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THE GERMAN IN AMERICA, or ADVICE AND INSTRUCTION FOR GERMAN EMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Also, A READER FOR BEGINNERS IN THE ENGLISH AND GERMAN LANGUAGES. By F.W. BOGEN, PASTOR IN BOSTON, MASS. Contents: General Remarks.; The Constitution of the United States.; Sketch of the Life of Washington.; Sketch of the Life of Franklin. Second Edition. Boston--B.H. Greene, 124 Washington-street; New-York--Koch & Co., 160 William-street; Philadelphia--J. Weik, Third and New-streets. And in the Bookstores of the United States. 1851. |
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"In this and many other relations the emigrant intending to start for, on his way to America should not neglect to consider the advice for emigrants, which appeared in some public papers a short time since and from which the following is selected. 1. Never suffer yourself to be so misguided in Germany, as to pay in advance your fare from New-York to the interior of America. You can gain nothing by this, but lose much. Pay your passage only to New-York, and no farther. 2. If you wish to go to Missouri, Iowa, to Western or Southern Illinois, or to Southern Indiana, go by the way of New Orleans. Although there is deception enough committed there, yet it is not so bad and the consequences not so pernicious as in New-York. 3. You need not engage a runner or inquire at a forwarding-office. The runners feel no compunction in telling you the most impudent falsehoods. If you, for instance, inquire for a friend in New-York, .... |
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