"Obey the prohibition laws!" wrote the lackey Denison Review a few weeks ago, cowering and wagging its tail like a dog before the Republican party. The newspaper itself, however, or at least its editors, hasn't the slightest desire to do so. We have been informed from reliable sources that these men have already filled their cellars with the best stuff and have made arrangements to send themselves a case of soap every week, since the railroad company will transport neither beer nor anything strong without a permit. Whatever happened to following the law? It's certainly not following the law when one works to circumvent it, even if we, for our part, have no objections to circumventing this shameful Prohibition act, since this seems to be the popular thing to do. It just seems so ridiculous to us to create laws that one knows will not be followed by the very persons who created them. Mustn't the people in the end lose all respect for laws and legislators? Sad circumstances, indeed!
Everyone is convinced that here in Carroll no one will undertake anything against saloon owners, even the Prohibitionists, as long as saloon owners conduct themselves more or less reputably. We hope as well that saloon owners will follow this course. We are convinced that the drunkards apparent from time to time on the streets did not get drunk in saloons, because as we hear, no, as we have personally assured ourselves, saloon owners are extremely careful with the sale of alcohol. Common drunks are unable to procure anything in saloons, and it's the same for minors. Now, those who purchase intoxicating drink for certain drunkards should also refrain from this habit, for precisely these good (?) friends of the drunkards could get a rude awakening. And those people who find themselves with a drunk at home should just stay at home, instead of parading around with him in saloons and on the street and thereby rousing suspicion against saloon owners.
]]>The good (?) supporters of temperence in Carroll held a secret meeting last week at which four men and three women gathered,a grand total of seven. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the foundation of an association for implementing the Prohibition act in Carroll County. However, after much back and forth, they realized that this would not be so easy, since to implement such a law requires money, quite a bit of money, and those present at the meeting could not resolve to put up the required sum, and so the whole project fell apart. They had also discovered that the business owners who had been invited to the meeting did not turn up, and thus that one could not count on their support.
Everyone is convinced that here in Carroll no one will undertake anything against saloon owners, even the Prohibitionists, as long as saloon owners conduct themselves more or less reputably. We hope as well that saloon owners will follow this course. We are convinced that the drunkards apparent from time to time on the streets did not get drunk in saloons, because as we hear, no, as we have personally assured ourselves, saloon owners are extremely careful with the sale of alcohol. Common drunks are unable to procure anything in saloons, and it's the same for minors. Now, those who purchase intoxicating drink for certain drunkards should also refrain from this habit, for precisely these good (?) friends of the drunkards could get a rude awakening. And those people who find themselves with a drunk at home should just stay at home, instead of parading around with him in saloons and on the street and thereby rousing suspicion against saloon owners.
Hermann B. Scharmann, President of the National Brewers Association and a very influential Republican of the 21st Ward in Brooklyn, has as of now wholeheartedly declared his support for Cleveland and Hendricks. When asked as to how he had come to this point, he responded:
Because, in my view and opinion, Cleveland's candidacy has very much to do with personal freedom as well as with the lack of restrictions in every respect for many of our best citizens. Republicans of various states, particularly those of Kansas and Iowa, have attacked the gift of personal liberty most injuriously with their Prohibition laws, and some citizens must sacrifice their liberty for these laws. I believe that no one should have the right, by way of his vote, to say whether I must or must not drink any type of alcoholic beverage. A few of my Republican friends say to me: Scharmann, this Prohibition question is something which concerns states on an individual basis; the President has nothing to do with it. My answer is that the last Congress, due to the efforts of Neal Dow, the father of Prohibition, and of Mr. Blair of New Hampshire, appointed a committee solely for the purpose of reporting to the next Congress whether, in the committee's view, it would be advisable for the government to press for a Prohibition law against the sale and production of alcoholic beverages.
What does this have to do with Mr. Blaine, in your opinion?
You will recall that during the Republican National Convention Herr Blaine had the support of every delegate from Maine, Kansas, and Iowa, all three of which are Prohibition states. And you will further recall that when the Prohibitionists were encouraging Mr. Neal Dow to run for the presidency, he promptly answered: No, I will vote for Blaine; the man is enough of a temperance advocate for my vote.
What portion of German voters agree with these views of yours?
I have many good reasons to assume that my views are the same as those of a vast majority of the thinking German electorate, regardless of their political allegiance. However, I have other reasons to oppose Mr. Blaine. There is namely nothing that can be said to his benefit in the fact that the Republican Party has portrayed him as their shrewdest politician. Note well that I say politician. During the twenty-one or more years that he has sat in Congress, he has not helped write a single law that did any good for the public, and wherever Blaine could do a good deed, he has never forgotten his best friend: himself.
