Part 30
Jaeger, Pastor, Murdered for Being German 67
Jay, Mrs. William, Leads Campaign to Suppress German Music 64
Jefferson, Thomas, on German Immigrants 141 On English Hyphenates 140 On Virginia Blue Laws 184 On Longing for an English King 24
Jones, John Paul; English View of 139
K
Kapp, Frederich, History of American People 102-4
King, Senator, of Utah, Bill Canceling Charter of the German American Alliance 69
Knobel, Caspar, Captures Jefferson Davis 142
Knownothing Party 142
Koerner, Gustav, on Political Character of German Americans 143
Krech, Alvin W.
Kudlich, Dr. Hans, the Peasant Emancipator 143
L
Langlotz, Prof. C. A., Author of “Old Nassau” 145
Lee, Lighthouse Harry 148
Lehman, Philip Theodore, William Penn’s Secretary 145
Lehmann, Frederick William 145
Leisler, Jacob, First Martyr to Cause of American Independence 145
Lieber, Francis 146 Founder, “Encyclopedia Americana” 147 Legal Advisor to Lincoln Government; Author of “Instructions for the Armies in the Field” 148
Lincoln, Abraham, of German Extraction? 148
London “Times” in 1862 113
Long, Frances L., One of Custer’s Sergeants and Survivor Greeley Arctic Expedition 152
Lossing, Benson J., on Our Debt to France 77 On Jacob Leisler 146 On Conrad Weiser 245
Lowell, James Russell; American People Not English 17
Ludwig, Christian, Purveyor of the Revolutionary Army 153
M
Macaulay, Lord, on German Immigrant Settlers 104 On George III 21
Marix, Rear Admiral Adolph 156
Massow, Baron von, Member of Mosby’s Brigade 156
McCarthy, Justin, on Cruise of the Alabama; Recognition of Confederacy 111 On Schleswig-Holstein Question 210
McCumber, Senator, Asks President About Our Entrance Into the War 56
McNeill, Walter S., on German Constitution 155 On German Civil Law 157
Memminger, Christoph Gustav, Secretary of the Treasury in the Confederate Cabinet 157
Menken, S. Stanwood, Organizer and President National Security League 171-2
Mergenthaler, Ottmar, Inventor of the Linotype Machine 157
Military Establishments of the Warring Nations in 1914 157
Minnewit, Peter, Purchased Island of Manhattan from Indians 158
Missouri, How Kept in the Union 159
Montesquieu, on Birth of Liberty 154
Morgan, J. Pierpont 158 Related to Viscount Lewis Harcourt 159 Accused in Congress of Controlling Press 190
Muhlenberg, Heinrich Melchior, Founder Lutheran Church in America; Frederick August, First Speaker House of Representative; Peter, General; Career of 161
N
Nagel, Charles, Secretary of Commerce and Labor 169
Nast, Thomas, America’s Greatest Cartoonist; Kills the Tweed Ring; Grant’s Opinion of 169
National Security League; Objects of, Backers of 169 Representative Cooper of Wisconsin on 170 Interference with New York Public Schools 171 How Organized; Disbursements by 172 Denounced in Congress 171-2
Neutrality; President Wilson on, in Mexican Relations 172
New Ulm Massacre 173
Northcliffe, Lord; Control of American Newspapers 174
O
Ohio; Germans First to Settle, First White Child in 107
Orth, Charles D., President National Security League 171-2
Osterhaus, General Peter Joseph, Record in Union Army 174 His Pension Canceled 175
Overman Bill 54
P
Palatines, the; Sanford H. Cobb on 104 Judge Benton Quoted 105 Declaration of Independence Antedates that of Mecklenburg 175 Its Signers 176-7
Panin, Count Nikolai I, Russian Premier, Bribed by Frederick the Great 85
Pastorius, Franz Daniel, Founder of Germantown 121, 177 Agitation Against Unveiling of Monument to 179 Author of First Protest Against Slavery 180
Pathfinders, German American 191
Penn, William, and Crefeld Immigrants 121 His Mother a Dutch Woman 193
Pennypacker, Ex-Governor Samuel Whitaker 121
Pilgrim Society 193
Pitcher, Molly; Famous Heroine of German Descent 190
Poison Gas; First Used at Colenso; French Testimony 192
Prager, Robert B., Lynched by Anti-German Mob 67
Press Attacked in Congress 190
Propaganda in the United States 185 Vincente Blasco Ibanez, French Agent 185 Louis Tracy, English Agent; How Conducted 186 French Described by “The Dial;” Andre Cheradame 187 Overman Committee; Gertrude Atherton 188
