# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1856_S217
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Correspondence from Germany. 217

A. Efird,             Pastor . . . . . . . .    votes for Columbus, O.
C. Moretz,                "  . . . . . . . .        "     "     "     "
A. J. Brown,               "  . . . . . . . .        "     "     "     "
A. Selle,                  "  . . . . . . . .        "     "     "     "
W. S. Stubnatzi,           "  . . . . . . . .        "     "     "     "
J. G. Küchle,              "  . . . . . . . .        "     "     "     "
M. Stephan,                "  . . . . . . . .        "     "     "     "
J. F. Lautenschlager,      "  . . . . . . . .        "     " Cincinnati, O.
S. K. Brobst,              "  . . . . . . . .        "     "     "     "
D. Fürbringer,             "  . . . . . . . .        "     " Columbus, O.

Correspondence from Germany.

*** In the Kingdom of Saxony, May 20, 1856.

*** In politics a great turning point has occurred through the third Peace of Paris, by which, in the first instance, the fate of the Christians in the Orient has been determined, perhaps for a long time to come. Turkish rule has been rehabilitated and is now recognized; nevertheless, through the new Firman determining the relations of the Christians to the ruling Muslims, the foundation has indeed been laid for these relations to take on, with time, a different form. Lord Palmerston described what was intended thereby, in passing, thus: they had preserved the Turks in their integrity, but did not wish thereby to give any guarantee that a particular race must remain at the helm in the Orient. It will now be a question whether Christendom there, with the rights now granted to it, can be kept from the old dependency upon the Turks. And who would not rejoice at that! Gog and Magog will, to be sure, remain until the Last Day, as Luther is right to say, and it is indeed a sign of the times that Christian powers have again helped this Antichrist outside the Church back onto his feet. Here with us, meanwhile, along with the air of peace, a tremendous spirit of speculation and huckstering has set in. All the levers of art and science, and above all of Mammon, are being set in motion by a thousand hands and spirits, and it looks as if the whole old world were to be lifted off its hinges. Everyone chases and grasps after money; soon one will hear nothing here in town and village but: Thaler, Thaler, Thaler! And our cozy, glorious German fatherland, with its people richly gifted by the Lord in every direction, will shortly be transformed into a land of industry and commerce; there stand, alongside the old knights' castles and the estates of the nobility, the palaces and castles of the nobility of the new age — the factories — and round about them the houses and little houses of the serfs and bondsmen of these high lords, the factory workers, who