TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Adams, President John Quincy; on First Treaty with Prussia: 229
Alabama, The; Confederate Cruiser: 51, 111
Allied Nations in War: 11
Alsace-Lorraine: 11
No Desire for French Annexation; Linked with the German Empire; German Character of: 12
General Rapp Demands Independence of; Germans Deported from: 14
France Distrusts Her Own People in: 15
American Bearers of Foreign Titles: 27
“American Liberal, The”: 70
American School Children and Foreign Propaganda: 20
Americanization Committee of Massachusetts on; Macaulay on George III; King George Not Alone Responsible: 21
George Haven Putnam’s London Address: 22
Owen Wister in London “Times”: 23
Americans Not an English People: 16
William Elliot Griffis Quoted: 178-179
Prof. Albert B. Faust: 16
James Russell Lowell; Douglas Campbell: 17
Scott Nearing: 18
James A. Garfield; Charles E. Hughes: 19
Americans Saved from Tampico Mob by German Cruiser: 19
Armstead, Major George; Defender of Ft. McHenry: 20
Astor, John Jacob; American Pathfinder: 25
Atherton, Gertrude; on Experience in Germany: 188
Atrocities, Belgian and French: 28
Melville E. Stone on: 29
Rev. J. F. Stillimans on; London “Globe” on: 30
London “Universe” on; John T. McCutcheon on; Irvin S. Cobb on; Emily S. Hobhouse on: 31
Rev. J. F. Matthews on: 32
Horace Green on; Prof. Kellogg on; Ernest P. Bicknell on: 33
American Correspondents on; Premier Asquith Denies: 34
State Department Refuses Information on; Church Authorities Investigate: 35
William K. Draper Quoted; Why Created: 36
Same Stories Told in Civil War Period; Post Office Department Prohibits Denial of: 37
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Bancroft, George; on Germans in American Revolution: 105
Negotiates Memorable Agreement with Bismarck: 38
Refers Vancouver Boundary Dispute to German Emperor; Advises Friendship With Germany: 39
Baralong, English Pirate Ship: 39
Beck, James M.: 199
Becker, Alfred L., Deputy Attorney General of New York, Investigates German Propaganda; Investigated by Senator Reed: 71
Employed Ex-Convicts: 73
Becker, Prof. Carl L.; on Composition of American People: 103
Berger, Mrs. Frances, Victim of Mob: 67
Berliner, Emile, Inventor of the Microphone: 40
Bernstorff, German Ambassador, Quotes Col. House: 131
Blaine, James G., Quotes English Sentiment During Civil War: 112
Blockade, “Illegal, Ineffective and Indefensible”: 42
Blue Laws of Virginia: 184
Boers, The; English Treatment of: 40
“Bombing Maternity Hospitals”: 44
Brant, Indian Chief, Destroys German Settlements: 135, 175
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Campbell, Douglas, on Composition of American People: 17
Carnegie, Andrew, on British-American Union: 197-8
Cavell, Edith, Executed by Germans; Execution Justified by Col. E. R. West: 46
Chamberlain, Senator, Speech on English Threats: 74
Cheradame, Andre, French Propagandist, Conspires Against President Wilson: 187
Christiansen, Hendrik, True Explorer of the Hudson River: 48
Clemenceau, Premier Georges, Blames France for War of 1870-71: 241
Cobb, Sanford H., Story of the Palatines: 104
Concord, The; Brought Germantown Settlers: 121
Concord Society, The; Objects of: 47
Cramb, Prof. J. A., on Germany’s Lofty Spirit: 51
Cramps, Shipbuilders: 125
Creasy, Prof. E. S., on the German Race: 18
Creel and the Sisson Documents: 44
Cromberger, Johann: 45
Custer, General George A., a Hessian Descendant: 45
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Daimler, Gottlieb, Inventor of the Gas Engine: 138
Danzig: 60, 85
DeKalb, Major General Johann von: 48
“Dial, The,” on French Propaganda: 187
Dillon, Dr. E. J., on Alsace-Lorraine: 11
Dorsheimer, Hon. William: 49
Dual Citizenship: 49
Dutch and German: 49
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Earling, Albert J., Railway President: 50
Eckert, Thomas: 50
Election of 1916 and the League of Nations Covenants: 51
President Wilson’s Colloquy with Senator McCumber: 56
Foreign Minister Hanotaux Promised American Aid in 1914: 57
Eliot, Prof. Charles W., on German Civilization: 50
England Plundered American Commerce: 51
Refuses Loan to United States in Civil War: 110
Threatens United States Through Canada: 73
English Government Offers $8 for American Scalps: 136
View of Paul Jones: 139
First to Use Poison Gas: 192
Tribute to Germany’s Lofty Spirit: 51
Opinion of Prussians in 1815: 58
Investment in Confederate Bonds: 114
Propaganda in Public Schools: 20
