The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-03-16
Senator Carl Schurx

George Allied Townsend, in one ot,his SYM
pathy Washington letters To the Cbicaco ri.
Juae gives US the following life-like sketch q.
the Great German American statesman, who
has 50 heroicaliy, during the past winter
stormed the outwoyks of corruption and filed
the dogs OF Grants administration with fer.
ror. The portrait was taken on the occasion
of his making his great speech in reply to
Morton and ConhlinS on the question Of in.
vestigating the sale OF arms to France.
sCHURZ III.
At length the man in the chair calls nm tbe
resolution, and says that Mr. Schurz has the
floor.
Then Mr. Schurz stands up in his bIue cloth
coat, plain collar clean shirt, aud black tie, prav
breeches. and long Henry Clay boots. His voice
Is not tuiI or Resonant, but keen, we!l-intoned.
aud plain, and everybody bends fOrw.r to hear
1t. lie says that when mean insinuation, beg.
glng OF the question, and side-thrusts are requi.
site TO defeat AN investigation, the public NAV
well open their ears and know the matter in
hand. 81 this overyboly's ears are well alert,
and lhe speech goes on. Every sentence in il ia
curt sharp and manly. Every point in it IS a
gentlemans point, never intended for mouths
OF lowest censure." Without much tempera.
ment in the speech, il climbs its way up towards
classical climaxes VERY soon Won can see No.
tons haLds woghu. md Lis mouth puckering;
You can see Conkli.g sticking his head down in.
to some imaginative document, and pretending
TO be deeply meditating it. You con see Harlan
reading the Cherokee bill and counting the mo-
ments of his seat in this body. You can see
Nye slipping around % the rear aud suggesting
some gr-ye pllL..1..!.y 10 somebody who is lis
teuiug too iu.cuclv
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on tue floor q TIE $50 ats Iut) the galleries, YOU
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