Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-11-30
Carl SchurZ.

Carl SchurZ.
This eloquent German orator just now oc-
cupies a prominent position before the peo-
pie of this country, on account of the part he
took in the recent political contest in Mis-
souri,, and the threats of portion OF the
Republican leaders in the Senate to read him
out of the party for his course in that cam
paign. Mr.. Schurz may be at times cratic
and his counsels not always safe ones to fol-
low but he is a man of ability and singular
fearlessness of purpose. 1t will be no easy
task for the politicians to - shelve - him,
for he has strong hold on public sympa-
thy and in this country the people and not
the politicians are eventually the stronger
power behind the throne" Political Chi
canery may thrive and prosper for time
but it cannot long override or override the
will of the people. Mr.. Schurz will probably
not quietly submit to be ostracised because
he opposed President Grants policy of in
reference with the political affairs of Mis-
souri,, and when the time comes that the
fearless and fiery Gei man is arraigned before
the Senatorial bar for his course in the Mis-
souri, campaign, we may reasonably expect
to see and hear some rich developments and
such showing up of the politicians as will
be more amusing to the country than it will
be agreeable to the parties themselves. Ii
is to be regretted that the citizens of Mont
pelier were, by sickness in Mr.. Schurz's fam
lily, deprived of the pleasure of hearing this
impassioned orator on the platform of Vii
lage Hall last week The interest now sur
rounding that lecture, would have insured
him full house, and the audience would
have been amply repaid in coming out to
hear, from one himself born and educated in
Germany, version of the Franco German
question, which bids fair to finally embroil
all Europe in general war We notice
that the Lecture Committee of the Citizens
Association had prepared very readable
sketch of Mr.. Schurz for the columns of their
paper, &" Our Lectures" but which will
probably not now be published in that paper.
We cannot, however, refrain from giving our
readers the following extract from that
article
A clear head given by nature and trained
to accurate thought in the best German
schools is good capital to start with. This
Carl Schurz had when, after an experience
in the troubles consequent on the Revolution
of 1S4S-which, if stories are true, was 1ouH-
derbGr, romantic, and unsafe, he some twenty
years since sought the longitude of this
country as better adapted than that of Prus-
to
of his kind of thinking.
Arriving here he for some time pursued
legal studies Gn Philadelphia we think, and
was in 1886 an attorney in Watertown,
W; 'consin- That town ahd the surrounding
cOun. V had large German element in its
population that uniformly voted the straight
Democratic ticket. II was said that Schurz
hired one column a week in Emil Rothe's
German (Democratic) newspaper, intending
to use that space in advocating Fremont
election, and that ROthc backed out" Of the
bargain. At any rate Schurz entered the
campaign that fall as a stump speaker among
the Gcrma Is, and his first entrance into
political life was accepting the Republican
nomination for ASScmblynan in the hope
lcSsly Democratic district of which he was a
resident. His speech in Coles Hall the
evening before the Presidential election OF
l $50 may we'll be remembered by those who
heard it and have since watched the rise OF
the speaker
He well knew the bitter feeling that would
and did arise against him among his fellow
Germans, and as unhesitatingly accepted
the situation then, as he has now done in
Missouri in the face Of party denunciation
and presidential Interference. tAnd, by the
way, if the programme for this winter Is to
read Senator SchurZ out of the Republican
party, it is time for the old Vermont Renub-
may be room for the later converts, Butler,
Drake. Grant and company
In 1857 the Republicans Of Wisconsin run
" Mr.. Schurz for Lieutenant Governor, but
he failed of an election. Removing to Mil
waukee, in the next three years his speeches
on political affairs, made in Massachusetts,.
New York, and elsewhere, gave him a ma
tional reputation. In 1861 he was appointed
minister to Spain, and afterwards a Major
General Of volunteers, serving during the
greater part of the rebellion. Late in 1865
he travelled through the South, making to the
government a valuable report or the condi-
ton of the conquered territory. In 1866 he
was editing a Detroit paper, and took part in
the Fenton-HotfIhan campaign in New York
that year. His reception in Twcddle Hall
Albany, contrasted strangely with that re
ceived ten years before among his country
men in Wisconsin.
His prominence in the Chicago Convention
of 1865, his election in 1869 as L. ). Sena-
tor from Missouri, his success as a debater
on the floor of the Senate, and his independ-
ent course in the late election in Missouri.
are well known.