White Book Justifies Invasion of Belgium: 207
Statesmen Denounce American Union: 113
“English-Speaking Union”: 198
Erzberger, Appeal to Conscience of America: 90
Espionage Act, Vote on: 58
How Administered: 59
Report of Civil Liberties Bureau; New York “Sun” Quoted: 63
Friends of German Democracy; Mrs. William Jay; German Masons in New Jersey: 64
Exports and Imports in 1914: 58
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Fisher, Admiral, Justifies German Submarines: 212
Foreign Residents Assured as to their Investments: 230
Fourteen Points, The; History of: 86
France’s Historic Relations with the United States: 76
Franklin, Benjamin: 80
Alarmed by German Immigration: 81
Praises German Population: 83
Frederick the Great and the American Colonies: 84
Prevents Russian Alliance with England Against Colonies; Offers American Cruisers Refuge at Danzig: 85
Free Masons in New Jersey Against Language Edict: 64
Fresch, Hermann, Sulphur King: 224
Fricke, Albert Paul, Tried for Treason and Acquitted: 67
Friends of German Democracy: 64
Fritchie, Barbara, Immortalized by Whittier: 90
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Gas, Poison, First Employed by English: 192
George III, a “German King”?: 20
Macaulay on: 21
George, Lloyd, Denounces Atrocities Against Boers: 41
German American Captains of Industry: 94
German Element in American Life: 102
Mechanics in Jamestown Settlement: 91
In Virginia: 105
Moravians First Settlers in Ohio: 107
On Indian Border in Pennsylvania: 108
Settle Frankfort and Louisville, Ky: 109
Ardent patriots in Revolution: 105, 109, 175, 181
Early Western Border Occupied by: 108
Protest Against Slavery: 180
First Proclamation of Independence: 175
Praise for Their Republican Virtues: 180
In Civil War: 114
In Confederate Army: 120
Ideals of Liberty: 154
Women Spies Executed by French: 49
In American Art, Science and Literature: 91
Praised by Franklin: 83
Praised by Washington: 245
Praised by Jefferson: 141
First Newspapers: 91
George Bancroft on: 105
Subscriptions to Liberty Loan: 153
In Massachusetts Bay Colony: 156
Keeps Missouri in the Union: 159
German Emperor Decides Vancouver Boundary Dispute in Our Favor: 39
Germantown Settlement: 121
Germany; Why Strengthened Her Army: 124
Treatment of France After War of 1870-71: 90
Conduct During Civil War: 110
Buys $600,000,000 of Union Bonds: 111
Bancroft Quoted: 39
Sends Relief During Civil War: 90
Godfrey, Inventor of Quadrant: 178
Gould, B. A.; Civil War Statistics: 115
Grey, Sir Edward, on Humanity in War: 132
Griffis, Dr. William Elliot, on German Element: 104
Early German Mechanics: 105
On Jacob Leisler: 146
On Teutonic Influence: 178-9
On Bay Colony Aristocracy: 181
On Confusing Germans with Dutch: 49
Guizot, on German Love of Liberty: 154
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Hagner, Peter: 124
Haiman, Louis, “Swordmaker of the Confederacy”: 227
Hanotaux, Foreign Minister, on Assurances Given France in 1914 by American Ambassadors: 56
Harris, Frank, on Germany and England: 155
Hartford Convention, The: 124
Hempel: 125
“Herald,” New York, Urges Hanging of German Americans: 125
Hereshoffs and Cramps: 125
Herkimer, General Nicholas, Hero of Oriskany: 125
Hervé, Gustave, on Alsace Lorraine: 12
On Poison Gas: 192
Hessians, The: 125
Swell Jackson’s Stonewall Brigade; Where Settled: 129
General Custer, Descended from: 45
Hillegas, Michael, First Treasurer of the United States: 129
Hitchcock, Senator Gilbert M., on Seizure of Alien Property: 232
House, Col. E. M.; Reputed Author of “Philip Dru, Administrator”: 130
Influences President on Surrender of Saar Valley: 131
Friend of Lloyd George; Attended School in England: 130
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Ibanez, Vincente Blasco, French Propaganda Agent: 185
Ideals of Liberty: 154
Illiteracy of Contending Countries: 132
Immigration: 132
Germantown: 177
Indians, Tories and German Settlements: 135
Invention of Telephone, Gas Engine, Photographic Lenses, etc.: 138
“Issues and Events”: 69
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Jaeger, Pastor, Murdered for Being German: 67
Jay, Mrs. William, Leads Campaign to Suppress German Music: 64
Jefferson, Thomas, on German Immigrants: 141
On English Hyphenates: 140
On Virginia Blue Laws: 184
On Longing for an English King: 24
Jones, John Paul; English View of: 139
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Kapp, Frederich, History of American People: 102-4
