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Show , The Spirit Of. '48 ' fe Z : ' J Prsent In 1917 BBBBJ'j ! V-'''' : . fli" Frans Slgel, the eon of General BBBB,J Franz Slgel, famous as an exllo from H"' V, autocratic Germany in 1848-49 and H V'5 as one of the bravest of the brave In W-' ''i,n'-1 - the CW11 War, needs no Introductory k'tv 9te ifr. Slgel is now a resident ot H &,' wf Yofk 01t?' ud ,the following BBbt a H article is an extract from the New ll4 Ye Time. , - 5 K$m'fQ?'f I am aNfcfl-Wooded German, de- HBk&&. -I 4i tam Carman "Frty-4ght-Hfe I'W ;'"" '" u fithtr' OMeral'I-raaa Slg-Hjt- X:-Vl,;h4 hrtthera,'ai4 'my Maternal KiffYt -r. K- rftraMfathWwra driven froan Oer-iV Oer-iV p ';'?i - asaay on aeeeaat ef their partklpa- Ib"M .'"'.:..'' 1 " My foTbeara had all. sacrificed, the aVVBOfer fMj! .tOftha-.eauaeofUberty. Later they .grfeiV'" ftfer',tae Ualoa and Us fm; H W5i';--' 'M.Ue slaves. vOnly one, a! mr BK' rSJKrw UMa,cle.,yerTlelted Oerniany, !r;pp;,Mle,Ken. eve. went back H ; "M . ';In.AprU.li X ther enlisted H f '' . v ' lathesarae,rggle.f XaVlafre-H XaVlafre-H -4V- a)Uy'Tfrre4 to as oae(wio did K i V. ' ,n-m Mm'Beai4forthe-naUon In ttaterlsls of iB 1L '''- ,'-' - 'v'l;'he'tf at tMMa'tBMUMd the H fl&& fcWBlirjBW" ' whoM rexampl sBsBXf Vf ?' " 'H'W1 to mUtc4. w by, the IbVt ' !p - ,Mytt"f Oeman deeeentr What dur-Hl dur-Hl 4m ' 4 ' - W-Im life' time was his attitude on. BMSj' lHfajUemJhrtOAmerl;: bBWJv I '"':'' totMBt" H" we mm are to follow BBP'Xtlf ,wAifwJN would ied,.wkere does f -j ; V V WtlSeTnwth'IeadTt - Mr Bff"m Vrf'V- t .0fc'-Mle;vwas a edaeatedmaB, -r had f".-'l,;' " eWgraduatl frea a rf alid ca-BB ca-BB '1' '"' MlMo1 ,m Cariamhe Baden, be- Ef ' 4 ' Q a trained soldier, and had been Vp , at Heidelberg. HeknewaBd spoke Bl: ' 'BRgllsh before he came here, but ' r L-'' hla''GermahtaeceplvAever left him.'' B ', ' ': The 1nue ot purjhame was Oer- man, and I continue that custom in my own home. My wife speaks no Gorman, but our boy and I speak nothing but German together.' I well remember that my father told me to speak English with him' In-public, because It was" an Insult to other cltliens to speak -,1a their presence a language that they dld not under-' stand. Oace I took hiss to a public function at ay college; this. professor profess-or of German, my Ufa long friend, when he met sy father,. ln a room full, of tler visitors, addresMd him In Oerwan, hlnkiag U, please ,hlV But the .reply, same 'l Engilsh'and the; prof esear at one aeoe'siaedated himself to the change. '' , rrantel Slgel knew the' Constitution Constitu-tion of , the; Unttodf SUtea and? what It meant tor the righto efliumanKy long btorehe eametorthls'coRntry. and he luiW, It'shetferthaa many Americana who were bora anddted kere. His' passion was the liberty otman. Whoa he',revolted against the Government of Badea he knew the goal ,he wa; salmlng to reach. As adjutant general sunder the commander com-mander of tho .Badea revolutionists, Ldwig?.MUrelawakl. a -Pole - who spoke ito aecmaa;.he himself prob-abV,wrtejaas",Order prob-abV,wrtejaas",Order of Ue. day! dated 'Headdtiarters, Rastatt, Jun 27. .184,V iwhlch,1 Aanga torn my wallJt. Is addressed to. the xevolui tlonary: army Jinvcamp.at . that fortress; for-tress; and concludes r ' a' "The.illmlt'ofour eampU the boundary between the traitors tond the defenders otGerraany Freedom or slavery let that be the motto "that shall reeouadin thenars; ot the enemy fdom the throats of 20,000 determined men."f I have also hanging on my wall! as W fatherhad'lt hanging on his wall an long as I can remember, a list ot 28 of his brothers In arms subsequently captured, condemned, and shot as traitors, entitled "Germany's "Ger-many's martyre to Freedom." The remnant of the revolutionary army about 7,000 escaped under my father's leadership into Swltierland from the Prussians under Prince William, afterward the first German Emperor. Many of them andN their families emigrated to Araerlea. The unification of Germany under the German Emperor,, la 1871, was a realisation in part of tho hopes of the "Forty-eighters." That ttjpa not complete may be gathered 4y what my father wrote la an article In the InternatloaarMagaslne about four years later. He