Prussia, First Treaty with 229
Prussian Constitution, Praised by President Wilson 156
Puritans; Land in 1620; Great Migration; Freemen; Hang Quakers and Witches; Blue Laws 184
Putnam, George Haven, Repudiates the American Revolution; Proposes to Rewrite Text Books of American History in Public Schools 22 Regrets American Independence from England 23
Q
Quakers Hanged in Bay Colony 184
Quitman, General J. A., in Mexican War 194
R
Rassieur, Leo 205
Reis, Philipp, Inventor of the Telephone 139
Representation in Congress 194
Rhodes, Cecil; Text of Secret Will to Reclaim the United States 195 Sinclair Kennedy, on Plan 196-7 Whitelaw Reid, on Unity with English Government 196 Andrew Carnegie, on British-American Union; Rhodes Scholarships 197 General Pershing’s Statement; James M. Beck’s Statement 199 Admiral Sims’s Guildhall Speech; New York “Globe” Quotes Ambassador Page 200 Prof. Roland G. Usher, on Secret Understanding; Colonial Secretary Chamberlain Quoted 201 Joseph H. Choate’s Toast to the King 202
Ringling, Al 203, 207
Rittenhouse, David, First Great American Scientist 204
Roebling, John August, Famous Bridge Builder 205
Roosevelt, Theodore 205
Russia Approached by England for Alliance Against the Colonies 85
S
Sauer, Christopher, Famous Colonial Printer 217
Scheffauer, Herman George, American Poet 215
Schell, Johann Christian: An Episode of the Early Border 215
Schleswig-Holstein, “One and Indivisible” 209 Wish to be German; Revolution Against Denmark, 1848 210 Cradle of Purest Germanism 211 Total Danish-Speaking Population in Germany 212
Schley, Admiral Winfield Scott; Rescue of Lt. Greeley 216
Schreiner, George A., on American Passport Discriminations 66 On Use of Poison Gas at Colenso 192 On Lusitania Sinking 242
Schurz, Carl, on German Revolution of 1848 214 On German Element in the United States 102
Scraps of Paper 208
Secret Treaties 89
Seward, Secretary William H., Expresses Thanks to Prussia 112
Slavery, First Protest Against 180
Starving Germany; Result of, and Casualties 217
State Department Note of Assurance, February 8, 1917 230
Steinmetz, Charles P., Famous Electrician 217
Steuben, Baron Frederick von 220
Sutter, the Romance of a California Pioneer 225 First to Hoist American Flag to Stay; Founds New Switzerland on Sacramento River; Alvarado Land Grant 225 Sides with Santa Anna; Lays Out Town of Sutterville, now Sacramento; Visited by Major Fremont; Hoists the American Flag on His Fort; Gold Discovered on His Ranch by Marshall 226 Sutter Ruined; Dies Poor in Pennsylvania; Tribute to 227
“Swordmaker of the Confederacy” 227
T
Taft, William H., on Religious Intolerance 185 Praises Kaiser 208
“Times,” London, Denounces United States 113 Advocates British Propaganda in the United States 24
Titled Americans 27
Tolstoy on American Liberty 228
Tracy, Louis, Head of English Propaganda Bureau 186
Treaties of 1799 and 1828, with Germany 229-30
Treaty, Commercial, with Germany, and How Observed; President John Quincy Adams on First Treaty; Treaties of 1799-1828 229 State Department Assures Foreign Residents 230 Alien Custodianship Aired in Congress; Senator Hitchcock’s Momentous Statement; President Wilson’s Remarks of April 2, 1917; List of Persons Whose Property Was Seized 232 Property of Wives of Aliens Seized 233
Tryon County Committee of Safety 175
U
Usher, Prof. Roland G., on “Understanding” with England 200-2
V
Viereck, George Sylvester 71, 92
Villard, Henry 236
Virginia Blue Laws 184
Vote on War in Congress 236
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War of 1870-71 240 War Lies Repudiated by English Paper 241
Washington’s Body Guard 244 Tribute to Germans 245
Weiser, Conrad, Pioneer and Statesman 245
West, Col. E. R., Justifies Execution of Edith Cavell 46
Wetzel, Lou, Indian Fighter 246
Whittier, John Greenleaf, Poem on Germantown Settlement 180
Williams, Deantor John Sharp, on Fighting Canada 76