In your opinion, which states will show the strongest German opposition against Blaine?
New York, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, and the opposition in these states will likely be fatal for his candidacy.
Hence the interest of our nation's brewers will also be against Blaine?
I believe it will be so. However, as president of the Brewers Association of the United States, I am not authorized to suggest that all brewers will be against Blaine, although I think the majority is. My belief is based principally on the opinions of those men who are involved in the same trade as myself.
What do you think the probable result in this state [New York?] will be?
I positively believe Mr. Cleveland will win our state because I know a great number of my Republican friends will vote for the Democratic candidate. When I voted for the first time I voted for Abraham Lincoln, and if I now vote for Cleveland it will be the first time ever that I voted for a Democratic candidate. I am a Republican and thus do not belong to the Democratic party even now. I have however stepped down from the Republican general committee, so that I might be free and able to conduct myself freely without having to neglect my duties as a member of this committee.
]]>Why the President of the National Brewers Association won't vote for Blaine
Hermann B. Scharmann, President of the National Brewers Association and a very influential Republican of the 21st Ward in Brooklyn, has as of now wholeheartedly declared his support for Cleveland and Hendricks. When asked as to how he had come to this point, he responded:
Because, in my view and opinion, Cleveland's candidacy has very much to do with personal freedom as well as with the lack of restrictions in every respect for many of our best citizens. Republicans of various states, particularly those of Kansas and Iowa, have attacked the gift of personal liberty most injuriously with their Prohibition laws, and some citizens must sacrifice their liberty for these laws. I believe that no one should have the right, by way of his vote, to say whether I must or must not drink any type of alcoholic beverage. A few of my Republican friends say to me: Scharmann, this Prohibition question is something which concerns states on an individual basis; the President has nothing to do with it. My answer is that the last Congress, due to the efforts of Neal Dow, the father of Prohibition, and of Mr. Blair of New Hampshire, appointed a committee solely for the purpose of reporting to the next Congress whether, in the committee's view, it would be advisable for the government to press for a Prohibition law against the sale and production of alcoholic beverages.
What does this have to do with Mr. Blaine, in your opinion?
You will recall that during the Republican National Convention Herr Blaine had the support of every delegate from Maine, Kansas, and Iowa, all three of which are Prohibition states. And you will further recall that when the Prohibitionists were encouraging Mr. Neal Dow to run for the presidency, he promptly answered: No, I will vote for Blaine; the man is enough of a temperance advocate for my vote.
What portion of German voters agree with these views of yours?
I have many good reasons to assume that my views are the same as those of a vast majority of the thinking German electorate, regardless of their political allegiance. However, I have other reasons to oppose Mr. Blaine. There is namely nothing that can be said to his benefit in the fact that the Republican Party has portrayed him as their shrewdest politician. Note well that I say politician. During the twenty-one or more years that he has sat in Congress, he has not helped write a single law that did any good for the public, and wherever Blaine could do a good deed, he has never forgotten his best friend: himself.
In your opinion, which states will show the strongest German opposition against Blaine?
New York, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, and the opposition in these states will likely be fatal for his candidacy.
Hence the interest of our nation's brewers will also be against Blaine?
I believe it will be so. However, as president of the Brewers Association of the United States, I am not authorized to suggest that all brewers will be against Blaine, although I think the majority is. My belief is based principally on the opinions of those men who are involved in the same trade as myself.
What do you think the probable result in this state [New York?] will be?
I positively believe Mr. Cleveland will win our state because I know a great number of my Republican friends will vote for the Democratic candidate. When I voted for the first time I voted for Abraham Lincoln, and if I now vote for Cleveland it will be the first time ever that I voted for a Democratic candidate. I am a Republican and thus do not belong to the Democratic party even now. I have however stepped down from the Republican general committee, so that I might be free and able to conduct myself freely without having to neglect my duties as a member of this committee.
Die Deutschen für Cleveland
Warum der Präsident der National-Brauer-Association nicht für Blaine stimmen will.
