The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-09-24
Reception Of Carl Schurtz at Mil
waukee.

Wauke0.
The eloquent and true hearted patriot o
Wisconsin-Carl Schurtz-was welcomed
to Milwaukee on the 7th inst. by an enthu.
siastic assemblage. His name had been
presented to the State Convention as can
didate for Governor, but he failed to receive
the nomination. with this explanation we
give portion of the noble response of Mr.
Schurtz to the welcome extended to him:
Some people have been whispering into
my ears. for few days: You have been
badly treated; protested friends have de-
ceived you: when the heavy work is to be
done. they come to you; when rewards are
to be distributed. they ignore your claims:
and the like.
But those who speak to me in that way,
measure my character by very small
standard. Do they expect that my notions
of duty should break down under the finn
sy weight of some small personal disap
pointment? Do they think that my course
should be determined by the tickle breezes
of fortune. The great battle of principles
in which we are engaged, is no mere child s
play. When the destinies of nation are
the stake of the struggle, no man has right
to call himself faithful soldier. who would
refuse to sacrifice for the public benefit
some peltry personal resentment.
In saying this do not express my own
individual sentiments alone I know there
is not one true friend of liberty before me,
who would not endorse them not with words
only. but with acts.
It Is impossible to carry principles of
general policy into practice without the or
ganization of parties whose efficacy consists
in the discipline of their members. Do not
misunderstood me on this point. A party
like that to which belong. the representa-
tive OF the great prinsipIes of human rights,
cannot, and shall not, live on drill and dis
ciplne alone, as its vital element. Il can
not, and it shall not, be mere machinery
of masked despotism, governed in its move
ments by a few truckers, and iuled by the
arts Of secret diplomacy. It must be found
ed on the consciences of those who COM
pose it, for there alone is its moral vitality.
In such party every member may preserve
his honor and independence.
To shape your course according TO the
reigning prejudices, contriving to be always
in the majority, to work, waited along by
the applauses of the multitude, to leap from
attempt to attempt in this way, and from
success to success--that is an easy thing;
but to struggle quietly and steadily against
stubborn difficulties, to see a new obstacle
thrown in your way, as soon as one is sur
mounted, to see the result of long and tire
some exerti"ns trampled down in an hour
and great successes prevented by clumsy
accident. and then to set quietly TO work
again with never-tiring patience in order to
restore what was destroyed, your eye stead
lily fixed on the great truth you want to re-
alize-that is The kind of labor which tries
mems souls. Mark well, am not speak
ing of personal success, but of the build
ing up of the Machinery by which ideas are
10 be carried into reality, of the organiza-
ton of party worthy to represent great
would be ready to bring any
sacrifice of personal feelings, short of the
sacrifice of nay honor and my conscience.
When such sacrifice may be demanded
| leave it to the conscience of every one to
determine. Let every ones acts be ruled
by his devotion to the common cause. Do
not attach too much Importance to small
things and take care not to generalize inju
ries of local or personal charaetee.
The time of the great national battle of
J 0oo Is last approaching. Inc enemies OF
our cause are strong; all the power and pat
ronage of the national government and
well drilled party organization are at their
disposal. They are fertile in expedients,
they will spare no efforts. But whatever
their strength may be it will yield to the
power of the truth, if we are true to our
selves. Let every heart be filed with that
generous and self-sacriicing zeal which
true patriotism. The patriot
SIN of the people will rise to the infected
regions where politicians move, and our
beloved State will prove worthy of its noble
lille; Wisconsin, the young pioneer of free
lom.