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[The Attitude of the Protestant Anglo-Americans]

Illinois Staats-Zeitung, Feb. 4, 1871

Editorial expressing resentment that the Protestant Anglo-Americans have shown so much more sympathy for the Italian unification movement than for the German. "Cavour and the mentally limited Victor Emanuel, in comparison to whom even the old Lehmann is a real man, have been praised in high heaven..." (The fact that the Staats Zeitung constantly refers to William I as' the old Lehmann' or even 'Kaiser Lehmann' and makes remarks about him that in Germany by that time would certainly have been punished as less majeste, is characteristic of the lack of geniune monarchical enthusiasm among the well-to-do liberal Germans of Chicago.)

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