Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-10-04
Who is Carl Schurzf

Carl Sc0urZ was born thlrty-two year;
ago, in Bonn, on the Rhine, in the Prussiar
dominions. In 1S49, he joined the Con
stitutional army, and sharing in its re-
verses, was sentenced to death for high ire
son. For three days and nights after the
Prussians had entered Rastadt, he lay con
cealed in shed, on beam or rafter, just
wide enough to conceal his person from the
eyes of those who stood below. A guard
of some kind was stationed in the very
house to which this shed belonged, and ev-
cry night the soldiers assembled on the
floor beneath his hiding place, and danced
10 the music of the trumpet. On the
fourth night heavy shower of rain gave
him the first opportunity of attempting an
escape, and he jumped from the roof on a
chicken coop, which broke down under him
with loud crash, though without attract
ing the notice Of the sentry, who was, Or
ought to have been, but few yards off,
By the assistance of his friends he reached
a sewer, and thus attained the outside of
the Notifications. Even here there was a
sentry, but, by following closely behind him
as he walked by, he managed to gain a
cover, before the sentry turned on his beat.
He made his way to Paris, and remained
there considerable time, in the vain hope
of favorable turn in the affairs of his ma
tive country. In little book, published
BY the chief spy of Bonaparte's police, he
received honorable mention as "the most
audacious and most adroit' of the exiles,
who, while constantly active, could never
be ensnared into any act furnishing pre-
text even to the liberal conscience of Bo-
naparte for his extradition.
At this time the public opinion of Ger
many was much aroused by the cowardly
vengeance wreaked by the Prussian Gov
ernment on Godfrey Kingel, townsman
of Schurz's professor, who had joined the
constitutional movement at the same time
with himself. This man; poet of deli
cate frame, highly educated, and accustom-
ed TO all the refnenents of life, was i'm
prisoned at Spandau, twenty miles from
Berlin, dressd as convict, his hair cropped
short, and forced to labor at wool -carding,
and to room and mess with felons. Schurz
having determined to rescue him repaired
to London, collected the means, and made
the arrangements. With forged pass
port he travelled direct to Berlin, left his
papers wi the police over night, obtained
a Use for some other town the next morn
ing, and, instead of proceeding, took lodg-
ing in boarding house. There he remain
ed for six weeks, going to Spandau every
day, and returning late at night when the
policeman was always SO obliging as to un-
lock the door of his boarding house for
him. All the arrangements having been
completed, he carried off Kinkel in coach
one rainy night, together with his keeper.
Relays of horses were in readiness from
station to station until they reached the
sea shore, where pilot boat received them.
They landed at Hull or Yarmouth long be-
fore the Government had the most remote
idea of the prisoners whereabouts. Com
ing to this country in 1851, he registered
himself as law student at Philadelphia,
and sojourned there for number of years,
occupying his time, almost exclusively,
with the study of this country, its material
and social condition, its history, its institu,
tions and its future. In 1856 he removed
to Wisconsin, and entered on the practice
of the law in Milwaukee.