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is confounded in treatment with the blacks, 
nay is often treated worse. 
The following pretty tender question 
in our anthor’s instructions— Are the 
Germans esteemed in America?’ is an- 
swered in a calm, impartial way, which 
we are sure will please our readers. 
Is the German esteemed in America? 
Personally he is esteemed, like others, 
without reference to their descent or na- 
tion, when heis rich or distinguished for 
public services. Schneider (Snyder,) the 
last governor of Pennsylvania, was of 
German origin. The path to offices and 
posts of honour is open to every German. 
He is in general esteemed for his industry, 
frugality, love of home, for his honesty, 
and his peaceable temper; qualities which 
still characterise the German and his de- 
scendants in America, particularly the far- 
mers. Pennsylvania owes to the German 
her universally acknowledged superiority 
over all the other states in respect to agri- 
culture. The German emigrant is more 
welcome than the Irishman or the French- 
man. The last particularly are no favour- 
ites with the Americans. Personally they 
are disliked, notwithstanding the public 
sympathy once felt in the fortunes and 
principles of the French nation. 
But notwithstanding this, a great under- 
valuing of the German name and nation is 
evident in America. ‘The Americans, them- 
selves too young to deserve the name of a 
nation, possess nevertheless a national 
pride beyond that of any people in the old 
world, and look down with disdain on those 
(?) from whom the first germ of their im- 
provement came. Of none however have 
the Americans a poorer opinion than of the 
Germans. The main reason of this is per- 
haps the political insignificance of the Ger- 
man nation, and the consequent want of 
conscious importance and of arrogance of 
its individuals; to which cause also it is 
to be ascribed that so little justice is done 
to the Germans by the other European na- 
tions. With no land have the Americans 
had so few important relations, as with 
Germany. For waut of other means of in- 
formation, they judged of her from the de- 
gree of improvement, from the character, 
and the external appearance of the indivi- 
duals, whom they were accustomed to see 
landing on their shores, of whom the mass 
certainly was not calculated to give them a 
favourable opinion of their country. The 
number of Germans of education who have 
visited this country or settled in it was al- 
ways very small. It is finally undeniable, 
that the irregularities and abuses in the 
emigration of the last years, the wretched 
condition of the greater part of those who 
arrived here, and their still more wretched 
moral condition, tended highly tostrengthen 
these unfavourable impressions. 
German Emigration to America. 
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The emigration from Germany to 
Pennsylvania began very early. In 
the time of Penn, Germantown was 
founded by a colony of emigrants from 
Griesheim in the Palatinate. In 1717 
the emigration was so great, that the 
governor of the province expressed his 
apprehensions of the evil consequences 
which might result from having too 
many foreigners contiguous to each 
other; or, on the ether hand, too many 
scattered separately among the Indians. 
In 1754, there landed 5000 emigrants in 
Philadelphia; but we apprehend our 
author to have been misled by his au- 
thorities, when he supposes that half 
the population of Pennsylvania is Ger- 
man or of German descent. 
The German language is fast disap- 
pearing, particularly in the large towns, 
and no person is allowed to sit on a 
jury in Pennsylvania, who cannot un- 
derstand English. According to our 
author, the children of German parents 
are commonly ashamed of the country 
and language of their fathers, so that 
in the third generation, at the present 
day, the traces of their origin disappear. 
This disinclination is greater in the 
higher thau in the lower orders of so- 
ciety, and in this respect, says M. de 
Furstenwarther, the German society at 
Philadelphia is unworthy at least of its 
name, asa greater part of its members 
are desirous of having their transactions 
in English. 
Our author complains that the Ger- 
man language is not kept up in its 
purity in America, but is fast passing 
over into a corrupted English dialect. 
We doubt not this remark is just; but 
we take the liberty to observe that it 
comes with no very good grace from 
M. de Furstenwarther, whose own 
pages teem with words unacknowledged 
by the present standards of his native 
language. In the very sentence, in 
which he announces the transition of 
the German into a corrupt English dia- 
lect, he uses a barbarous word himself, 
and his pages are full of such terms as 
details, preker, supponirt, disponibel, 
progressive and nivellirend, none of 
which ought to find admittance into the 
works of a correct writer of the Ger- 
man language. There are nineteen 
German newspapers in Pennsylvania, 
and two in Ohio and Maryland. 
Under the head of religion, M. de 
Fiirstenwirther informs us, that there 
are eight hundred German churches in 
America. Hecomplains of the gradual 
encroachments 