Hermann B. Scharmann, Präsident der National-Brauer-Association und ein sehr einflussreicher Republikaner der einundzwanzigsten Ward von Brooklyn, ist nunmehr herzhaft und umwunden für Cleveland und Hendricks aufgetreten. Als er darüber befragt wurde, wie er zu diesem Standpunkt gelangt sei, antwortete er:
“Weil, nach meiner Ansicht und Meinung, seine Candidatur sehr viel mit der persönlichen Freiheit zu thun hat und mit der Unbeschränktheit vieler unserer besten Mitbürger in jeder Hinsicht. Die Republikaner verschiedener Staaten der Union, vornehmlich diejenigen von Kansas und Iowa, haben die Wohlthat der persönlichen Freiheit durch Prohibitionsgesetze auf’s Empfindlichst angegriffen und diesen Gesetzen muß ein Theil seine Unabhängigkeit zum Opfer bringen. Ich halte dafür, daß Niemand ein Recht hat, durch seine Abstimmung zu besagen, ob ich irgend ein alkoholhaltiges Getränk trinken muß oder nicht muß. Manche meiner republikanischen Freunde sagen zu mir: “Scharmann, diese Prohibitionsfrage ist ein Ding, welches die einzelnen Staaten allein angeht; der Präsident hat nichts damit zu thun.” Meine Antwort ist, daß der letzte Congreß, durch die Anstrengungen von Neal Dow, dem Vater der Prohibition, und durch Herrn Blair von New Hampshire eine Commission lediglich zu dem Zwecke ernannte, dem kommenden Congreß zu rapportiren, ob es, nach des Committee’s Ansicht, für die Regierung rathsam sein würde, darauf zu dringen, daß ein Prohibitions-Gesetz gegen den Verkauf und die Herstellung von alkoholhaltigen Getränken zu Stande komme.”
“In welche Verbindung bringen Sie Herrn Blaine mit dieser Angelegenheit?”
“Sie werden sich erinnern, daß gelegentlich der republikanischen National-Convention Herr Blaine die Unterstützung jedes Delegaten von Maine, Kansas und Iowa hatte, welche alle drei Prohibitionstaaten sind. Und Sie werden sich ferner erinnern, daß, als die Prohibitionisten Herrn Neal Dow angingen, sich um die Präsidentschafts-Candidatur zu bewerben, derselbe prompt antwortete: “Nein, ich werde für Blaine stimmen; der Mann ist mir genug Temperenzler für meine Stimme.”
“Welcher Theil von deutschen Wählern stimmt wohl mit diesen Ihren Ansichten überein?”
“Ich habe meine guten Gründe, anzunehmen, daß meine Ansichten durchaus die gleichen sind von einer überwiegend großen Mehrzahl des intelligenten deutschen stimmfähigen Elements, ohne Rücksicht auf deren politische Richtung. Aber ich habe noch andere Gründe, Hrn. Blaine zu opponiren. Da ist nämlich Nichts, was zu seinen Gunsten sprechen könnte in dem Faktum, daß die republikanische Partei ihn als ihren ‘geriebensten Politiker’-- merken Sie wohl auf, ich sage: ‘Politiker’-- dargestellt. Während der einundzwanzig Jahre oder mehr, welche er im Congreß gesessen, hat er kein Gesetz schaffen helfen, das dem Publikum Gutes gebracht hätte, und wo immer Blaine sich selbst eine Wohlthat erzeigen konnte, hat er auch sich selbst, als seinen besten Freund, nicht vergessen.”
“In welchen Staaten wird die Opposition der Deutschen gegen Blaine sich wohl am stärksten zeigen nach Ihrer Ansicht?”
“In den Staaten New York, Ohio, Illinois und Indiana und die Opposition in diesen Staaten wird voraussichtlich fatal für seine Candidatur werden.”
“Darnach wäre also das Interesse der Brauer unseres Landes gegen Blaine gekehrt?”
“Ich glaube, daß dies so sein wird. Doch bin ich als Präsident der Brauer-Association der Ver. Staaten nicht autorisirt, zu behaupten, daß die Brauer alle gegen Blaine seien, doch ich glaube, daß es die Mehrzahl ist. Mein Glaube gründet sich hauptsächlich auf die Meinungsäußerung derjenigen Männer. Welche in der gleichen Branche thätig sind, wie ich selbst.”
“Was meinen Sie wohl, daß das wahrscheinliche Resultat in diesem Staate sein werde?”
