St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-10-11
Carl Schurz.

80 years ago, in Bonn, on the Rhine, in
the Prussian D0minions. In l849, he
Joined the Constitutional army, and sha,-
ing in its reverses, was sentenced to death
for bigh treason. For three days and
nights, after the Prussians had entered
Restadt, he lay concealed in shed, on a
beam or rafter, just wide enough to con-
ceal 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 every night the soldiers
assembled on the floor beneath his hiding
place, and danced to the music Of the trum-
Pc. On the fourth night a heavy shower
OF rain gave him the first opportunity Of
attempting an escape, aud he jumped from
the roof upon a chicken coop, which broke
down under him with loud crash, though
without attracting the notice o the sentry
who was, or ought to have been, but few
yards off. By the assistance Of bis friends
he reached sewer, and thus attained the
outside Of the forti6cations.o Even here
there was a sentry, but, by following close
~ behind him as he walked by, he mauag-
ed to gain cover, before the sentry 1urn.
ed on his beat. He made his way to Par
is, and remained there q considerable time,
in the VAIN hope of a favorable turn in the
affairs Of his native country. :. In little
book; published by the chief spy of Bona
parties police he received honorable men
ton as 1.-The most audacious and the most
adroit" OF the exiles, who, while constantly
active, could never be ensnared into any
act furnishing pretext even to the liberal
conscience Of a Bonaparte for his extradi-
ton. At this time the public opinion of
Germany was much aroused by the cow
ardly vengeance wreaked by the Prussian
Government on Godfrey KiBkel, towns
man Of Schur1's, q professor, who had join
ed the constitutional movement at the same
time with himself. This man, poet, of
delicate frame, highly educated, and accus-
toned to all the re6nements Of life, was
imprisoned at Spandan, twenty miles from
Berlin, dressed IS a convict, his hair crop
ped short, and forced to work at wool card
ing, and to room with felons. Schurz,
having determined to rescue him, repaired
TO london. collected the means, and made
the arrangements. With forged passport
he travelled direct to Berlin, left his papers
with the police over night, obtained a vise
for some other town the next morning 2, and ,
instead Of proceeding, took lodgings in a
boarding house. II There he remained for
six weeks, going to Spandan every ::dvy
and returning late at night when the po-
iceman was always 80 obliging as to unlock
the door Of his boarding house for him
All the arrangements having been COM
pleted, be carried off oKinkel in, . coach
one rainy night, together with his keeper.
Relays Of horses we're in readiness from
station, to station, until they reached tho
seashore, where pilot-boat received them.
They landed at Hull or Yarmouth long be-
fore the Government had the most remote
idea Of the prisoner Whereabouts. Coming
to this country IS 1851, he registered him
self Is law student at philadelphia, and
sojourned there for number Of years, c.
'cupying his time, almost exclusively, with
the study Of this country; is material and
social condition, It's history, is institutions,
and its future. : In 1854, he removed to
WATERFOWL, y Wisconsin, and enterod upon
the practice of law in Milwaukee. :affw
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