Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-09-20
wbo is Carl sohurzF
Carl SchuTz was born thirty-twO years ago

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miniOns. In ls49, he Joined the Constitu-
tiOnal army, and sharing in its reverses, was
sentenced to death for high treason. For
three days and nights, after the Prussians
had entered Rastadt he lay concealed in
Shed, on beam or rafer, 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 every night the sol
diers assembled on the floor beaesib his hid
ing place, and danced 10 the music of the
trumpet On tge the fourth nlesst a heavy
shower Of rain gave AiBi Ct -c-,,-.,,
nifty of atiemptia~ tns A-.' y pOi''f
from thu W. an escape, and he jumped
bRot roof on chicken coop, which
e down under him with a loud crash,
+ though without attracting the notice of the
sentry. who was, or ought to have been, but
a few Yards off, By the assistance OF ms
friends he reached a sewer, and thus attained
/ the outside of the forti6cations. Even her
there was sentry, but by following closely
! behfnd him as he walked by, he managed 10
oain a cover. before the sentry turned on his
Ieat. He made his way to Paris, and re
manned there a considerable time, in the vain
hone of a favorable turn in the affairs of his
-native country. In a little book, published
bv the chief spy of Bonaparte's police, ne re-
ceived honorable mention as 'the most su-
dacious and the most adrOit OF the exlies,
who, whIe-e constantly active, could never be
ensnared into any act furnishing pretext
even to the liberal conscience OF a Bonaparte
for his extradition. ~
At this time the public opinion of Ger
many was much aroused by the cowardly
VENGEANCE wreaked by the PrRssian Govern
ment on Godfrey KinkeL atownsman OF
Schurz's s professor, who had Joined the con
stitutioual movements at the same time with
himself This man; a poet Of delicate frame,
highly educated, and accustomed to all the
refnements LIE, was imprisoned at Spandau,
twenty miles from Berlin, dressed as a con
vict bis hair cropped short, and forced 70
labor at WOO -carding, and to room and mess
with felous. Schurz having determined to
rescue him repaired to London, collected the
means. and made the arrangements. With
a forred passport he Travelled direct to Berlin,
left his papers with the police overnight, OBJ
2 tanned a Giss tor some other town the next
morning, and, instead of proceeding, took
lodging in a boarding house There he re-
mained for six weeks, going toSpandau every
day, and returning late at night when
} the policeman was always 50 obliging as tC
, unlock the door Of his boarding house toI
him. All the arrangements having been
completed he carried of Kinkel in coacE
one rainy night together with his keeper
Relays of horses were in readiness from
| station to station until they reached the sei
shore, where a pilot-boat received them
They landed at Hull or Yarmouth long
before the Government had the most remote
idea Of the prisoners whereabouts. Coming
to this country in 1851, be registered him,
self as a law student at Philadelphia, ahC
soiourned there for number Of years oc
cuping his time, almost exclusively, with th'
study of this country, its material and social
! condition, its history, its institutions and fi
future. In 1856 he removed to Wisconsin
and entered on the practice Of the law j
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