Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-09-17
Carl Schurz.

One of our German citizens has furnished us
with some outlines OF the past career of Carl
Schurz, the republican nominee for lieutenant
governor. Mr.. Schnrz finished his studies at
| the celebrated university of Bonn on the Rhine
| in 1913, Just at the commencement of the revo-
lutionary movement of that year in Germany
Young and enthusiastic, with an ardent sympa-
thy for republican principles, he hailed that
movement as the beginning of the enfranchise-
ment If Europe from kingly and despotic rule.
He began to labour for it,as contributor to the
public journals which avowed liberal sentiments.
Among others, the Dresdener Zeitung, then ed.
tied by Mr.. Lindeman, the present editor of the
Zeitung of this city, was the recipient of his IA
vors. Soon after, he associated himself with the
celebrated German patriot and poet, Professor
Kinkel, in the publication of a republican paper
| at Bonn. The success of the new journal, was
evidence of the talent and skill with which it
was conducted.
| In 1S49, when the Prussian army invaded the
south of Germany, Schurz joined the ranks
of the revolutionists, and, in the battle of Ras-
tadt fought as an officer of the staff of the COM
handing general. Subsequently he took part in
the defence of the fortress of Rastadt. For twen-
ty-three days, the garrison, consisting of 5000
men, held out against 40, 900 assalants With
the fall of the fortress ne was made prisoner with
the remainder of the garrison. Soon AFTER he
effected his escape, in somewhat perilous man.
ner, and took refuge in Switzerland
On arriving there the intelligence reached him
that his beloved teacher and associate, Prof Kim
kle had been wounded in the battle of Bastadt
and been made prisoner. From that hour
Schurz had no thought but to liberate his friend
or to sacrifice his own life in the attempt Kin
kle was closely confined at Lanyard, near Ber-
lin. The difficulties and perils of the proposed
enterprise might well have shaken the firmest
purpose and the stoutest heart. Schurz, the
prescribed and hunted revoutionist, to reach the
| place where his friend was imprisoned, must
penetrate TO the centre of Prussia, and run the
hazard of escaping the lynx.eyed vigilance of
the Prussian police. But no peril was great
enough to Gaunt his generous friendship or de-
ter him from the effort. Soon after he entered
the Prussanterritory, the police got intelligence.
| of him and were upon his track. He succeeded
however, in evading them, and after running
the gauntlet of thousand perils, this indefatiga-
| BILE and intrepid man reached Lanyard. There. &
| in imitation of stratagem which has been ham
| ded down in song from the days of the chival-
rous Richard of the Lion Heart, he succeeded in
making Kinkel aware of his presence by play
ing favorite airs upon flute in the vicinity of
his dungeon, and shortly after effected by means
that have never been divulged, lest the account
might implicate persons now living in Prussia,
| the deliverance of his friend A long and peril
| Gus journey remained to be performed in order
| to reach the Baltic coast. Fortunately these
fugitives from tyranny succeeded in escaping
or misleading the argus-eyed police; and after
four months OF constant labor and imminent
danger, and stormy transit in a little schooner
across the German ocean, Schurz and his Eber
ated friend, trod in safety the hospitabe shores
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