New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-04
CARL sCuyRZ.


The Herald, chagrined at the signal refutation
of its repeated and confident assertions that Carl
Schurz would not be assigned to any important
Mission, thus assalls his appointment to Spain:
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schurz Lncons Minister to Spain the most loyal and In
flexible Catholic Power the face Of the earth VIII be very apt
prove troublesome appointment schuz we are not i'
taken IL not only rabd Black Republican Of the ultra Anti
Slavery type but rsntng Red Republican Of the JAcoon
school, Vho yerHdiafe, Chr'aH regoH in orerp form
a, an inposrs and pAo b,tei in The Godde" Of Rsa'oH'
The Court OF Madrid Is the last psee In the
world which such man should be detailed s
Of the Government and people Of the Uled
States considering the movements OF spain Tor the seizure
and dominon OF both ends Of the And OF
Hsyd such obnoxious character as sehaz
be expected to exercise Madrid in behalf Of the United States
one way or the oiber His Rcd Republican aneceent' onot
fail make his appointment offensive TO Queen Isabella and her
Cabinet and with them his Black Republican principles will
hardly be less obno1ou But schuI had the German legion Of
the West hi. back and this the price which Honest Old
Abe has had to pay for hi, whistle"
The baseess falsehOOds which make up nine
tenths Of the above TRADE would be contemplate
but for their persistent iteration. The assertions
that Mr.. Schurz " repudlates the Christian rel-
/" gon in every form as an imposture, and believes
&c in the goddess Of Reason are simply campaign
lies which ought to have been left after the
election to sink into charitable oblivion. Yet
The Herald The Express, and other such journals,
have continued to assert that Mr.. Schurz has
spoken of the Creator as 4" the supposed gentle
" man behind the stars"-which is naked and
wantOn fabrication. If his appointment were not
intrinsically strong and popular, would it be
necessary TO resort 10 such gross fasehoods in
order to assail 1t
The residuum of truth that remains in the
above diatribe, after the precipitation of its
groundess calumnies, is simply this-Mr. Schurz
is not a Roman Catholic and is a Republican.
That is the sum total. But, 80 far ns We are
aware, this country has never sent Catholic
Minister TO Spain she certainly has not usually
done 30. Spain never yet imagined this cause
of ofense: why should she now' And if che
wishes our Republican Administration to be rep.
resented at her Court at all, why not by Re.
publcan' Why should she expect or desire any
Minister from our Government but one who
faithfully embodies its principles and reflects its
sentiments
For eight years past, the attitude of our Gov
ministrations, has been a standing menace and
danger to Spain. The appointment of tho fill.
buster SOule to her Court was an insult which
she would not have broOked two centuries ago.
The manifesto respecting Cuba put forth from
Ostend by Buchanan, Soule and Mason, our Min
listers TO Great Britain, France and Spain re-
spectively, was an outrage 80 gross that the
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in requiring its explicit dsayowal, and indicated
declaration of war as the necessary alternative.
We happen to know that that manifesto was at
first denounced as a forgery by our Democratic
Minister at European Court, simply on the
ground of its intrinsic ncredibillty. The resou-
tons Of our recent Democratic National Conyen.
TONS into one of which our late President con-
sidered his personality absorbed, were hostilltes
to Spain if regarded as serious, and indgnities if
deemed simply electoneering clap-trap.
Mr.. Schurz goes to Spain as the official en-
bodiment of new and radically different
tendency in our National Councils. He ia the
representative of an Administration that has not
the smallest desire to aegrandize our country ut
the expense of a nation which rendered substan.
tal aid to our fathers in their struggle for indie
pendence. lie represents Government which
covets no single acre of Spain's possessions, and
which will in all things respect not merely the
rights but the sacred traditions and the generous
susceptbilites of proud and honorable nation
which does not forget that it was once the first
Power on earth, and which, while it has since
encountered reverses and misfortunes, has for the
last twenty years, under liberal and enlightened
rule, been steadily and rapidly rising through its
own inherent energies, acting upon the grandest
natural resources, to its proper place among the
foremost Kingdoms of Europe. That nation is
not likely to overlook the fact that, while other
European Powers are grumbling at our new Tariff
as Injurious to their industry, her great colony
is rejoicing in reduction by that Tariff Of the
duty formerly imposed on her chief staple, Sugar,
amounting to nearly or quite one-third. The
new duties on raw Sugar and on MOasses will not
average more than twenty per cent, while their
specific assessment precludes the possibility Of
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