Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-04-28
What President navIs Did say.

to be fair and correct version
Recently Mr.. Davis ut this ti,no the
most iDofonsiye end nnoflenGinP, while
certainly by far the most distinguished Gf
ell living Americans, and whose reputl
ton, notwithstanding our civil WAY, ia ne
cessarily pal IF tie national glory Of the
United Slater, had ccasicn to visit Mont
gomery and Selma on the business OF a
| life insurance company OF which he is the
| President. He row resides ut Memphis
! He was received and treated here with the
greatest respect, AM our people, a6 all de
cent men must admit, only exhibited u
natural and proper self rcspt CT in honor
ing him. He bad an opportunity, did he
desire it, to make several political speeches
while in our city but he never alluded to
| the subject Of .LOiitiGs on any public oc-
casiOn Gwen remotely, AMI his private
fcOaVeI6atioB on such * pics was guarded,
| At Selma, it seems, he was also called on
| to address the citizens, ald his only direct
allusion to any political subject was to in
| dIl8c in the hope that ho might yet wit
| ness the rest IravlUn of the old principles
of State sovereignty in o1r governmental
system. IL other words, he desired to
| witness the restoration Of the Constitution
| Of Washington and the Fathers: and he
| further EXPRESSED The hope that. rs either
| the principles Of State sovereignty or CEN
tralization mnst prevail that tho people OF
! the United States would .c5 discover, in
| time, though perhaps not IN his day, that
| the principles of State sovereignty, APP
parently lost by the defeat and surrender
of the Southern Confedoracy, constituted
| the life Of true liberty and ihe eolid fOuu-
dation for tie h armony and happiness Of
! the people. .-rs .aat
| Mr. Davis did not make the lemotest
allusion TO parties. What ho said was in
the nature, aa it we're, or o philosophical
1
| longer possessed the slightest egctistic or
personal selfinterest in the subject about
| which Lo 81 oke.. Nor did he invite the
| presence Of the asscmbiage that made II
proper and becoming that he should speak
On the 0ccasior. Indeed, We do not be
liov0 tina. President Davis processes to be.
| long to any political party. His express.
| sion OF opinion on the question of 8
preference of State sovereignty to military
| centraliza ior, is no evidence Of his party
a1ui"'ion, and he has given no othcr.
r.ospondfncc Il the Ne (1tich.l U.ln .cga' !.
April s.
C&EI Schurz
WHO is Carl Sohurz? A German by
| birth, and without doubt the most eloquent
| paturolized citizen o. the United States at
! this time. He is the Bismarck Of America
| among the Germans, It may be said of
him as Of Thoms Adds Emmett, natu-
rallied Irish citizen, whose tomb stone il
il Trinity church yard, aad whose euloGy,
| as written b. Julian q. Vorpiank, descrlb
eG his private life as beautiful eui E;S
public career brilliant.
It was CARL iochufn vino, w his clio
qlence and by his stump speeches III the
west elected Abraham liocoln PRESIDENT
It was Carl Schurz who, by bis German
influence, carried the State OF Missouri
by an overwhelming majority for Abraham
Lincoln and Ltadicaiisnl, aud at IL hubso
qaept time, with his friend l1taiZ HgoTn,
r9puoliateQ tAo tcsb oath, SD Cb4UX.OHs tOI
tie American people; ana tb3S allowed
CVary white citizen in tho :5.itte 10 V0tU or
IA cquaiity with The negro. Iho contest
for the repeal OF the test oath, led on by
Carl Schurz and Gratz Brown, was the
most bitter over known u the State OF the
country. At this time Carl Schur2 was
United states Senator from NJ jsouri His
colleague was Charles T. Drake, said to
be Of Pg1 .sanical plymouth Rock origin
from New England. During this Canvass
in Missouri Drake end Schurz, Senators,
enreraQ into q violent contest. SchurZ
succeeded, and, with his friend Gratz
Brown, swept the State by overwhelm
ing majority.
1t was Carl Schurz who, in deba;o in
the United Stat Serate with his colleague
Drake. was mQssiyely aTgumentativo and
eloquent, while Drake, III his reply, showed
himself nothing but the partisan, the Dc
claimer, gnd the demagogr o. The tes'-
oath was Eepudlated, and Democrat,
Frank Blair, was elected United States
Senator in tho heretofore strong Radical
State.
It was Carl Schurz who, once in q spec h
at Chicago advocating the e'cotion of Abra-
ham Lincoln, eaii, with reference 10 the
rise and fall of The Republican IDEAS il
Frat CD, Tho logic of events is the great
| idea OF the age, and no man IN this world
can define the coufSa or result.
| 1t was Carl fscLurz who, lately IN the
United States Senate, asked, ''Should the
! Senators of the Republican party sacrifice
| themselves TO the whims Of one man."
| and, bnt few days ago, attributed Cam
eron's appointment Is chairman Of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs to a new
propeling power UNIV orthy the Better days
of the republic. +. '.+...-
Senate, in q discussion of the Presidents
course menacing Hay!i and sending war
vessels 10 San Domingo, has made the
most eloquent argument ever made in that
body. It is said that the keen irony and
telling hits rendered it quite impossible to
restrain tho plaudits in the gallery, and
the result was that his opponents. in order
to prevent further d1ScuselOn, tabled the
bill. Ii Carl Shurz keeps himself above
mercenary motives, he viii be the greatest
man in America. -.s ......
Tom Marshall, of Kentucky, known as
an Incorporate and probably the most
eloquent man as q speaker IN tdo United |
States, in the House of Representative in |
Congress, had an encounter with John |
Quincy Adams in debate. He was COM
pletely aanihiIatcd by the veteran states
man, and, it is said, never afterwards made |
4 public speech. It is said of Tom Mar
shall, at G subsequent time, that o dis
tinguished Southern member of the House
commenced al onslaught on Mr.. Adams,
and upon an adjournment Of 5ho House,
MARSHALL, arm IL arm with the member,
said You have attacked John Quincy
Adams. [ can MY say, tod Aate meycyt
,l)011 you." Now, say to General Grant,
if The Bismarck of America, previous to
the next Pr s;dent;ul election and during
the canvass, s1ouid take the stump against
Won with the Immense German yAta nf