. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. dead were thrown into the kindly waters, un-knelled, uncoffined and unknown. They were many andtheir oppressors few ; smarting under the deceptions andwrongs practiced upon them, their forbearance seems al-most inexplicable. Here, too, the spirit of the age playedits part. It was an age of loyalty to lord and master. Tothem the doctrine of jure divino was not a mere abstrac-tion. It was one of the overmastering principles of theirlives. They were respecters of authority, and to an ex-tent that for half a century and more led to their disadvan
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. dead were thrown into the kindly waters, un-knelled, uncoffined and unknown. They were many andtheir oppressors few ; smarting under the deceptions andwrongs practiced upon them, their forbearance seems al-most inexplicable. Here, too, the spirit of the age playedits part. It was an age of loyalty to lord and master. Tothem the doctrine of jure divino was not a mere abstrac-tion. It was one of the overmastering principles of theirlives. They were respecters of authority, and to an ex-tent that for half a century and more led to their disadvan-tage. For once the divine precept of obedience to author-ity worked to their undoing. We fail to understand how these poor people should haveconsented to all this unutterable injustice and wrong-doingfor several generations. If the immigrant of 1728 was The Father of His Country. 295 unaware of what was in store for him, the same cannot besaid of those who came in 1750 and thereafter. The At- g aire ale t: ©ctwicft bay RtancB ^ailen. >:^f5jv. i779-4 3-- ; v i, s } FAC-SIMIEE OF COVER ON BAILEYS GERMAN 173 The above cut is a fac-simile of the cover on an almanac—Dcr GanlzNeue Berbesserte Nord-Americanische Calender. Aufdas ijjgste Jalir Berfertigt von David Rittenhaus,—published at Lancaster, Pa., by Francis 296 The Pennsylvania-German Society. lantic was wide, but not so wide that letters could not reachthe relatives and friends who were still in the old know many of them wrote and told the horrors that hadbeen encountered. It is true, as is elsewhere recounted,that the Newlanders even stole the letters from America,when they could, to prevent the dismal tales they told frombecoming known to those for whom they were intended ;but that, doubtless, was an infrequent occurrence, and pos-sible only on favorable occasions. Why then did thesepeople persist in coming, five and six thousand yearly, forlengthy periods? The question is difficult
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