The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-05-13
Carl SchurZ I'm ST. Louis.

On the return of Carl Schurz to St. Louis
from Washington city, last week, his friends
and admirers of both political parties gave
him a most enthusiastic reception. In his
speech replying to this spontaneous vel
come, he takes the same elevated, manly
and conservative ground that has thus far
distinguished his career in the Senate. 1t
is very evident that he does not court any
fdrors from the White House, and that he
entertains supreme contempt for its fro,Cns.
The following is the main portion Of his
speech on this occasion:
see before me, think. thousands of
republicans with whom | have faithfully
cO-operated for many years in the advocacy
of the true republican cause, and who now
manifest their approval of my course with
regard to questions on which the republican
party is agreed, as we'll as TO others which
form the subject Of difference Of opinion.
took also into the faces of thousands of DEM
ocrats, l think, who have not come here
with the expectation that | had gone over
to their party, but. as their distinguish he'd
spokesman informs me, to show their appre-
citation of the spirit with which, in obedience
to my honest convictions, / have eudeavored
TO serve what | believe to be the common
interests of the whole American people
LCheers.]
This demonstration is in point of charac.
| ter and composition so peculiar, so unusual
as to be apt to become embarrassing to
public man under ordinary circumstances
embarrassing for the simple reason that in
tho presence Of two parties the approval of
one side might make him appear undeserv-
I in lF oua1 Of fha
other. 1t is by no means embarrassing to
me. as it will never be embarrassing;to me to
sec the whole people of Missouri before me.
[Cheers. Indeed l see in it one Of the
hopeful signs of the times.
L will state to you how our present situa-
ton presents itself to my mind. We are
not surrounded by the ordinary exigencies
of political warfare. The country has pass
ed through terrible conflict. 1t must be-
Tue supreme object of selicitude to every
patriotic man in the land, not to reopen
and continue the conflict for party advau-
tage, but to close it finally and forever
| Were we to continue it, then indeed the
separate and sharply antagonstic action Of
political parties would be in order. But if
we mean to close it. it can be we'll done
only by certain union of sentiment and
cooperation between them, and therefore
am glad to see the two parties united before
me tonight. [Choers.
Yes, strunge as it may sound to the ear of
the strict partisan, l do not hesitate to de-
clare my conviction. that there is central
object of paramount importance, to which,
in spite of all other differences of opinion,
the patriotic men Of both parties must de-
vote their efforts. and the accomplishment
OF which must stand to them above all self
ish considerations. The new order of things
which has sprung from the civil war, has,
in its main features, become an accom- plish-
ed fact. which can neither be subverted, nor
can it be peaceably sustained by one sided
party action.
All efforts to overthrow it will be utterly
in vain. for it is the outgrowth of the very
logic of things. But to secure it peaceably,
there is one thing infinitely more potent,
and more needed, than the pressure Of force
and that is, the restoration Of fraternal feel
ing among all the people. Cheers j
That cannot be brought about by the ac-
ton of one party alone-it requires the CO.
operation of both. and the party that refuses
that cooperation will load upon itself a
grave if pot fatal responsibility. Renewed
cheering !
1t may appear chimerical to speak of the
return of fraternal feeling in the face Of the