“Ich glaube positiv, daß Herr Cleveland unseren Staat gewinnen wird, denn ich kenne eine große Anzahl meiner republikanischen Freunde, welche für den demokratischen Candidaten stimmen werden. Als ich zum ersten Male gestimmt habe, war es für Abraham Lincoln, und wenn ich nun für Cleveland stimme, dann wird dies das erste Mal sein, daß ich je für einen demokratischen Candidaten gestimmt habe. Ich bin ein Republikaner und gehöre demnach der Demokratie auch jetzt nicht an. Aber ich habe mich vom republikanischen General-Committee zurückgezogen, damit ich frei sei und frei handeln könne, ohne meine Pflichten als ein Mitglied, dieses Committee’s verletzen zu müssen.”Beer riots similar to those on the West Side [of Carroll] occurred in Iowa City, and if the Gentlemen Prohibitionists had their sights set on blood, then blood may indeed flow on account of this shameful Prohibition Act. The Anti-Prohibitionists will not tolerate the restriction of their personal liberty and show their defiance whenever the Prohibitionists give them the opportunity. On this point, the Illinois Staats-Zeitung (Illinois State Newspaper) writes the following:
If acts of violence against the lackeys of the Prohibitionists occur here and there in Iowa, then the Prohibitionists are themselves to blame, for it was precisely they who first broke the law in their blind rage by vastly exceeding the provisions of the Prohibition Act. The Law and Order League presumes the right to circumvent district attorneys by means of venal lawyers and twisters of the law, whom they pay to target saloon owners and brewers and to drag them before rural justices of the peace who are eager to do their will, even when the circuit court has denied the justices of the peace any jurisdiction over matters of Prohibition. Indeed, the lawyers of the Law and Order League, by extorting funds from the businessmen they persecute, deprive the state treasury of money that should by law belong to it. And if one attempts to prosecute such a law-breaker, then he knows how to make the charges disappear, as one recently experienced with the honest law firm Blake & Newman in Burlington.
Can one be surprised if in the end this sort of mischief on the part of Prohibitionists calls forth violent resistance? These same circumstances have now led to outbursts of violence in Johnson County, about which the Prohibitionists and their panderers are now raising a ruckus.
Two respected brewers of Iowa City, the county seat, were dragged in front of a justice of the peace out in the country, namely in Scott Township, not at the instigation of the district attorney, but rather by the private lawyer of the local Law and Order society. At this, the blood of the opponents of Prohibition tyranny began to boil. More than a hundred of them grabbed the paid lawyer and informant for the Law and Order League, stripped him naked in the street, coated him with tar and chased him away. He has since returned safe and sound to his home in Iowa City, where two of his co-informants, the Swafford brothers, had received a proper, but not life-threatening thrashing from outraged citizens. No other disturbance of the peace occurred, and not a hair was harmed on anyones head except for those of the aforementioned informants. Neither the city police nor the sheriff seem to have shown much interest in coming to the informants' aid.
We would be abhorrent hypocrites, much like the Prohibitionists, if we were to express the slightest moral outrage about these acts of violence. They would be regrettable only if they were to have nasty consequences for their perpetrators.
The young people who chastised Bailey, the attorney, and his two co-informants have simply reciprocated one unlawful deed through another. But even if those chastised had conducted themselves lawfully, no freedom-loving man would have the right to regard their chastisers as common criminals. The term criminal applies to them as little as to those citizens who opposed the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, and who tanned the hides of the bounty hunters and bloodhounds of slave owners.
Many of the old men in the North who now scream themselves hoarse for Prohibition once approved of violent resistance against the Fugitive Slave Act, even though the law was passed not by a paltry state legislature, but rather by Congress, with the approval of the President and the Supreme Court. Indeed they deemed resistance against this law a duty in accordance with higher law, a higher law of ethics and freedom that supersedes the despotic law of humankind, even if the latter has been passed and approved ten times by majority. Prohibition is however in its own way equally mean-spirited and contrary to reason, a violation of one part of the people by the other, just like the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Beer riots similar to those on the West Side [of Carroll] occurred in Iowa City, and if the Gentlemen Prohibitionists had their sights set on blood, then blood may indeed flow on account of this shameful Prohibition Act. The Anti-Prohibitionists will not tolerate the restriction of their personal liberty and show their defiance whenever the Prohibitionists give them the opportunity. On this point, the Illinois Staats-Zeitung (Illinois State Newspaper) writes the following:
If acts of violence against the lackeys of the Prohibitionists occur here and there in Iowa, then the Prohibitionists are themselves to blame, for it was precisely they who first broke the law in their blind rage by vastly exceeding the provisions of the Prohibition Act. The Law and Order League presumes the right to circumvent district attorneys by means of venal lawyers and twisters of the law, whom they pay to target saloon owners and brewers and to drag them before rural justices of the peace who are eager to do their will, even when the circuit court has denied the justices of the peace any jurisdiction over matters of Prohibition. Indeed, the lawyers of the Law and Order League, by extorting funds from the businessmen they persecute, deprive the state treasury of money that should by law belong to it. And if one attempts to prosecute such a law-breaker, then he knows how to make the charges disappear, as one recently experienced with the honest law firm Blake & Newman in Burlington.
Can one be surprised if in the end this sort of mischief on the part of Prohibitionists calls forth violent resistance? These same circumstances have now led to outbursts of violence in Johnson County, about which the Prohibitionists and their panderers are now raising a ruckus.
