“The burden of taxes, imposed by the governments for the support of their monstrous standing-armies, drives the Franconian people by the thousands into the wilds of America, where they live with a freedom unknown in the Fatherland. No land-tax, no salt-monopoly, no tithes, no military conscription, no censorship of the press, no class legislation, pursue them there.”
Charles Tylor
A Historical Tour in Franconia in the Summer of 1852
