The editors also surely knew that such nuggets would help keep up the North's fighting spirit!
While it was common, it does not mean that Germans accepted it. They often referred to Americans as too uneducated to know the difference between the two regions/countries.UGH. Talk about a stink -- such hatred reeks!
Good on the Wisconsinites for exposing just how awful the sentiments in Knoxville, TN, were at the time -- although I imagine there was more at work in the publication of this than righteous moral outrage -- the editors also surely knew that such nuggets would help keep up the North's fighting spirit!
Just a side note: I've always been bugged by the way Germans have so often been referred to as Dutchmen. I know, I know, it's probably because of the language -- Deutsch, after all -- but still. Wish they'd get the nationalities straight.
Yeah, I know. Still bugs me, though. Always been a bit anal about words.@KansasFreestater
The term Dutchman comes from the fact that Deutsch is pronounced in English as if it were Doytsh. The formation of the oy sound (as in the Yiddish oy vey) is hard for a lot of people to pronounce. Hence "Dutch" or "Dutchman".
They often referred to Americans as too uneducated to know the difference between the two regions/countries.