Two respected brewers of Iowa City, the county seat, were dragged in front of a justice of the peace out in the country, namely in Scott Township, not at the instigation of the district attorney, but rather by the private lawyer of the local Law and Order society. At this, the blood of the opponents of Prohibition tyranny began to boil. More than a hundred of them grabbed the paid lawyer and informant for the Law and Order League, stripped him naked in the street, coated him with tar and chased him away. He has since returned safe and sound to his home in Iowa City, where two of his co-informants, the Swafford brothers, had received a proper, but not life-threatening thrashing from outraged citizens. No other disturbance of the peace occurred, and not a hair was harmed on anyones head except for those of the aforementioned informants. Neither the city police nor the sheriff seem to have shown much interest in coming to the informants' aid.
We would be abhorrent hypocrites, much like the Prohibitionists, if we were to express the slightest moral outrage about these acts of violence. They would be regrettable only if they were to have nasty consequences for their perpetrators.
The young people who chastised Bailey, the attorney, and his two co-informants have simply reciprocated one unlawful deed through another. But even if those chastised had conducted themselves lawfully, no freedom-loving man would have the right to regard their chastisers as common criminals. The term criminal applies to them as little as to those citizens who opposed the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, and who tanned the hides of the bounty hunters and bloodhounds of slave owners.
Many of the old men in the North who now scream themselves hoarse for Prohibition once approved of violent resistance against the Fugitive Slave Act, even though the law was passed not by a paltry state legislature, but rather by Congress, with the approval of the President and the Supreme Court. Indeed they deemed resistance against this law a duty in accordance with higher law, a higher law of ethics and freedom that supersedes the despotic law of humankind, even if the latter has been passed and approved ten times by majority. Prohibition is however in its own way equally mean-spirited and contrary to reason, a violation of one part of the people by the other, just like the Fugitive Slave Act.
Next week we will begin publishing the laws passed during the most recent legislative session. Every German should make an effort to collect these laws and make use of them as needed. By virtue of an accurate translation of the text of newly passed legislation, any German with little or no knowledge of English will be aided in understanding the legal system of our state, and will in the same way be able to avoid being swindled by lawyers etc.
Everyone has to deal with the courts in some manner. If a German comes before the court, then he can almost certainly be expected to lose his case.
However, it would be something else entirely if a German standing trial, when he sees that hes being unjustly treated, could cite this or that paragraph of the legal code. In order to gain this independence, we have resolved to publish in our paper German translations of all laws which have up to this point been passed in the State of Iowa. Let no one who respects law and order, and who also wishes to save himself the useless waste of money for lawyers, miss this opportunity to gain possession of the laws of Iowa so inexpensively.
$1.50 per year is surely a small sum for a weekly newspaper; certainly no paper can be delivered cheaper!
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Next week we will begin publishing the laws passed during the most recent legislative session. Every German should make an effort to collect these laws and make use of them as needed. By virtue of an accurate translation of the text of newly passed legislation, any German with little or no knowledge of English will be aided in understanding the legal system of our state, and will in the same way be able to avoid being swindled by lawyers etc.
Everyone has to deal with the courts in some manner. If a German comes before the court, then he can almost certainly be expected to lose his case.
However, it would be something else entirely if a German standing trial, when he sees that hes being unjustly treated, could cite this or that paragraph of the legal code. In order to gain this independence, we have resolved to publish in our paper German translations of all laws which have up to this point been passed in the State of Iowa. Let no one who respects law and order, and who also wishes to save himself the useless waste of money for lawyers, miss this opportunity to gain possession of the laws of Iowa so inexpensively.
$1.50 per year is surely a small sum for a weekly newspaper; certainly no paper can be delivered cheaper!
E.J Pleyel, Publisher and Editor
For President: Abraham Lincoln of Illinois.
For Vice President: Hannibal Hamlin of Maine.
Jos. A. Chapline of Dubuque Co.
Fitz Henry Warren of Des Moines Co.
1st District. M.L. McPherson of Madison
2nd District. Charles Pomeroy of Boone Co.
For Secretary of State
Elijah Sells
For Auditor
J.W. Cattell
For Treasuer
J.W. Jones
For Attorney General
C.C. Nurse
For Registrar of the Land Office
A.B. Miller
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Today's issue of our newspaper contains the platform that was ratified by the Republican national convention in Chicago, which can be considered one of the most successful national documents of its kind. Upon careful reading and study of this document, anyone who until now has been torn between the two principal parties of the country will know how to choose. This platform provides reliable guarantees for adoptive citizens like us, especially as regards Paragraph 14, which was adopted solely for the benefit of immigrants and was energetically defended at the convention by our upstanding countryman Mr. Schurz. It frees us from the hitherto disgraceful and despotic tutelage of the Nativists.
