The Immigrant in St. Louis, a Survey. Page 10

The Germans: The political upheavals which were breaking out in Europe, especially in Germany, precipitated a tremendous immigration from Germany to the United States. There were two periods of this Teutonic immigration. The first brought men of culture and position who had been strongly influenced by the revolutionary movements of the day and desired a freedom of thought and action denied them by the close gathering web of Prussian dominance. St. Louis, by this time a center from which government land grants in the territory West of the Mississippi, were being distributed, attracted the very first Germans, which fact served to divert an unusually large proportion of the subsequent immigration to St. Louis itself, as well as to the surrounding Missouri Territory. ?The glowing description in letters, pamphlets, and books written by him (Gottfried Duden), did not fail to make a deep impression in Germany, where he was well known, and where his statements were received with fullest confidence. Men, woman, and children who had never thought of leaving their fatherland, resolved to emigrate, and Duden?s account became the direct cause of the formation of what is now known as the Giessne

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