Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-05-12

There was period during the civil
war, when the outlook for the success
OF the Union was yelled in gloom and
many tcmbled for the outcome.
While England was sending fully
equipped and manned warships over
| to aid the Confederate cause. and the
Alabama" and FLORIDA" were sink
! ing our ships and sweeping the seas
clean of American Merchant ships,
| the Union had but one friend
GERMANY.
While England was helping the
cause OF the South by buying Con-
federate bonds to enable the Con-
| feuerato government to continue the
war against the North, LONDON and
! PARIS prohibited the listing OF
| American (Northern) bonds on their
exchanges and boards Of trades But
Germany bought the Union bonds,
and American hearts beat with
gratitude for the loyal assistance
! given them in their darkest hour.
The whole matter was threshed out
In the u. S. Senate in 1870 when this
Government, after much opposition,
placed an embargo on the shipments
Of arms TO France during the Franco
! Prussian war We will cite q few
extracts from the speeches Of that
time taken from the Globe Congress
sional Record 3rd session, 4lst Con-
grCss Part III. from PIP 953-955.
"Mr Stewart, Senator from Me-
yada: Allow mo TO call the attention
Of the Senator from Tennessee to the
fact, which he must recollect. of the
amount Of our bonds that were taken
i'm Germany at the time we needed
that they should be taken, and when
they were prohibited from the ex-
change In London, and from the
Bourse in Paris, and not allowed to
be on the market there az all, on ac-
count OF the state Of public opinion
there. while Germany alone came in
and took FIVE or six hundred million
dollars at a time when we needed
money more than anything else, to
sustain our credit. That is a fact
showing sympathy. certainly"
The fact cannot be made too patent
or emphatic that Germany came to
the rescue of the United States at a
time when England was openly our
worst enemy and France prohibited
tho bonds OF tho Union from being
listed at the Bourse, "on account OF
the state Of public opinion there" in
the words of Senator Stewart. Have
the Americans forgotten the only
friend they had when they needed
friends?
how is that debt Of gratitude be-
ing repaid?
Let us quote again from the
official proceedings of that same con-
gress. same session Congressional
d. 954) Senator pomeroy Is speaking
now:
"They Cthe Germans) sent us men;
they helped to save the life OF this
nation. Though the French were our
ancient allies, the Germans have been
our modern allies. and ! would not
discriminate against either of them. =
Yes. Germany sent 1875 men to
swell the Union army ito save the
life OF the nation" according TO Dr.
Could of the Sanitary Commission
But according to William Kaufman
("The Germans in the American
Civil War; the colossal total of
216.000 native born Germans fought
in the Union Army, in addition to
800, 900 sons Of German-born parents
and $4,000 OF remoter German OK
traction Well did Senator Charles
Sumner put il when he declared in
the United States Senate (Congres-
slonal Record. 3rd Session, 4lst
Congress, page $3.50:
1--WE owe infinitely TO Germany"
Germany was "our modern ally,
as Senator Pomeroy declared. II was
our ally until August 4th 1914; when
we turned against her and became
the ally Of England and France, that
refused to allow our bonds to be sold
in their market, hoping thereby to
destroy the Union.
Today the descendants OF those
Germans who shed their blood for
the life Of this nation and sustained
our credit by subscribing to our
bonds, are denounced as disloyal to
the United States, and the allies have
usurped the place at our breast that
the Germans had gained by their
blood and substance; today the bars
are up against our former friends
and allies and down for those who
plot to kill thcm.
If the Germans helped to save the
life OF this nation" how is that debt
being repaid?
Who knows whether the English
hatred against the Germans has not
found root in their aiding the Union?
Thus making us indirectly respons-
ible for the terrific slaughter In
Europe?
why Is today man in the Presi-
Dental chair whose father con-
dcmned the North, and was the friend
and ally OF the Confederate and the
English? Is ii q chance? Or is It
another branch OF the Cecil Rhodes"
plan, to win back the lost colonies?
The European war has been planned
by England since many years. and It
was to be ripe between 1914 and
1916. SO the election of Wilson may
not be so accidental. after ALL The
support that he gets from the Nor
gan clique and the English press
gives true inside OF the machina
tions. In conclusion a well-dt poem
We will remember it. England's
Neutrality"
We who have witnessed her cow