Wilson, Woodrow, President; on Our Debt to France 78 On His Fourteen Points 88 Friendship for German People 90 German Intellectualism, 1917 and 1919 155 Praises Prussian Constitution 156 On “Best Practices of Nations” 172
Wirt, William, Famous Jurist and Author 247
Wirtz, Captain Henry, of Andersonville Prison 247
Wistar, Caspar 247
Z
Zane, Elizabeth, Early Border Heroine 248
Zeisberger, David, Founds First Christian Community in Ohio 107
Zenger, John Peter, and the Freedom of the Press 250
Ziegler, David, Revolutionary Soldier and Indian Fighter 248
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
The following corrections have been made in the text:
Section: Alsace-Lorraine, paragraph starting: Under date of January 17, 1917,... - ‘inferference’ replaced with ‘interference’ (without the interference of any foreign)
Section: Alsace-Lorraine, paragraph starting: After this, who can be scandalized.... - ‘liberatarian’ replaced with ‘libertarian’ (Does M. Clemenceau, that “old libertarian”)
Section: Americans Not An English People, paragraph starting: In order to estimate the full.... - ‘have’ replaced with ‘gave’ (Romans gave the designation)
Section: Americans Not An English People, paragraph starting: In a like manner Charles E. Hughes,... - ‘spech’ replaced with ‘speech’ (in a speech at Mount Vernon)
Section: American School Children and English Propaganda, paragraph starting: The feelings and prejudices.... - ‘boks’ replaced with ‘books’ (on text books and histories)
Section: Atrocities, paragraph starting: The following correspondence.... - ‘correspondenece’ replaced with ‘correspondence’ (following correspondence will speak)
Section: Atrocities, paragraph starting: The late James G. Blaine quoted.... - ‘Malmsbury’ replaced with ‘Malmesbury’ (Blaine quoted Lord Malmesbury)
Section: Baralong, paragraph starting: An English pirate ship commanded.... - ‘Nocosian’ replaced with ‘Nicosian’ (swam alongside of the “Nicosian”) - ‘tradegy’ replaced with ‘tragedy’ (history of the tragedy first came)
Section: Illegal, Ineffective and Indefensible Blockades, paragraph starting: But the State Department surrendered.... - ‘Scandanavia’ replaced with ‘Scandinavia’ (commerce of Holland and Scandinavia)
Section: Illegal, Ineffective and Indefensible Blockades, paragraph starting: The point is that future wars.... - ‘compells’ replaced with ‘compels’ (it compels us to compact our)
Section: Dutch and German, paragraph starting: In the history of early American.... - ‘Minnewitt’ replaced with ‘Minnewit’ (Peter Minnewit, the first regular governor)
Section: Espionage Act, Vote on, paragraph starting: The actual count showed.... - ‘resul’ replaced with ‘result’ (showed the result as follows)
Section: The “Fourteen Points, paragraph starting: “We already know there were.... - ‘Dalmation’ replaced with ‘Dalmatian’ (conceding to Italy the Dalmatian coast)
Section: German-American Captains of Industry, paragraph starting: John D. Rockefeller and John.... - ‘imigrants’ replaced with ‘immigrants’ (descendants of German immigrants.) - ‘Rhennish’ replaced with ‘Rhenish’ (from Bonnefeld, Rhenish Prussia,)
Section: The German Element in American Life, paragraph starting: Pennsylvania is sometimes called.... - ‘Heidelburg’ replaced with ‘Heidelberg’ (as the tourist visits Heidelberg)
Section: The German Element in American Life, paragraph starting: “Better far than a batch of.... - ‘feed’ replaced with ‘feet’ (nearly eight feet wide,)
Section: The German Element in American Life, paragraph starting: In 1734 a number of German Lutheran.... - ‘parishoners’ replaced with ‘parishioners’ (among whose parishioners was Jefferson Davis.)
Section: Germany and England During the Civil War, table starting: Sir Henry de Hington, Bart.... - ‘Gregoty’ replaced with ‘Gregory’ (W. H. Gregory, M. P.)
Section: Germans in Civil War, paragraph starting: Kaufmann, in analyzing these.... - ‘volunters’ replaced with ‘volunteers’ (first call for volunteers.)
