Social conditions among the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth century, as revealed in the German newspapers published in America . CHAPTER VIII. POLITICAL IDEALS. ^y INCE the Pennsylvania Germans were thrifty and*^ peace loving they necessarily must have been a classof people who would have added to the wealth and sta-bility of any country. However, domestic virtues are notthe only ones essential to a high class citizen, he must alsopossess an active and intelligent interest in public is on account of their supposed indifference to, or igno-rance of, the larger aspects of publi
Social conditions among the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth century, as revealed in the German newspapers published in America . CHAPTER VIII. POLITICAL IDEALS. ^y INCE the Pennsylvania Germans were thrifty and*^ peace loving they necessarily must have been a classof people who would have added to the wealth and sta-bility of any country. However, domestic virtues are notthe only ones essential to a high class citizen, he must alsopossess an active and intelligent interest in public is on account of their supposed indifference to, or igno-rance of, the larger aspects of public welfare that the Penn-sylvania Germans have been most severely criticized. Iintend to show in this chapter what conception these eight-eenth century German Americans had with regard to gov-ernment and to national politics, and what their attitudewas to provincial and national events from 1740 to most striking characteristic as citizens was theirintense love of liberty, the expression of which ran like agolden thread through almost all their newspapers. Thusin 1754 Saur reported^^* the following event: a native ofWiir
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