo-
yembor II Zenger, the brave advocate
OF the peoples rights, the pioneer free
presA man Of America, wnH arrested,
Hundreds Of the people surrounded HIN
and cheerod him. The lawyers that ht-
dortook to plead his caupc were then
deprived OF their powers OF attorney.
Tho legal process ngnnpt Xengcr began
August 4, 1856 The court appointed y
certain lawyer Chambers to defend
lenger, hut Chambers was Il wenkllng
and under the governors Influence Tht
friends Of 2enger had secured Andfci
Hamilton, the gifted lawyer Of Phlln
dolphln. who UNEXPECTEDLY appeared ana
Unexpectedly Ilfosc In court to cham
plon the cause Of the Imprisoned Cor
man editor. nnd delivered that rcmnrk'
ably wonderful speech that made him
tho apostle NJ FREQ pfpsn for America
ana mat made Zengor the hero. Thus
the prpna 0f orr great country N lndeDt'
I'd io dogrep Ia ii uolmnn-A American
editor There nio not only hundreds nf
pure German editors IN America who
run German papers, hui hundt1dB VINO
ARE editors of city ana county pnpciH
tint are l1hglhh who started ana
managed Puck hui Kcpplcr ana
gohWnrgmunn2 who ~ the proprietor
land editor VI the great New YORK World