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difficulties, and the accumulated labors of these collectors 
and students have made known to the world a great part, 
probably the greater part, of the native flora of the western 
United States. 
The half-century succeeding the Napoleonic wars was a 
period of great unrest in Germany. Napoleon’s policy had 
tended to break down the smaller German principalities and 
to arouse a feeling of resistance and unity among the various 
political groups speaking the German tongue, while the suc- 
cess of the French people in their several popular insurrec- 
tions inspired their neighbors also with the hope of freedom. 
This desire for political rights and national unity led to the 
uprising of 1830 and the revolution of 1848, and finally re- 
sulted in giving the Germans a constitution and a united 
Fatherland. Yet, while this struggle was going on, there 
was a large and continuous stream of German emigration, 
greatly increased after each political disturbance. America 
received the greater part of these exiles, who settled chiefly 
about Milwaukee, St. Louis and Cincinnati. 
This constant absorption by the Anglo-Saxon race of the 
strongest and most independent of the German blood finally 
became a source of solicitude to those who had the good of 
the Fatherland at heart and led in 1844 to the formation of 
a company of twenty-five German princes and nobles entitled 
the ‘Verein zum Schutze deutscher Auswanderer in Texas,” 
usually called the Adelsverein or Mainz Company, which had 
for its object “‘To conduct the German emigration, as far as 
possible, to a single favorable selected point, to assist the emi- 
grant upon his distant journey and in his new home and to 
work for strength therein, that a new home shall be secured 
for them beyond the sea;’* the evident intention being to 
Germanize Texas, then a republic with a small cosmopolitan 
population, and to keep the emigrants in touch with the 
Fatherland. 
Prince Carl zu Solms-Braunfels, whose speeches and writ- 
* Roemer, “‘Texas.’’ 20-41.—Penniger’s ‘‘ Geschichte des Adelsverein.””— 
Tex. State Hist. Assoc. Quarterly. 3; 33-40.—Kuno Damian von Schutz, 
“Texas Rathgeber fiir Auswanderer nach diesem Lande.’’ Wiesbaden. 
1846. pp. 135-232.—Solms-Braunfels, ‘‘Texas.’”” Frankfort. 1846. 
