Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-09-23
CARL SCHURZ AT NASHVILLE,
Plain Talk to the Democrats.

Senator Schurz, of Missouri, by invita-
ton, spoke at Nashville on the Goth. We
make some extracts from his interesting
address.
Speaking of corruption and ignorance he
said .1-srv~ -Hf -
Look at what is going on in New York.
The Tammany robbers are no carpet-bag-
gers, and their constituents are no negroes.
But the bags of the Tammany men are
ten times bigger with plunder than the
bags in the South, and their Democratic
followers have supported them through
thick and thin with more stubborn obedi-
ence than you observe in the colored vO-
ters What happens Finally, the hon.
est men take courage and unite, the citi-
zen begins to rise above the partisan, and
they are in q fair way to overcome diff
culties of more intricate O nature than
would stand in the way of the united law
and order men of the South. That large
number of voters in the South are unedu-
Gated, ignorant and inexperienced, readi-
ly admit, and you certainly will also adj
nit that they are not to blame for it. The
evils springing from that circumstance
appreciate. How can they be remedied
Certainly not by killing and whipping ne
groes in the kuklux style, and using mis-
government as plea of Justification, just
as little as similar evils in New York could
be cured by killing or whipping poor
Irishmen on account of the rapaciOus mis-
rule of Tammany. By such doings things
are made only worse. No, the best way to
neutralize the evils growing from popular
ignorance in States like yours is to estab-
lish and enforce an efficient system of pub
lie education. Cheers.
A DIGREssIoN.
Of all the applause l have. received to- day,
there has none done my heartSas much good as
this. [Renewed applause.] Here l have to
drift away from my argument a little. i am
German, and every German heart was lifted up
by those great deeds which were performed re-
Gently in France. They say Germany has great
soldiers and great determination. Do you know
who performed those deeds that are held up to
the world as beacon lights to follow? Not the
German general, but the German schoolmaster
[Cheers.] Well, then, ifthe schoolmaster could
do such things in Germany, why should he not
be able to do them in America? If he could do
them at the North, why could he not do them
in the South? MM
/ am sure whatever preconceived opinions
may still stand in the way Of this idea, the
Southern people will, in the long rum not fail
to recognize that although it may have appeared
good for slave to be ignorant, it is certainly
good for freeman TO be intelligent and well in
formed. Its educated, intelligent labor that free
labor society demands. have frequently been
told that colored people cannot be educated up
to as high a standard as white men. Without
going into an argument on that point, l will
merely observe that some people of whatever
race cannot be educated up to as high a standard
as others, but it is the evident and imperative
interest of free labor society, and of republi-
can community, that every human being should
be educated up to as high level as he can
reach, and in promoting popular education |
see another great blessing which the movement
l am advocating might confer upon these States,
The Nashville Banner might draw some
profitable lessons from Senator Schurz's
remarks on corruption. 1t might see in
the plaudits awarded the New York Times
what great credit fearless, incorruptible
| journal wins in this country in waging a
war on public plunderers. Let it then re.
fleet upon the attitude it occupies in this
State. A publisher of obscene libels fo1
pay, voracious feeder 'at the public
crib" asking and receiving pay only four
times for the work it does for the overbur-
dened tax payers of the State. How cruel
too, for such paper to make war on 9
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