. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. I remained three years and six months. The foregoing narrative shows how difficult it was, even at that early day, tosecure honorable, remunerative employment in the Fatherland. Here was ayoung man, well born, well nurtured, of good education, trained to business,and yet after serving four years at service in a mercantile house, could find noemployment either in his own land or in Holland. As a last resort he came toAmerica. His career answers my argument affirmatively that, despite his threeyears and nine months of unwelcome service, it was
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. I remained three years and six months. The foregoing narrative shows how difficult it was, even at that early day, tosecure honorable, remunerative employment in the Fatherland. Here was ayoung man, well born, well nurtured, of good education, trained to business,and yet after serving four years at service in a mercantile house, could find noemployment either in his own land or in Holland. As a last resort he came toAmerica. His career answers my argument affirmatively that, despite his threeyears and nine months of unwelcome service, it was the best thing he could do-lt is very certain that he never regretted it Ones Birthplace a Pleasant Memory. 313 work went to reward themselves. Not one of all this vastmultitude, could their views have been ascertained, wouldhave preferred the old hum-drum life of the Fatherlandwith its many trials and few rewards to the newer life, thefreer air, the more generous living and less oppressive bur-dens they found in the pleasant land of THE MORRIS HOUSE IN Washington lived in 1793. At this distant day we can hardly realize all the un-toward circumstances and conditions that fell into the livesof these sons of the Fatherland—these children of misfor-tune and of want. It has been said man must be bornsomewhere ; it is true, and wherever that somewhere maybe, that spot, though it be the bleakest on all the earth,will live in his memory forever, and cost him many a pangere he becomes reconciled to new conditions. To leave home and friends and countrv is a trial under 314 The Pennsylvania-German Society. even the most favorable circumstances. To leave them,penniless, with the future all doubt and uncertainty, but witha full knowledge that a life of toil, hard and unremitting,with perhaps nothing better at the end of it, is as drearya prospect as can shadow any life. Thousands of them, after spending many years in freeingthemselves and their loved ones
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