The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-07-18
THE SWEET GERMAN ACCENT.


The local of the Plain Dealer gives the fol
lowing account of a Republican meeting late
ly held in Cleveland '5
Carl Schurz resides in Wisconsin and is a
German. He is the greatest orator that ever
| lived. Cicero, Demosthenes, Ed Burke, Char
| ley Fox, Dick Sheridan and "all them fellers''
couldn't hold candle to Carl Schurz of Wis
consin. 1t is not to much to say, indeed, that
| Carl Schurz is d-l of fellow. He was a
blood red Republican in his native land, aad
naturally enough he is an inky black Republi-
can in the land of his adoption. What Carl
Schurz says, therefore, the crimson patriots,
| who wear a fine head of hair on their upper
| lips, vociferously swear to. When he roars
| they bray. When he kicks they wiggle-
| When he snorts they sneeze.
! As terrible as an army with banners, or an
old mare with the heaves, is Carl Schurz of
| WISCONSIN.
IF we can believe the Republican papers Of
Chicago this Schurz is the most gifted being
that ever mounted the stump, but unfortunate
ly for him we can't believe them, in this or
any other matter, baldfaced misrepres entation
being their bright particular forte
Mr.. Schurz is gentleman of very resneet.
able talents. 1t would be useless to deny this
and we would not deny it if it were not use
less. He is with the black Republican party
simply because it more closely affliates with
red Republicanism. It is true that red Re-
publicanism has not as yet, in this country,
broken out in the shape of assassination, incen.
diarism and in the various forms which have
characterized it in the land where its scarlet
and hideous life was commenced, but as soon
as its principles shall have been selabor ated' -
all this may come.
Mr.. Schurz spoke in the Atheneum last eve
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therefore, tell what he said. But from the
as gigantic pieces of glittering sophistry as
one often hears, it is fair to presume that he is
no more honest or candid when he speaks in
his native tongue.
There was quite crowd present to hear
him. His reputation as speaker would have
secured q fair attendance lad he appeared for
the Bell and Everett party, or even for that
quintessence of double-strained nothingness
the Buchanan n-Breckinridge-Lane abortion
sometimes faeetiously called "party," but this
style of fun is more ghastly than quoting poor
and dismal jokes in a dissecting room and ask.
ing stark and stiff corpse to laugh at them
Before Mr.. Schurz spoke about thirty men
in oil skin capes and tarpaulin hats marched
through some of the streets, carrying torches
and firing off rockets. These persons called
themselves Wide Awakes but they made rath
er sleepy appearance. However few small
boys from the seats of whose pantaioons white
flags of truce were struggling to reach the
open air, followed the oil skin capes and torch.
es and said it was "high."
After speaking at the Atheneum Mr. Schurz
spoke from the balcony of the Angler in En-.
glish, being called out by small crowd that
had assembled in front of that hotel He
spoke very briefly, alluding to the "two wings
of the Democracy, forgetting that the follow.
ers Of Douglas and johnson have the whole
Bird, and that neither wing has been c1t from
it.
After Mr.. Schurz had retired, somebody
proposed three cheers for "Honest Old Ga6e, y
and then the crowd went off and the lights
went out