said ot Germaay that it was a great Empire and that the "long cherished hopes of her patriots and martyrs" were "realized, at least In a great measure," and that Germany was "steadily progressing pro-gressing In the path of political, social, so-cial, and religious reform." Again, In 1807, a tew years before his death, he wrote: "Germany will survive the storms of another century great questions Involving Its domestic and foreign policies, its social and economic conditions, con-ditions, its existing militarism, the status of its common people these must be nettled; they will and can not be avoided bby foreign operations, opera-tions, by new burdens imposed on the people, nor by the mere Ipse dixit ot ower." In 1902 the articles from which this Is taken were published In Mann helm, Baden, under the title "Denk-wurdtgkelton "Denk-wurdtgkelton aus den Jahren, 1848-1849)" 1848-1849)" but. tho above paragraph is omitted. Thero Is prophecy In those words that" may come true. Frans slgel had not In 50 years forgotten "militarism," "militar-ism," the, "status ot the common people." peo-ple." Germany was united, powerful, yes but there were questions "still to be settled," hot to be "avoided by foreign operations," by "new burdens to be Imposed on the people," by "the mere ipse dixit of power." Did he not In old ago dream" the dreams ot his youth, even yet-net.sallsedT Pld'he'not still cherisforHhe Oer-man Oer-man people, the "common" people, the hopea of 50 years ago, and look toward their ultimate realisation? And Is the present aot movlng'toward rack realisation? rDo,athe lfe of Frans: Sigelahow thathe had no hope for the release f the German people from tbVab-selutlsm tbVab-selutlsm he combated In youth T Would he not; now stand true to hi lifelong convictions, true to the Ideals Jtor which he fough oa two continents, conti-nents, true toHheiiWrlptlon upon his tombstolaced there at -h'ls written refjWst, 'Aa American Cltl-sea Cltl-sea and Sttdler?" Would he ( not array; himself on the side of America Ameri-ca In the straggle, to "make theword sate tor democracy?" His article, ea "The American Republic" in' the International In-ternational Magaatne, quoted abort concluded with the words: " r: "If thero are any wttoraaeoa ate-elally ate-elally appropriate to taeareattaa befr, .. -jtkorr aj? . tlsabjrktt-breather tlsabjrktt-breather the spirit of. the sUdfefd herilcv English' saUer at-tha battfVaf Trafalgaroaly.,thilto., Nelsoi'to cdr owata' American Repnblto eatWy mfm tq.do-hi. d-utr.!' $y :m(, Lfkaow he i4m&:tfk4 words today. JfefU In the.flres of taVcirll.War the North and South ware feldfdtlato one '"treat union "of 'States, " It tt fires of. the preseat'wir will weM the many.naUonalttlea la ourlttaeaaa Into one great, cohesive' unifft Vf nationalities, and burn'away tho vsU jectlves of nationalism from'Amrr can.'tlie'u will there be anatloaijl proflttha't will more 'than balance the terrible sactiflees we snail be inquired' in-quired' to make. v a? Mm vBp mm ot mv H iVigeaad hs compaatoas la the trig'gle;for liberty, stand? It we'afe 'tbtrueHo thm and the Ideals for which, they foughtJi we must stand today oa the side ov America Am-erica and freedom. aaiastahfGor man Government and autofflBjty We sall not the nflght against oar blood kindred, but, In' the broader -sense, )ire shall fight for them against a Governmeat ;not, of, their. own creation. crea-tion. We shall secure for, them" the right ot self government, the right of a people and not of a Kaiser to find Its place, ''in .the sun" the sua o f liberty and equality. If we are to emulate the example of Frans Slgel, what shall we do? Let him answer In the words ot the last public speech he ever made la German to, German Americans: "Politically, I am an American and nothlngelee; but I am proudjo he a German. , X jwouid consider , myself less than a mau were I to ferget the tremendous sacrifices made W the Immigrant Germans In defense of their new Fatherland. Shall this blood have flowMn vain Shall we now attack tktaJmerlca to which we gavo all wehU to give? This country coun-try is our country1; our Interests aro Its Interests; here we aro; here will our descendants be; here we shall stay. The Union, bow and forever." |
