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Excerpt from Monument at Germantown: Hearing Before the Committee on the Library of the House of Representatives on H. R. 9137
The alliance demands, therefore, the full honest recognition of these merits and opposes every attempt to belittle them. Always true to the adopted country, ever ready to risk all for its welfare, sincere and unselfish in the exercise of the duties of citizenship, respecting the law - still remains the watchword. It has no exclusive interests in View nor the founding of a State within a State, but sees in the centraliza tion of the inhabitants of German origin the shortest road to and the surest guarantee for the attainment of the aims set forth in this constitution. It calls, therefore, on all German organizations, as the organized representatives of the German spirit and manners, to cooperate With it for their development, and recommends, further, the formation of societies in all the States of the Union for the preservation of the interests of German Americans, looking toward an eventual centralization of these societies into a great german-american alliance, and would have all German societies consider it a duty and an honor to j oin the organization in their respective States. The alliance engages to labor firmly and at all times with all the legal means at its command for the maintenance and propagation of its principles, and to defend them energetically Wherever and whenever they are in danger. Its purposes are the following platform.
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