Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-07-15

" III ~ III luuG lJSuQSuCc LAY
will be celebrated in Sinner in
grand style on Monday, August
2, and we give herewith a short
history, showing how Hermann,
the great German leader, who
achieved the independence of
Germany and freed his country
from the Roman rule, was the
prince or chief of the Cherusci,
called by the Roman writer's Ar
minus and by the Greeks Ar
menios. He was the son of Sigh
mer, and was born in the year
16B. @. The period during the
youth of Hermann was one of
great peril to Germany. To Sc
cure the frontier of the empire
against the attacks of the Ger
manic tribes, the Romans had
been forced to advance into the
more turbulent districts and to
build a series of forts to overawe
the inhabitants. In this manner
not only had most of the Celtic
tribes from the Alps to the Da-
nnbe been subdued, but in the
years from 9 B. G. to 4 A. D.
Drusus and Tiberius had pene.
trated into the northwest of Ger
many as far as the Elbe. laid out
a number of military roads,
erected fortresses in the country
and reduced the different tribes
to such dependence upon Rome
as virtually amounted to complete
subjugation. With so much pru-
dence and caution had Tiberius
proceeded that the Germans con-
tinued to all appearance on the
best terms with the Romans,
gradually adopted Roman habits,
and frequently and readily took
service in the Roman armies.
Thus Hermann and his brother,
F'lavius, had enrolled themselves
under the Roman standards, aud
AS leaders of the Cheruscan aux
iliaries had not only obtained
Roman citizenship, and the rank
of knighthood in the country of
the Danube, but had likewise
acquired a knowledge of the
Latin language, and a deep in
SIGHT into the arts of war and
policy as practiced by the Ro'
mans Enriched with these ex-
periences, when Hermann after
the expiration of some years,
returned home, he found the
tate of affairs considerably
changed for the worse, through
the unskillful despotism of the
Roman viceroy, Quintilius Varus
Hermann now conceived the
plan of delivering his country
from it's oppressors. All the
tribes and leaders, as far as the
Elbe, were secretly summoned
Varus was lulled into security
and induced to dispatch portions
of his army to different points
and with the remaining portion,
| which was just on the point o.
leaving the country of the Che
rusci for the Rhine to quit the
highway. He was thus luret
into the impossible districts O.
the Teutoburg forest, where al
engagement took place which
lasted for three days. The re
suit was the humiliation of thu
Roman army. When intelligence
Iof this defeat reached Rome, i
: excited the greatest consterna
ton and anxiety. The Germans
: however, who had only their owl
liberation, prosecuted their vic
tory no further and for a fey
; years both parties, so to speak
: hung fire. When Germanicus
, however, in IA A. D. assumed tn
|, command on the lower Rhine, h
1 resolved to crush the Germans
! In two successive campaigns i
IA and 16 A. D., he reduced Hel
mann to great straits but he bC
5 ing recalled to Rome by the en-
3 peror, Tiberius, in II A. D. TIL
I results of his victorious activit
! we're lost. From this time, 4
3 Roman army ever ventured I
I penetrate from the Rhine int
s the, interior of Germany, and tn
3 circumstance which decided I'll
4 future fate of Germany, must (
q ascribed to Hermann. Neverth
! less, no sooner was the foreig