The Republican party has as candidates men whom one can trust. Abe Lincoln has worked his way up from a farmer to the rank of a legislator and is universally honored and respected. He is the true man for the Northwest; his origins are among the people, thus he is a man of the people; he understands the shortcomings and neglect by the government in regard to the Northwest, and next March, having ascended the Capitol steps, he will know where aid and reforms are necessary.
He is the man we have long needed. Up until now the presidential office has been occupied for the most part by puppets and cold-fish aristocrats who puffed themselves up and behaved like absolute monarchs; those who fawned before the thrones of Europe as well as before the money and n***** barons at home, and in the process forgot the interests of the people! Many of these men had previously resided at foreign courts and learned there what they had perhaps not yet known: systematic diplomatic humbug and the fleecing of the people.
The honorable judge Mr. Douglas himself has given Democratic guest lectures at various European courts, preaching the blessings of slavery in the United States for the amusement of those who rule by Gods grace and their consorts. Yet he was not received, as he is here, as the Little Giant, but rather laughed off as a political-diplomatic buffoon.
The grand duke Alexander, now Czar of Russia, took Douglas's Human Flesh Trade story to heart such that soon after his ascension to the throne he began to end the institution of serfdom so as to eliminate any suspicion of having endorsed an American N***** Baron System.
Newspapers affiliated with the Democratic Party accuse Lincoln of having split fence rails in his younger years; all the more respect for Mr. Lincoln for having earned his bread honorably. Better to eat one's bread by the sweat of one's brow than, as an idler and parasite, to play the great man at the cost of the nation.
Germans of America! Read the Republican platform with care, consider and discuss it with knowledgeable men. Then you will most certainly discover that foreigners have been considered in this platform and are regarded as free citizens.
Don't listen to these Democratic hucksters und political capitalizers: they make all sorts of promises to you now because they plan to use you as electoral cattle. Once they've reached their goal, then they'll give you a swift kick, just as they have always done.
Germans! Consider carefully that when you vote the Democratic ticket, you're also helping to spread slavery, and what German can be so conscienceless and behave so senselessly as to damn a fellow human, even one of another skin color, to slavery?
"Eternal infamy!" will one day be the cry of posterity: Germans, too, supported the accursed institution of slavery in the nineteenth century. Children and grandchildren will speak with indignation of their forebears and curse those who helped to open the free soil of the territories for slavery, thereby closing them off for free labor.
Your descendants will go hungry, for wherever slavery takes root, there remains no refuge for the poor free worker. Wise up, then, and provide for the well-being of your descendants and do your share to preserve a piece of free soil for them. Future generations--indeed, history itself--will rejoice and preserve your memory with gratitude.
Let "Down with the spread of slavery" be every Germans watchword and "Freedom for All" his rallying cry.
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Be it resolved that we, the delegated representatives of the Republican voters of the U.S., gathered in convention, discharging the duties that are due our constituents and our country, agree to the following declaration.
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14) That the national Republican party is and will be against any alteration of the naturalization laws and against any and all legislation by which the rights of citizenship that have until now been extended to immigrants of foreign lands might be limited or altered. We are for the complete and effective protection of the rights of all classes of citizens, regardless of whether they are native or naturalized, or at home or abroad.
]]>E.J Pleyel, Publisher and Editor
For President: Abraham Lincoln of Illinois.
For Vice President: Hannibal Hamlin of Maine.
Jos. A. Chapline of Dubuque Co.
Fitz Henry Warren of Des Moines Co.
1st District. M.L. McPherson of Madison
2nd District. Charles Pomeroy of Boone Co.
For Secretary of State
Elijah Sells
For Auditor
J.W. Cattell
For Treasuer
J.W. Jones
For Attorney General
C.C. Nurse
For Registrar of the Land Office
A.B. Miller
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Today's issue of our newspaper contains the platform that was ratified by the Republican national convention in Chicago, which can be considered one of the most successful national documents of its kind. Upon careful reading and study of this document, anyone who until now has been torn between the two principal parties of the country will know how to choose. This platform provides reliable guarantees for adoptive citizens like us, especially as regards Paragraph 14, which was adopted solely for the benefit of immigrants and was energetically defended at the convention by our upstanding countryman Mr. Schurz. It frees us from the hitherto disgraceful and despotic tutelage of the Nativists.
The Republican party has as candidates men whom one can trust. Abe Lincoln has worked his way up from a farmer to the rank of a legislator and is universally honored and respected. He is the true man for the Northwest; his origins are among the people, thus he is a man of the people; he understands the shortcomings and neglect by the government in regard to the Northwest, and next March, having ascended the Capitol steps, he will know where aid and reforms are necessary.
