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encroachments of the English language 
upon the pulpit. The Germans in 
America, according to this statement, 
evince much piety and religious zeal. 
The preachers complain that the bre- 
thren from their native country, who 
have arrived within the last thirty 
years, are deficient in this respect, and 
set their faces against preaching three 
times-a day. His remark that there is 
no theological faculty at the American 
universities, is singularly unfortunate, 
since it has been perhaps the fault of 
these establishments, a fault, if it be 
one, growing out of the nature of things, 
to have given a disproportionate share 
of attention to theological education. 
M. de Fiirstenwirther, whom we 
have observed in a contemporary Ger- 
man paper, the Deutscher Freund, 
published by Dr. Scheffer of New 
York, to be charged with a little aristo- 
eratical feeling, seems to hint with no 
great complacency at the political no- 
tions of his countrymen in America. 
The German in America, particularly 
in the country, distinguishes himself by a 
trait of character not known at home, and 
for which he is there not thought caleulat- 
ed, 1 mean as a zealous democrat, though 
stillas a quiet citizen. I cannot but add, 
that this new trait in his character, by 
being associated with certain other old and 
permanent features, is far from rendering 
him more amiable. The Hessians who, ia 
the war of the revolution, served in the 
English army, and of whom the greater 
part remained in America, are said, in 
this respect, to distinguish themselves in 
a peculiar manner by their strong demo- 
cratic politics, rudeness, coarseness and 
obstinacy. 
M. de Firstenwarther, afier a resi- 
dence of four months in America, to 
which he probably came unacquainted 
with the language, as we infer trom the 
delight with which he scatters about 
his English words when his own tongue 
affords those which are perfectly syno- 
nymous, and after having travelled 
throughout the whole of America from 
Philadelphia to Washington, a distance 
of full one hundred and fifty geographi- 
cal miles, closes his report in the follow- 
ing highly pungent and philosophical 
strain. 
With such advantages, on the part of the 
United States, which every impartial man 
will recognize with me, and with all the 
facility, particularly of the material life, I 
cannot conceal some defects and dark sides. 
In this country there is no idea, nay not a 
distant suspicion, of a higher and finer ex- 
German Emigration to America. 
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istence, at least on this earth. There isa 
want of every thing which can adorn and 
ennoble it, of every variety of better en- 
joyment and entertainment. Coarse mate- 
rialism and interest are the character and 
leading principal of the inhabitants: —A 
want of sociality, contemptible pride, re- 
serve, and coarseness, discover themselves 
in the multitude, and repel the European 
of education and feeling. Such an one will 
of course feel himself at first extremely 
unhappy and solitary in this country; it 
cannot please him. Although there be 
much in Europe, that he cannot and ought 
not to praise, comparisons, which he will 
have daily occasion to make, will force from 
him the silent or open confession, that still 
much js better there. If the Americans 
are justly proud of their civil freedom, and 
of their freedom in thinking, speaking, 
and printing, and in the social life, they 
still know not that higher freedom of the 
soul, which is to be found only in Europe, 
and I say it boldly, most chundantly in 
Germany. With all their freedom, they 
are still slaves of their narrow views, of 
their ignorance of every thing but what is 
local and practical, and of their national 
prejudices. 
Such are the impressions of all on their 
arrival in this country, such are the coin- 
ciding feelings and judgments of all, even 
long after their arrival. By degrees only 
do they get used to the country, after they 
have formed to themselves a sphere of 
their own, or after their gradually awaken- 
ing pride as free citizens extinguishes the 
recollections of the advantages of their 
native land. 
On the first perusal of these spirited 
remarks, we were, to use an expressive 
vulgarism, at a loss to know what the 
author would be at. We felt, to be sure, 
a becoming sympathy with M. de Fiir- 
stenwarther, in the distressing neces- 
sity in which we supposed he found 
himself of making a flourish, and soften- 
ing to himself the bitter pill of * freedom 
in thinking, speaking, printing, and 
social life.’ which must have been so 
oppressive to a native of the Palatinate. 
Still, however, we did not exactly un- 
derstand why America should. pay so 
heavily the penalty of his annoyance; 
when it would have been quite as elo- 
quent and sentimental to abuse the 
French or the English. 
Did we not fear that our comment 
had already outrun the importance of 
the text, we should hint at the state of 
things in Germany, disclosed by this 
prodigious emigration. We passed, vot 
a year ago, through the kingdom of 
Wirtemberg, and along the banks of 
the 
