Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1859 — The Germans—Honor to whom Honor is Due. [ARTICLE]

The Germans—Honor to whom Honor is Due.

[From the lowa City K.-qmblican.

7'hc glorious victory achieved in Johnson I county is due in no small part, to those noble i hearted, liberty-loving Germans who stood side by side with the American Republicans, in the late contest. The name of Democracy has cheated them long enough. There is no longer any music for the Germans in Democracy’s harp of many strings. Democracy has long enough required the German to belie bis instincts—his deepest convictions. As their Leut. Governor elect lately told them in Market Hall, the Democracy first required them to eat shoe pegs; finding them eating shop pegs, they commanded them to swollow'spikes; finding them ready to eat spikes, the Democracy concluded the Germans might be fed on pitchforks; but, to the great consternation and discomfiture of the Democracy, they found pitchforks distasteful, and illy suited to some German stomachs. 7’he harrow which the Democracy had in prejiaration for the German digestive organs, after the pitchforks shall have been converted into chyle, is not likely to become a very common article of political diet; for our political brethren, the Germans, are begining to learn and understand some of the laws of political dietetics, and they,most likely, wi 11 exclude the harrow from the bill of fare.

We are glad to chronicle the fact that a goodly number of our German fellow-citi-zens have washed their hands clean of this Negro Democracy—that they voted with and worked for the success of the Republican ticket. Many more, we are told, are making ready to leave the rotton hulk of Democracy. We will welcome them as brother citizens should ever welcome one another to the great and conquering family of tire free. picked up a feather in the road, and put it in his pocket; when night came, having no place to sleep but in a quarry, he carefully placed the feather under him. and laid down to rest his weary bones. In the morning he arose, and eyeing his bed, exclaimed: “Be jabers, if one feather is that hard, what would a whole bed-full be!” Qiy“A valuable slave man, belonging to Mr. Benton, of Sharpsburg, Md., hung himself off Monday night last, in consequence of his master, refusing to sell him to go South with a colored girl upon whom his heart’s affections had been placed. (tj’One of the liipior sellers of Lafeyette, Ind., has been served with twenty-eight indictments for selling liquor to minors.