He is the man we have long needed. Up until now the presidential office has been occupied for the most part by puppets and cold-fish aristocrats who puffed themselves up and behaved like absolute monarchs; those who fawned before the thrones of Europe as well as before the money and n***** barons at home, and in the process forgot the interests of the people! Many of these men had previously resided at foreign courts and learned there what they had perhaps not yet known: systematic diplomatic humbug and the fleecing of the people.
The honorable judge Mr. Douglas himself has given Democratic guest lectures at various European courts, preaching the blessings of slavery in the United States for the amusement of those who rule by Gods grace and their consorts. Yet he was not received, as he is here, as the Little Giant, but rather laughed off as a political-diplomatic buffoon.
The grand duke Alexander, now Czar of Russia, took Douglas's Human Flesh Trade story to heart such that soon after his ascension to the throne he began to end the institution of serfdom so as to eliminate any suspicion of having endorsed an American N***** Baron System.
Newspapers affiliated with the Democratic Party accuse Lincoln of having split fence rails in his younger years; all the more respect for Mr. Lincoln for having earned his bread honorably. Better to eat one's bread by the sweat of one's brow than, as an idler and parasite, to play the great man at the cost of the nation.
Germans of America! Read the Republican platform with care, consider and discuss it with knowledgeable men. Then you will most certainly discover that foreigners have been considered in this platform and are regarded as free citizens.
Don't listen to these Democratic hucksters und political capitalizers: they make all sorts of promises to you now because they plan to use you as electoral cattle. Once they've reached their goal, then they'll give you a swift kick, just as they have always done.
Germans! Consider carefully that when you vote the Democratic ticket, you're also helping to spread slavery, and what German can be so conscienceless and behave so senselessly as to damn a fellow human, even one of another skin color, to slavery?
"Eternal infamy!" will one day be the cry of posterity: Germans, too, supported the accursed institution of slavery in the nineteenth century. Children and grandchildren will speak with indignation of their forebears and curse those who helped to open the free soil of the territories for slavery, thereby closing them off for free labor.
Your descendants will go hungry, for wherever slavery takes root, there remains no refuge for the poor free worker. Wise up, then, and provide for the well-being of your descendants and do your share to preserve a piece of free soil for them. Future generations--indeed, history itself--will rejoice and preserve your memory with gratitude.
Let "Down with the spread of slavery" be every Germans watchword and "Freedom for All" his rallying cry.
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Be it resolved that we, the delegated representatives of the Republican voters of the U.S., gathered in convention, discharging the duties that are due our constituents and our country, agree to the following declaration.
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14) That the national Republican party is and will be against any alteration of the naturalization laws and against any and all legislation by which the rights of citizenship that have until now been extended to immigrants of foreign lands might be limited or altered. We are for the complete and effective protection of the rights of all classes of citizens, regardless of whether they are native or naturalized, or at home or abroad.
The question now is whether the Union can best be preserved by war or by peace.
We say that this can only happen through peace, through concession, and a conciliatory spirit. Many injustices and unneeded provocations would have best been omitted on both sides; indeed, we are not beyond stating that the Republican party conjured up the storm due to its hostile attitude toward the South.
Yet the question of who is to blame is for the moment of secondary importance. The one and only issue at hand is whether we should withhold support from the government, which was elected in accordance with the Constitution to which we have sworn loyalty.
We believe not.
Although we may criticize the administration, although we may believe that it did not do everything that could have been done to preserve peace, the government was elected in accordance with the Constitution, and so long as it does not act against the same, we are obligated by oath to support it, albeit with a heavy heart.
We protest against the war, and we will exercise our modest influence in favor of peace as well as in favor of unequivocally guaranteeing the South its constitutional rights, so that in the future there can be no doubt that, if the majority of the population in the Southern states approves secession, they will receive diplomatic recognition. Beyond that, however, we can and will not go. If the intent is to topple the federal government itself, as now seems to be the case, then we shall remind ourselves that we swore loyalty to the constitution and conduct ourselves accordingly.
]]>Civil War is upon us. People's passions are kindled, all party distinctions fall away, and everyone must adopt a firm stance. Whatever our differences of opinion before, we are all in agreement that this Union, which took us in under its protective banner, must be preserved at all cost, if at all possible. In this, we believe all who have sworn loyalty to the Constitution are united.
The question now is whether the Union can best be preserved by war or by peace.
We say that this can only happen through peace, through concession, and a conciliatory spirit. Many injustices and unneeded provocations would have best been omitted on both sides; indeed, we are not beyond stating that the Republican party conjured up the storm due to its hostile attitude toward the South.
Yet the question of who is to blame is for the moment of secondary importance. The one and only issue at hand is whether we should withhold support from the government, which was elected in accordance with the Constitution to which we have sworn loyalty.
We believe not.