Section: Germans in Civil War, paragraph starting: Adolf Buschbeck, Brigadier General.... - ‘Gettsyburg’ replaced with ‘Gettysburg’ (fought gallantly at Gettysburg)
Section: Germans in Civil War, paragraph starting: Hubert Dilger, a former artillery.... - ‘Bushbeck’ replaced with ‘Buschbeck’ for consistency (in the defense of Buschbeck’s brigade)
Section: Germans in Civil War, paragraph starting: Alexander von Schimmelpfennig,... - ‘Schimmelpfenning’ replaced with ‘Schimmelpfennig’ (Alexander von Schimmelpfennig)
Section: Germans in the Confederate Army, paragraph starting: Among the German-born officers.... - ‘Hanovarian’ replaced with ‘Hanoverian’ (Reichard; former Hanoverian officer) - ‘Hannover’ replaced with ‘Hanover’ (Wise of Virginia; born in Hanover) - ‘filbuster’ replaced with ‘filibuster’ (leader of a filibuster party)
Section: Germantown Settlement, paragraph starting: The three Op den Graeffs.... - ‘Thones’ replaced with ‘Thonas’ (the son of Thonas Kunders)
Section: Hartford Convention, paragraph starting: In no section of the country.... - ‘proclaimng’ replaced with ‘proclaiming’ (secession by proclaiming that)
Section: Hereshoffs and Cramps, paragraph starting: Who in the great yachting world.... - ‘Herreshoffs’ replaced with ‘Hereshoffs’ (has not heard of the Hereshoffs,)
Section: Illiteracy, paragraph starting: As a related element of.... - illegible numbers in table replaced with ‘?’ (Denmark 0.0?%) (Sweden 0.0?%)
Section: Indians, Tories and the German Settlements, paragraph starting: During 1779 the Schoharie and.... - ‘Genessee’ replaced with ‘Genesee’ (as far as the Genesee Valley,)
Section: Indians, Tories and the German Settlements, paragraph starting: In this manner he learned,... - ‘bloodpath’ replaced with ‘bloodbath’ (instituted a perfect bloodbath.)
Section: “Kultur” in Brief Statistical Form, paragraph starting: A brief statistical abstract of.... - ‘Noble’ replaced with ‘Nobel’ (Nobel prizes for scientific achievements)
Section: Kudlich, Dr. Hans, the Peasant Emancipator, paragraph starting: The name of Dr. Hans Kudlich.... - ‘Hobokon’ replaced with ‘Hoboken’ (and died at Hoboken, N. J.,)
Section: Kudlich, Dr. Hans, the Peasant Emancipator, paragraph starting: He was born in Lohenstein,... - ‘sudents’ replaced with ‘students’ (the students’ revolutionary movement,)
Section: Lincoln of German Descent, paragraph starting: The evidence in favor of Lincoln’s.... - ‘lond’ replaced with ‘long’ (tombstones of long-dead ancestors,)
Section: Long, Francis L., paragraph starting: Born at Wurtemberg, Germany.... - ‘Wurtemburg’ replaced with ‘Wurtemberg’ (Born at Wurtemberg, Germany.)
Section: Ideals of Liberty, paragraph starting: While we were at war.... - ‘thy’ replaced with ‘they’ (since they speak rather well)
Section: Ideals of Liberty, paragraph starting: Mr. Walter S. McNeill tells us.... - ‘McNeil’ replaced with ‘McNeill’ (Mr. Walter S. McNeill tells us)
Section: Morgan, J. Pierpont, paragraph starting: American banker and financier, - ‘rubel’ replaced with ‘ruble’ (the famous Russian ruble)
Section: Muhlenberg, Johann Gabriel Peter, paragraph starting: The following interesting story.... - ‘Daughers’ replaced with ‘Daughters’ (Historian of the Daughters of the)
Section: New Ulm Massacre, paragraph starting: New Ulm, a settlement of Germans.... - ‘Gueur’ replaced with ‘Sueur’ (and from Le Sueur, still more remote.)
Section: Franz Daniel Pastorius and German..., paragraph starting: Three famous families issued from.... - ‘Saurs’ replaced with ‘Sauers’ (and the Sauers,) - ‘Saur’ replaced with ‘Sauer’ (of whom Christopher Sauer)
Section: Franz Daniel Pastorius and German..., paragraph starting: There is some analogy between.... - ‘bigoty’ replaced with ‘bigotry’ (conditions of oppression and bigotry)
Section: Franz Daniel Pastorius and German..., paragraph starting: American colonial history reveals.... - ‘American’ replaced with ‘America’ (settlers in America as foremost) - ‘American’ replaced with ‘Americans’ (which Americans have not learned) - ‘Annabaptists’ replaced with ‘Anabaptists’ (we must look to the Anabaptists,)
Section: Propaganda in the United States, paragraph starting: By 1916 the simple installation.... - ‘patriotiotic’ replaced with ‘patriotic’ (support for patriotic activities)
Section: Rhodes’ Secret Will and Scholarships..., paragraph starting: To its fatal operation may be.... - ‘centennary’ replaced with ‘centenary’ (celebrate the centenary of English)
Section: Rittenhouse, David, paragraph starting: Of the origin of the first great.... - ‘Ruttinghausen’ replaced with ‘Rittinghausen’ (William Rittenhouse (Rittinghausen),)
Section: Roebling, John August, paragraph starting: One of the greatest engineers.... - ‘Amerca’ replaced with ‘America’ (and America’s leading bridge builder.)