New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-11
CARR aGRUHZ.

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the Kingdom of Italy, and we hope he may be
appointed. Among all those who have been
named for Foreign Missions, there is not man
who is better qualified for the service or who
has deserved more of the Republican party.
The ". Y. Times objects to bis selection On
three grounds--as follows:
I Of the very frat importance that our Mris
tsrs should be en- rely from all suspicion Of reddlns With
the political controversies Of Europe Their usefulness %
end the they found Interfering in the domestic du
sensious Of country to which thoy sccredfed'
To which we reply that, while Mr. Schurz
would be very poorly adapted to increasing tho
popularity of our Government at despotic
| Court, and would, therefore, decline an appoint
ment to such Court, he is the very man to re-
present us at Liberal Court, such as that Of
/ Italy is and must be. We have been too long
represented there By one who had no sympathy
with the Italian struggle for sefgoyernment-
no sympathy with struggles for Liberty any
where-and it is high time our Minister at
Turin were man of the stamp of Carl Schurz.
We know that one OF the Sandman Ministers
ten years since asked an American in tone OF
surprise not unmxed with sorrow, how II hap
penei that our Government, claiming TO be
Liberal and progressive, wac 50 QAen represented
in Europe by men who sympathized actively aud
openly with reaction and despotism. 1t ia high
time we were represented by Liberals, at least
at Liberal Courts. We have no belief that Mr.
Schurz would allow his sympathies with Liber-
alism in Germany TO interfere with bis duties to
his adopted country; but, in view, of the exist
ing attitude of Germany toward Italy, we be-
lieTe Mr Schurz ut Turin would be emiuendy
useful at once to our own Government, aud that
Of Victor Emanuel, and would 50 be regarded
and welcomed.
?. The Times's next objection to Mr.. Schurg
is. in substance, the old Native party cry" Put
- none but Americans on guard" II says:
"Ifue had others qualified for heee poss we were
unable to 6ud any dt to represent us abroad
there might then be for committing this most la
porsn. branch public service to foreign hands"
All of which seems to US most invidiOus aud
mistakcn Mr. Schurz is no foreigner-he is an
American citizen--an eminent aud excellent one
and il is grieyously wrong to urge against him
the fact that he was born over the water. Unless
Naturalization is a fraud and sham. be is just a.
eligible to a Foreign Mission as any other American
of equal ability and worth--no less, no more. And
Nl'n OtsDOit HbiShk b''os
diplomatists the names of Pozzo di Borgo and
Nesselrode, it does not seem well for US to recur
10 the narrow bigotry of Nativeism.
3. We must give The TiHeS'S last cayil in full'
We have not the slightest objection any home prouOtio
which gentlemen may receive from their owcizenss
home Mr. Scaurz Is eoquen. aud popular politician
Wcou1lo, lin receive at ,he hands Of that State any Office
IN ga IN Let him b. Governor Ser s,or, receive fomthe
President any ocs he may ht give him In recognition OF
HE services Il hone But trust he win not tTesp@s opon
regard the edcn. prophecies Of The case By pushing
hi, claiais ros mission sbrosd'
This is pleasant There is no U. s. Senator
to be chosen in Wisconsin for the next two
Years; and then the Federal Constitution Art
l., : y expressly forbids Mr.. S,hurz's election.
Sir years hence the first election of Senator will
occur at which Mr. Schurz viii be eligible, as
he must have been at least fourteen years resi-
dent and nine years citizen OF the United
States before lie can sit in the Senate. And in
several OF the States--(we know not how it may /
be in Wisconsin -there is a restriction at least
equally stringent on the eligibility Of Adopted |
Citizens TO the Goyernorship.
Tie Times mistakes Mr.. Schurz altogether. i
He is not 4" q popular politician Of Hisconss
merely. but known TO and loved by the Republi-
cans of three-fourths of the Union. Among tho
leaders of the host that struggled at Chicago last
May for the nomination Of Gov. Seward, there
may have been several more conspicuous ous
hardly one more influential, and in the canvass
that followed, we believe the speeches oil no
other man gained so many votes for Lincoln and
Hamlin a. did those Of Carl Schurz. A profound
scholar. a ripe and thoughtful statesman, and an
ardent deyotee of popular rights and liberal lnsu'
tutions. we know of no man more admraov
qualified to represent the greatest Repuohc 90
earth al the Court of the liberal and popular rue'
of uprisen, regenerated Italy. We noPe'
therefore, to chronicle his appointment