Although we may criticize the administration, although we may believe that it did not do everything that could have been done to preserve peace, the government was elected in accordance with the Constitution, and so long as it does not act against the same, we are obligated by oath to support it, albeit with a heavy heart.
We protest against the war, and we will exercise our modest influence in favor of peace as well as in favor of unequivocally guaranteeing the South its constitutional rights, so that in the future there can be no doubt that, if the majority of the population in the Southern states approves secession, they will receive diplomatic recognition. Beyond that, however, we can and will not go. If the intent is to topple the federal government itself, as now seems to be the case, then we shall remind ourselves that we swore loyalty to the constitution and conduct ourselves accordingly.
Democracy is not yet dead!
Dubuque is healthy through and through!
Northern and Southern Rebellion conquered in a single day!
Last Monday was a truly glorious day for Dubuque. The southern rebels received their coup-de-grace with the falling of Richmond, and in Dubuque the enemies of the glorious old Union, the Abolitionists, were so thoroughly decimated that they will scarcely have the courage to raise their head ever again.
Secession in Richmond and Abolition in Dubuque, these two enemies of the Union were defeated on a single day.
The entire Democratic ticket for city offices was elected by a wide margin. Every ward produced majorities for the Democrats, something that hasn't occurred in Dubuque for the past ten years. Such a glorious result must certainly please each true friend of the Union, each Democrat.
Last Saturday we wrote in a short extra: Let us erect a bulwark against the prevailing corruption and crooked dealings in Dubuque at least, let us exclaim to the northern and southern enemies of the Union a thundering "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further." And behold, we succeeded beyond all expectations. Much credit is due to our fellow German citizens for this glowing result; they declared themselves against the old party humbug in great numbers, and have proven by their actions that they know how to distinguish semblance from truth.
]]>A GLORIOUS DAY!
Democracy is not yet dead!
Dubuque is healthy through and through!
Northern and Southern Rebellion conquered in a single day!
Last Monday was a truly glorious day for Dubuque. The southern rebels received their coup-de-grace with the falling of Richmond, and in Dubuque the enemies of the glorious old Union, the Abolitionists, were so thoroughly decimated that they will scarcely have the courage to raise their head ever again.
Secession in Richmond and Abolition in Dubuque, these two enemies of the Union were defeated on a single day.
The entire Democratic ticket for city offices was elected by a wide margin. Every ward produced majorities for the Democrats, something that hasn't occurred in Dubuque for the past ten years. Such a glorious result must certainly please each true friend of the Union, each Democrat.
Last Saturday we wrote in a short extra: Let us erect a bulwark against the prevailing corruption and crooked dealings in Dubuque at least, let us exclaim to the northern and southern enemies of the Union a thundering "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further." And behold, we succeeded beyond all expectations. Much credit is due to our fellow German citizens for this glowing result; they declared themselves against the old party humbug in great numbers, and have proven by their actions that they know how to distinguish semblance from truth.
Peace, peace--which we had always sought to maintain, and the establishment of which was our continuous goal for four years--blessed peace finally appears near, nearer than ever before. The vast bulk of the regular army of the South has been defeated. On Sunday, the 9th of April, towards 4 o'clock in the afternoon, General Lee accepted the conditions for surrender that General Grant had stipulated, declaring that he and his entire army were prepared to lay down their arms. The correspondence exchanged between the two generals is as follows [the wording below is based upon the original correspondence in English]:
To Lieutenant-General Grant, Commander of the United States Army:
April 9, 1865
General! I received your note of this morning on the picket-line, whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposal of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army. I now ask an interview in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that purpose.
R. E. Lee, General
To General R. E. Lee, Commander of the Confederate Army:
Appomattox Court-House
April 9
In accordance with the substance of my letter to you of the 8th instant, I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit:
U.S. Grant, Lieutenant-General
]]>PEACE ! PEACE !
and
UNION !
Peace, peace--which we had always sought to maintain, and the establishment of which was our continuous goal for four years--blessed peace finally appears near, nearer than ever before. The vast bulk of the regular army of the South has been defeated. On Sunday, the 9th of April, towards 4 o'clock in the afternoon, General Lee accepted the conditions for surrender that General Grant had stipulated, declaring that he and his entire army were prepared to lay down their arms. The correspondence exchanged between the two generals is as follows [the wording below is based upon the original correspondence in English]:
To Lieutenant-General Grant, Commander of the United States Army:
April 9, 1865
General! I received your note of this morning on the picket-line, whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposal of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army. I now ask an interview in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that purpose.
R. E. Lee, General
To General R. E. Lee, Commander of the Confederate Army:
Appomattox Court-House
April 9
In accordance with the substance of my letter to you of the 8th instant, I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit:
U.S. Grant, Lieutenant-General