New Ulm review., 1912-11-13
"reminiscences Of Early Days
s1. Edited by Hugo Roos ss
Edited by Hugo Roos.

and many even murdered by laWless
Emobs without judge or jury, indictment
or trial, and their property con6scat.
led without any process of law; that
the authorities of the states wherein
these crimes are perp take no
measures to prevent or punish them,
( but rather encourage and approve
them that among those who have
|been so maltreated, are citizens of
minnesota; that within said rebel
1ious states the constitution and laws
of the United States are a dead let.
ter and the authority of the general
government defied; that an Ameri-
can vessel, bearing the flag. of the
United States, and in government EN-.
ploy, has been by rebels and traitors
fired upon and by force prevented
from entering a port of the United
States; that the channels leading in.
| to some yof the ports of the United
States have been by the authority OF
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the rebellious states aforesaid block
led up and obstructed; that conspira-
cies have been set on foot to take
possession of the capital of the
United States by an armed foe in
open rebellion against the govern.
ment;; that the navigation of the
Mississippi river has been and is
impeded and prevented by means. of
a battery or batteries planted on
its shores by authority of one of
:: the said rebellious states; and that
your petitioners cannot learn that the
constituted authorities of the govern
ment have taken, or are taking, eff
cient measures to put stop to or
punish such proceedings, or to pre-
went their repetition and indefinite
extension. -3=
Your petitioners also learn that
certain measures have been urged up
on your honorable body, having main
| ly in view the extension and per-
petuation of slavery, as a means of
buying off the perpetrators of the
above stated outrages from continu-
ing and aggravating them. d.
| Your petitioners are convinced that
such measures will not have the de-
sired effect, and that it is due to the
integrity of our government as we'll
as to the law-abiding citizens who
claim its protection, that the laws
should be enforced, ''and that THE
FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, THE
RIGHTS OF THE STATES, AND
ThE. UNION OF THE STATES,
SHALL BE PRESERVED"
Wherefore your petitioners pray
that your honorable body will place
at the disposal of the president of the
United States such means, in men
and money, as may be necessary for
the purpose, and that you call upon
him to enforce the laws, to reinforce
the forts threatened by rebels, to re-
capture Gf not peaceably delivered
upon demand) the forts and munitions
of war of which the government has
been robbed, to take measures to
bring traitors to trial and punish
ment, and generally to see to it that
the republic receives no detriment
at the hands of rebels and traitors :
| And your petitioners respectfully
but firmly protest against the, con-
sideratiOn by your honorable body
of any proposition for amending the
constitution, with a view to concili-
ate the states which are in open
rebellion, or which threaten rebellion
| if their demands be not complied
with until such states shall have
returned to their allegiance and have
Withdrawn their threats Of rebellion.
And especially do your petitioners
protest against the enactment of any
law, or the adoption of any PROPOSE
ton for amending the constitution,
which has in view the extension of
human slavery.
New Ulm, Mimi, February 18th,
1861.
G. w. Otto Barth Lambert Naegele
NJ. Zenopolski John Hauff
Francis Erd Adolph Setter
Adolph Steimle Joseph Koehler
/ F. A. Brandt J. Berndt
JOIN Victor Albert Held
TT T,nhev6e 4, Coh,lmacher