King, Senator, of Utah, Bill Canceling Charter of the German American Alliance: 69
Knobel, Caspar, Captures Jefferson Davis: 142
Knownothing Party: 142
Koerner, Gustav, on Political Character of German Americans: 143
Krech, Alvin W.:
Kudlich, Dr. Hans, the Peasant Emancipator: 143
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Langlotz, Prof. C. A., Author of “Old Nassau”: 145
Lee, Lighthouse Harry: 148
Lehman, Philip Theodore, William Penn’s Secretary: 145
Lehmann, Frederick William: 145
Leisler, Jacob, First Martyr to Cause of American Independence: 145
Lieber, Francis: 146
Founder, “Encyclopedia Americana”: 147
Legal Advisor to Lincoln Government; Author of “Instructions for the Armies in the Field”: 148
Lincoln, Abraham, of German Extraction?: 148
London “Times” in 1862: 113
Long, Frances L., One of Custer’s Sergeants and Survivor Greeley Arctic Expedition: 152
Lossing, Benson J., on Our Debt to France: 77
On Jacob Leisler: 146
On Conrad Weiser: 245
Lowell, James Russell; American People Not English: 17
Ludwig, Christian, Purveyor of the Revolutionary Army: 153
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Macaulay, Lord, on German Immigrant Settlers: 104
On George III: 21
Marix, Rear Admiral Adolph: 156
Massow, Baron von, Member of Mosby’s Brigade: 156
McCarthy, Justin, on Cruise of the Alabama; Recognition of Confederacy: 111
On Schleswig-Holstein Question: 210
McCumber, Senator, Asks President About Our Entrance Into the War: 56
McNeill, Walter S., on German Constitution: 155
On German Civil Law: 157
Memminger, Christoph Gustav, Secretary of the Treasury in the Confederate Cabinet: 157
Menken, S. Stanwood, Organizer and President National Security League: 171-2
Mergenthaler, Ottmar, Inventor of the Linotype Machine: 157
Military Establishments of the Warring Nations in 1914: 157
Minnewit, Peter, Purchased Island of Manhattan from Indians: 158
Missouri, How Kept in the Union: 159
Montesquieu, on Birth of Liberty: 154
Morgan, J. Pierpont: 158
Related to Viscount Lewis Harcourt: 159
Accused in Congress of Controlling Press: 190
Muhlenberg, Heinrich Melchior, Founder Lutheran Church in America; Frederick August, First Speaker House of Representative; Peter, General; Career of: 161
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Nagel, Charles, Secretary of Commerce and Labor: 169
Nast, Thomas, America’s Greatest Cartoonist; Kills the Tweed Ring; Grant’s Opinion of: 169
National Security League; Objects of, Backers of: 169
Representative Cooper of Wisconsin on: 170
Interference with New York Public Schools: 171
How Organized; Disbursements by: 172
Denounced in Congress: 171-2
Neutrality; President Wilson on, in Mexican Relations: 172
New Ulm Massacre: 173
Northcliffe, Lord; Control of American Newspapers: 174
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Ohio; Germans First to Settle, First White Child in: 107
Orth, Charles D., President National Security League: 171-2
Osterhaus, General Peter Joseph, Record in Union Army: 174
His Pension Canceled: 175
Overman Bill: 54
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Palatines, the; Sanford H. Cobb on: 104
Judge Benton Quoted: 105
Declaration of Independence Antedates that of Mecklenburg: 175
Its Signers: 176-7
Panin, Count Nikolai I, Russian Premier, Bribed by Frederick the Great: 85
Pastorius, Franz Daniel, Founder of Germantown: 121, 177
Agitation Against Unveiling of Monument to: 179
Author of First Protest Against Slavery: 180
Pathfinders, German American: 191
Penn, William, and Crefeld Immigrants: 121
His Mother a Dutch Woman: 193
Pennypacker, Ex-Governor Samuel Whitaker: 121
Pilgrim Society: 193
Pitcher, Molly; Famous Heroine of German Descent: 190
Poison Gas; First Used at Colenso; French Testimony: 192
Prager, Robert B., Lynched by Anti-German Mob: 67
Press Attacked in Congress: 190
Propaganda in the United States: 185
Vincente Blasco Ibanez, French Agent: 185
Louis Tracy, English Agent; How Conducted: 186
French Described by “The Dial;” Andre Cheradame: 187
Overman Committee; Gertrude Atherton: 188
Prussia, First Treaty with: 229
Prussian Constitution, Praised by President Wilson: 156
Puritans; Land in 1620; Great Migration; Freemen; Hang Quakers and Witches; Blue Laws: 184
Putnam, George Haven, Repudiates the American Revolution; Proposes to Rewrite Text Books of American History in Public Schools: 22
Regrets American Independence from England: 23
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Quakers Hanged in Bay Colony: 184
