Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-11-05

mourning or tears or the embl0ms Of sorrow.
The great German leader and the littlo end
Of the Presidential ticket will be buried with
some pomp and ceremony, t. Is true, but as
We said without any genuine regret. The
swlss soldiers have fought on every battle
Geld Of Europe, but outside Of Switzerland
they have been buried merely for convenience
sake and as Nsanitary precautlou. Mr.. schurz
Ia a mere Swiss soldier. II Is all mistake to
call him German, for he has nothing OF the
German spirit or the sturdy German blood
in him. The Teuton loves right aud fair play
aud principle. Mr.. Schurz cares very little
about these things, aud Is always ready to
make the best bargain. In the contest whose
sands have almost run out we could have
had him on our side, but we did not bid
high enough In fact we did not bid at all,
because from the very beginning We felt
strong enough to win without the aid Of
foreign mercenarlos; and so the great general
who never won q battle and was always found
among the commissary wagons when no
should be at the front became q retormer-a
reformer at two hundred dollars per reform
speech. II be had been given the post offices
| of Missouri; II brother-ln-law Jussen had not
been cruelty turned out Of place ln Illinois,
the Swiss schurE would be what he now pro-
fessos to so much abhor, aEealous 'renomlua-
ZIONIST"
In Massachusetts another illustrlous mill
tary chleftAln will be gently laid away, not,
however, on that eternal camping ground Of
which he at one time had so many rosy
dreams. Banks was always fond Of campo
more attached TO them than to the field Of
the march, excepting on parade days, when
he seemed greater than Alexander or Ma
polcon, so far as proclamations and bulletin'
and dispatches went. Unlike schurz, Bank
will have some genuine mournors and littl'
pity, for thousands will remember scor'
years ago, and the romantic story oil thu
Sebbln boy, and the splendid rhetoric tina
denver ailed 10 win. There Is no man In tn
m5untry to whom the country felt so mucl
Inclined to be generous and kind aud indulgcn
with as General Banks. There was notAini
that the Republican party could give con
slstently with its own honor and the lnteres
Of the republic that II was not willing to Civ
TO him. fit did not make him what Is calle
a popular idol 1t was because Mr.. Banks him
self destroyed the Illusion, and would In 81;
upon proving that, what we were oil so read
I to believe, gold was, after all, only one Of tn
, baser metals.
All around the circle Of the Union ther
will be mourning and desolation. Those pul
and spotless Liberals will go by the score an
: the hundred, clothed 10 the white robes OF r,
0 form and regeneration, to those regions f
r which they have been 80 long destined-tl
Immaculate Fcnton, the unpurchaseablc NJ
-, Clurc, Curtin OF the Roman virtue and Spa
tau courage, the intrepid Bowles and yirtuo'
o Tuton. But II is.ln tho Tribune office whe
5 the most piteous scene of all will take plac
, Our soul is narrowed at the bare thought
+ what will then aud there be witnessed. VIII
a picture for DOre to paint Sam Sincla
sitting near the once woll-hlled satc, mour
Ing over the loss OF his dividends and the su
o scrlbcrs for tue pet Weekly; DR.. Aver, Il
C leading stakeholder, lamenting the loss
IS all his patent medicine profits in the tomb
, the once great Republican organ; the illust
Gus Benjamin +. Camp Oowailing that q
snug place In the naval office, which NJ
+ Greeley promised him when he was on 4
o top OF the Iidal wave, must now 20 to sou
d dctcsted rcnumlnationist young Nauderb
, tearing his hair at the prospect that there
nothing left for him but to take the advi
which his lAmentcd bcnciactor had 30 Oft
d given him to go West; and Whitelaw Rel
/. with tears in bis eyes, packing his little ca
10 pet-sack, and preparing to take his departu
+. for his rustic home on the banks Of the win
. | Ing Miami.