. The Pennsylvania-German in the settlement of Maryland . CHAPTER X. Education, Redemptioners, M HEN the German emi-grants began to ar-rive in this country, and moreparticularly in Pennsylvania,in large numbers and it be-came apparent that unless theinflux was checked the Ger-man settlers would soon out-number the English, the lat-ter in no uncertain termsvoiced their objection to al-lowing the Germans to comein unlimited numbers, andfound all sorts of reasons for this objection. One of thechief reasons advanced on all sides was the statement thatthe Germans were a rude, ignorant a
. The Pennsylvania-German in the settlement of Maryland . CHAPTER X. Education, Redemptioners, M HEN the German emi-grants began to ar-rive in this country, and moreparticularly in Pennsylvania,in large numbers and it be-came apparent that unless theinflux was checked the Ger-man settlers would soon out-number the English, the lat-ter in no uncertain termsvoiced their objection to al-lowing the Germans to comein unlimited numbers, andfound all sorts of reasons for this objection. One of thechief reasons advanced on all sides was the statement thatthe Germans were a rude, ignorant and uneducated classof people. This objection was frequently urged, and fromthat day to this it has been the custom for those whoshould know better to speak of the Pennsylvania-Germansettlers as illiterate and uneducated. No doubt this was,in some degree, due to the fact that the settlers did not,as a rule, learn to speak the English language, but ad- io8 Pennsylvania-German in Settlement of Maryland. 109 hered to the use of their own language as well as to theirmanners and customs. But in point of edu
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