The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1872-07-27
Senator schuTz's Speech at ST.
Louis

Carl Sehurz spoke at Temple Hall,
St. Louis, on the night of he 22nd, on
the issues of the day. The Republican
makes the following editorial on the
speech
The conspicuous part which Senator
Schurz took in the Cincinnati movement,
and certain disappointment which he
Is understood to have felt at the Cincin-
natl nomination, have caused an eager
and almost universal desire 10 hear from
him on the presidential question aud
for this reason, not less than from the
general interest which all his speeches
excite, this Que will he carefully read
1t bears marks Of thorough preparation,
and Is full of substance. Its the habit
of Schurz 10 look at public questions in
u moral light, even while seeming to i'm
agiue that he is looking at them in a
strictly philosophical light. Other pub
lie men have much to do with oficial re
ports, figures, estimates a9ag3gris ons,
with a view TO exhibit the Direct profit
aud loss involved in the main question
but Schurz leaves these out as mere in
cideutals, aud goes at the moral heart OF
the subject and it is for this reason
that his speeches are accustomed TO com
mand such careful attention and to have
SO much effect on the popular conscience
The present speech may be separated IN
to two divisions Que Is an arralgnment
OF the Republican party and the presl-
dent who has made it 4 presiden-
tial party the other is frank declara
ton of his reasons for supporting Gree
lev and Brown He does not speak Of
President Grant with the perso nal bitter
ness that marks Senator sumner great
indictment be treats him fairly but tor
that reason effectively. lie does not
think there is any C@sarism in Grant.
"a Ii is not a monster of iniquitY ) his
personal government is not inspired by
any grand or lofty and long he,ded am
bition it is absolutely barrenof ideas
and originality it IS simply hull and
heavy, stupid Und stubborn in is selfish
ness" He does not ponder hoV he may
subvert the free Institutions of the coun-
try neither does he ponder how he may
preserve them be does not ponder at all.
He does not mean TO be a despt but
would not be dangerous be weuld not
even be harmful, If be were not serNilely
obeyed and supported by powerful par
ty which has made itself mere append
age to its stolid, unthinking system of
personal government. The Republican
party, Senator Schurz says, has been so
subjugated by the president THAT 1t can
neither breathe nor move except by per-
mission" II have, he says, "stood on
the floor of congress amazed at the COW
ardiy courage, born of desperate causes,
with which to justify the abuses and
misdeeds of the government. Principles
were set up and doctrines advanced such
as would make every friend of popular
freedom grow pale and the fathers OF
the republic turn in their graves" 1t
lie no less q necessity 10 overthrnw such
party than 20 defeat such 4 president, for
If the condition of things now existing
at Washington is 10 continue much lon
ger, Senator Schurz intimates 1.-The strug-
gle for good government must become
vain folly, and We shall soon have to fight
for the very existence of republican in
sttutions."
In connection with his allusion "a the
San Domingo annexation scheme. oena
tor Schurz makes a revelation which is
not creditable to the President, and
which the Senator would not have made
but for the accusation that he quarreled
with the President because the President
refused to allow him to control the fed
eral patronage in Missouri. When the
San Domingo scheme was up, two gen
tlemen, 10 intimate relations with the
White House approached him and prom~
ised him 'all the patronage be desired,
if he would support or abstain from op
posing it. This revelation suggests
many things in explanation of the San
Domingo MYSTERY; and as, according to
Senator Schurz, President Grant will
bring forward the project again, if re
elected, it is valuable as showing how il
is to be carried through the Senate in
opposition to the wish of the country.
The insincere and hypoeritical conduct
Of the administration on the question OF
civil service reform is glariDgly aud
forcibly depicted. The pen which
wrote the message laying before Con
gress the new civil service regulations
was not dry" says the Senator, when
It signed another paper ordering their
suspension. The old traffic in Offices is
without blush, and this very
moment the whole civil service of the
country, from the cabinet minister down
10 the meanest postmaster, is converted
into a vast political agency to secure the
Presidents re election. In this connec.
uon attention will be attracted 10 the
correspondence between Mr. Schurz and
II GRACE Greeley on the subject of civil
service reform, which is incorporated in
the speech. Mr.. Greeley regards the
eiigioiilty of President for a second
term as the occasion for partisan pros.
tltutlon of the civil service; and be he
lieves that the first step toward the over.
throw of this corruption is 10 make the
President ineligible. The Senator iden.
tines the Republican party with the ad,
mlnistration of President CENT and
shows how, in spite of its Coincidence
aud IN spite of its better copv;ctious. it
has been forced to make itself respon
sible for the mistakes aud cr;mas of the
administration, and how 10 vindicate
these crimes it has been Connected to
make the national capitol white
washing laundry" aud he shows that the
first prerequisite to the restora,ion Of the
Union, the correction of abpses. the
establishment of freedom of on;n;on. and
the inauguration of purer condition of
things IA the government is the expul-
sion OF the prostituted party from power
On the subject of the Cincinnati Con
vention Mr. Sehurz does not conceal that
IT'S resnit was not what he had hoped for,
and, therefore. to some extent a disap
pointment He wanted tariff reform
maoe Plain and distinct part of the
great reformatory movement which the