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but repudiated communism and exchange banks as chimeras.^8 The
Cleveland Germania, on the other hand, recommended the paper
warmly and believed to have discovered evidence to show that its
editor had "become more practical" since his arrival in the United
States.^9 The Illinois Staatszeitung admired Weitling's "courage
and fire" but was extremely doubtful about his methods. The New
Orleans Republikaner, the St. Louis Anzeiger des Westens, the
Philadelphia Freie Presse, the Pitts burger Courier, the Baltimore
Deutscher Correspondent, the Milwaukee Der tägliche Volks¬
freund, and the Michigan Tribune recommended the new paper
to the attention of their readers and with few exceptions wished
Weitling success in his new undertaking.^10
Weydemeyer, soon to lead a workers' movement in strict con
formity with Marxian principles and in opposition to Weitling,
in a letter to the Neu England Zeitung described the paper of his
competitor as "a museum specimen and therefore ... of some
interest, albeit slight, to archeologists."^11 Catholic papers, such
as Die katolische Kirchenzeitung and the Wahrheitsfreund of
Cincinnati, and the St. Louis Lutheraner denounced the new paper
because of its anticlericalism and its attacks on miracles and revela
tion. The Baltimore Fackel, though a radical paper, dismissed
Weitling's proposal for a bank of exchange as nothing more than
a "pious hope," and the otherwise sympathetic Buffalo Demokrat
found it impossible to accept the editor's program in its entirety.
Papers such as the Philadelphia Demokrat, the Philadelphia Volks¬
vertreter, the Baltimore Herold and the Cincinnati Volksfreund,
on the other hand, made short shrift of all such "world reformers"
and their "pretty playthings."^12 The Columbus Westbote
thanked God there were no refugees "with their damned social
ism" in the Ohio capital, and the Baltimore Wecker commented
sarcastically on the "vanity" and "selfishness" of "dictators" and
sBelleviller Zeitung, December 5, 1850; also January 19, 1854.(^9) Cleveland Germania, May 15, 1850.
(^10) See Rep. d. Arb., February, March, May, and June, 1850.
(^11) Quoted in Obermann, Weydemeyer, 71; and Rep. d. Arb., July 9,1853.
(^12) Cincinnati Volksfreund, May 18, 1854; Baltimore Herold, March 18, 1851.