The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-07-23
PENNSYLVANIA ~purcH.~

was forced by their ayariciouS ruler
who sold them like cattle to George Ill.
and either as prisoners or deSerters the.
remained in Pennsylvania? Some o
them were good farmers and good citi
zens. Other some were-well, let tn,
following recollection of occurrence:
after Gettysburg's third day had de
feated Lee tell: An officer of the Unio1
troops, passing by comfortable bricl
house near the road, saw number o
: soldiers crowding around man wht
was selling pies at his front gate ant
taking the mems money. so cents for {
pie. The officer upbraided the man fol
his avarice in sharp language:
What kind of robber are you who
can take the money of these hungry
men for pies, who have been fighting
for three days to protect you and youl
property, and thousands of whose COM
rades lie unburied out here on the bat
tlefield. and you stand here taking IL
times the value of your pies from these
hungry menu
Get a rope and hang the - thief
to a limb of his own tree" shouted
some one.
None of that, boys said the officer
1.-The man had a right to sell pies for
what he could get, but you all ought to
worth of them. This mans avarice has
got the better of his sense. Let his
neighbors know what he has done, and
they will take care of him. Go else
where, and you will find the people
generally are doing all they can to give
food and coffee and whatever they may
to express their gratitude and good
will"
A citizen passing heard the talk, and
volunteered his indignation. HE sold
pies to the soldiers did he? On him;
he won't be permitted to stay in this
neighborhood." 1 learned afterward
| that he was compelled to sell out and
leave.
Different from this was the action of
one of the same thrifty German dis
senters." He had the desire to do good
| to the soldiers, and had written off in
| his labored way a number of recipes
! (alias Dutch hex') to save the boys
from evil, one of which, taking me
aside, he gave me with such an air of
satisfaction that I could not disturb his
ignorant faith, but received it with all
soleInnity due his belief in such miracu-
lous preservation, and thanked him. 1
send you copy of it.:
Christ Jesus be before me, behind
me, beside me. above me, below me
and all around me, and protect me
(name) from shooting, sticking, cutting,
throwing, striking. fire and water, and
by all manner of evil that may befall
me this day and forever, in the name
of God the Father. God the Son, and
God the Holy Ghost
This was to be memorized and recited
mentally, and was a sure protection
against all harm. The 91st Psalm was
to be read occasionally at convenient
times. He was one in whom the old
Hanoverian superstitions We're yet alive
in Ammo Domino 1S63.-W. G.. LIE Due,
Hastings, MINI.
Gen. LIE Due is in error in assuming
that considerable portion of the So
called Pennsylvania Dutch" are de-
scended from the Hessians Our re-
membrance is that altogether the Hes
slams whom the corrupt and worthless
Frederick IL, Elector of Hesse Cassel,
hired to the English did not amount to
over 10000 Only a portion of these
were taken prisoners, and these were
distributed in various cantonments att
Carlisle, Pa. Winchester, Pa, and else
where. The greater part of these pris-
oners, as well as the deserters of whom
Gen. LIE Due speaks, remained IN this
country, but after all they could have
been but very small percentage of
the population. The Germanic popula-
ton of Pennsylvania is due to entirely
its different causes. In the first place, the
at all, and there were never more than
a few Dutch settled in the State. They
were Germans, or what used to be-
known as High Dutch" in contradis-
tinction to Low Dutch.
Our forefathers in Great Britain
the Continent. These were Spaniards, |
French and the Dutch living in Holland,
Just across the English Channel There
fore. they called everybody who did rot
speak either French or Spanish Dutch"
The Germanic population of Pennsyl- |
vania is largely due to the religious
wars and prosecutions of the 18th and
18th centuries, and these sent two
classes of immigrants in great numbers |
into Pennsylvania, western Maryland, !
Virginia and the Mohawk Valley in
New York. These two classes were di- |
One class were the Lutherans, who |
were on the same intellectual and social |
plane of the Presbyterians who settled |
SD largely in New England, New York |
and the Lack country of Virginia, North |
Carolina and Georgia. Like them. they |
were strong, virile, pugnacious race, !
who at home had been farmers, manu-
facturers. mechanics, shopkeepers and |
professional men. They were of the |
same grade as the Huguenots, and |
formed the middle class. They brought |
printing presses, educational tendencies |
and skill in all the arts into Pennsylva-
did into the Colonies where they settled.
The other class was the more illiterate |
peasant class, made up almost wholly |
Of farm laborers, and who are to-day |
Mennonites and similar divisions of the
German Baptists.
That is. when the Reformation came |
the Protestants overthrow the mass of i
and teaching which the Ro-
man Catholics had bdilt up. The Luz
therans, Huguenots and Calvinists sub
stituted for this system of their own
built upon their Interpretation of the
This, as before stated, was
accepted by the middle class
in the cities and villages and by the
smaller landholders. On the other hand,
the more strictly peasant class deyel-
oned a RELIGIOUS 4noremcpt which ra