Quitman, General J. A., in Mexican War: 194
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Rassieur, Leo: 205
Reis, Philipp, Inventor of the Telephone: 139
Representation in Congress: 194
Rhodes, Cecil; Text of Secret Will to Reclaim the United States: 195
Sinclair Kennedy, on Plan: 196-7
Whitelaw Reid, on Unity with English Government: 196
Andrew Carnegie, on British-American Union; Rhodes Scholarships: 197
General Pershing’s Statement; James M. Beck’s Statement: 199
Admiral Sims’s Guildhall Speech; New York “Globe” Quotes Ambassador Page: 200
Prof. Roland G. Usher, on Secret Understanding; Colonial Secretary Chamberlain Quoted: 201
Joseph H. Choate’s Toast to the King: 202
Ringling, Al: 203, 207
Rittenhouse, David, First Great American Scientist: 204
Roebling, John August, Famous Bridge Builder: 205
Roosevelt, Theodore: 205
Russia Approached by England for Alliance Against the Colonies: 85
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Sauer, Christopher, Famous Colonial Printer: 217
Scheffauer, Herman George, American Poet: 215
Schell, Johann Christian: An Episode of the Early Border: 215
Schleswig-Holstein, “One and Indivisible”: 209
Wish to be German; Revolution Against Denmark, 1848: 210
Cradle of Purest Germanism: 211
Total Danish-Speaking Population in Germany: 212
Schley, Admiral Winfield Scott; Rescue of Lt. Greeley: 216
Schreiner, George A., on American Passport Discriminations: 66
On Use of Poison Gas at Colenso: 192
On Lusitania Sinking: 242
Schurz, Carl, on German Revolution of 1848: 214
On German Element in the United States: 102
Scraps of Paper: 208
Secret Treaties: 89
Seward, Secretary William H., Expresses Thanks to Prussia: 112
Slavery, First Protest Against: 180
Starving Germany; Result of, and Casualties: 217
State Department Note of Assurance, February 8, 1917: 230
Steinmetz, Charles P., Famous Electrician: 217
Steuben, Baron Frederick von: 220
Sutter, the Romance of a California Pioneer: 225
First to Hoist American Flag to Stay; Founds New Switzerland on Sacramento River; Alvarado Land Grant: 225
Sides with Santa Anna; Lays Out Town of Sutterville, now Sacramento; Visited by Major Fremont; Hoists the American Flag on His Fort; Gold Discovered on His Ranch by Marshall: 226
Sutter Ruined; Dies Poor in Pennsylvania; Tribute to: 227
“Swordmaker of the Confederacy”: 227
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Taft, William H., on Religious Intolerance: 185
Praises Kaiser: 208
“Times,” London, Denounces United States: 113
Advocates British Propaganda in the United States: 24
Titled Americans: 27
Tolstoy on American Liberty: 228
Tracy, Louis, Head of English Propaganda Bureau: 186
Treaties of 1799 and 1828, with Germany: 229-30
Treaty, Commercial, with Germany, and How Observed; President John Quincy Adams on First Treaty; Treaties of 1799-1828: 229
State Department Assures Foreign Residents: 230
Alien Custodianship Aired in Congress; Senator Hitchcock’s Momentous Statement; President Wilson’s Remarks of April 2, 1917; List of Persons Whose Property Was Seized: 232
Property of Wives of Aliens Seized: 233
Tryon County Committee of Safety: 175
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Usher, Prof. Roland G., on “Understanding” with England: 200-2
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Viereck, George Sylvester: 71, 92
Villard, Henry: 236
Virginia Blue Laws: 184
Vote on War in Congress: 236
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War of 1870-71 240 War Lies Repudiated by English Paper: 241
Washington’s Body Guard: 244
Tribute to Germans: 245
Weiser, Conrad, Pioneer and Statesman: 245
West, Col. E. R., Justifies Execution of Edith Cavell: 46
Wetzel, Lou, Indian Fighter: 246
Whittier, John Greenleaf, Poem on Germantown Settlement: 180
Williams, Deantor John Sharp, on Fighting Canada: 76
Wilson, Woodrow, President; on Our Debt to France: 78
On His Fourteen Points: 88
Friendship for German People: 90
German Intellectualism, 1917 and 1919: 155
Praises Prussian Constitution: 156
On “Best Practices of Nations”: 172
Wirt, William, Famous Jurist and Author: 247
Wirtz, Captain Henry, of Andersonville Prison: 247
Wistar, Caspar: 247
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Zane, Elizabeth, Early Border Heroine: 248
Zeisberger, David, Founds First Christian Community in Ohio: 107
Zenger, John Peter, and the Freedom of the Press: 250
Ziegler, David, Revolutionary Soldier and Indian Fighter: 248