Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-08-01
speech pf Carl sehurz al St.

speech jsf Carl sshurz al St.
Louis.
At the Liberal Republican meet
ing in St. Louis, on Monday night
the 22d, called for the purpose o
electing a County Executive Com
mittee, Senator, schurz delivered ! 1
very lengthy and elaborate address
! Of which the following is a mere out
line. The Senator started put by
saying:
Standing before my constituents
I deem it my duty to give an ac'
conns of
! MY PUBLIC CONDUCT,
The motives which hare governed it
and the ends it is intended to sub.
serve. I can do this in no better way
j than by expressing my views on the
events which have produced the
present extraordinary situation o1
our public national affairs-eyents in
which I took a small part; and also
to state what I consider ii my duty,
as a patriotic citizen. to do in order
TO protect the best interests Of the
Republic. It has been my misfortune
! to displease many with whom | CO.
operated on the political fell for
many years, and from whom | now,
| with great regret, find myself sepa-
rated: Tc the attacks with which
some of them endeavor to overwhelm
me, have but one answer"
He then reiterated what ne had
previously said abput never con-
sidering his party the supreme ar
bitter Of his sense of ddty. then
said: '',o
When I was honored'%hh d scat
in the Senate Of the United States,
I expected to support the Admins
tration which then came into power.
The tasks it was called to perform
were of unusual Importance. The
civil war was over. Its logical re-
suits, the sbolition ofslsvery and the
organization Of free labor and society
in the South, was just being reduced
to political form and imbedded in
the Constitution of the Republic. The
4 first great object Of our policy should
| have been to
RENAT1oNALrzE THE SOUTH,
To revive among the Southern peo-
pie feelings calculated to attach their
| hearts again to the fortunes of this
Uniop. For let us not indulge in the
delusion that the holding together
by force of its component parts is "a
basis upon which a Republic can
salelyrest or long endure. It re
quires that bond which binds togeth-
er the hearts of the people, and not
their bodies only, and to create that
bond was for Us tho highest object of
craftsmanship"
He then refers in detail to the diff
ferent acts of the Administration
party, going over the gtound travers-
ed by himself and others in the
Senate. In regard to the San Domin
90 matter he made the following state
ment:
.tWhen the San Domingo scheme
wss pending two. gentlemen, 10 int
mate relations with the White House,
came to ms, each one separately, So
liciting my support o! the project.
They assured me if I would give
that support, Or abstain from opposi-
ton,
ALL THE PATRONAGE I DESIRED
Would be, at my disposal, making me,
in that respect, oneof the most inau-
entail men ingthe land. One of these
gentlemen subsequently, adlMtted to
me in writing that theofer was made
with the consent Of the President
himself I
BE said that he had withheld this
statement a long time, in spite OF
many provocatiOna, and made it now
only because, as the papers have re-
Gently stated, the President himself
put forth the assertion ip a published
Interview that he (Schurz) has opPos,
ed nim because he bad not received
as much patronage as be wanted. He
then dwelt upon the abuse Of pat
rdpage, and the evils of the civil SER
vice, stating that there never was q
| time when the latter was more like
disciplined organization Of political
| agents, or when the public interest
was more shamelessly' pyerNlel by
political exigency. Referring to
GENERAL GRANT,
he said:
II should prefer not to speak of
him, did he not stand the embodl-
ment and personifeation Of the per-
nicious system which derives from
his individuality its peculiar charac-
ter. Gratitude for his military ser
vices and respect for his Office have
long restrained many from express
ing their real opinions concerning
him / shall be the, last man to for
get or to carp at the great service he
has rendered in the field of war. The
honors he has won, the laurels he has
gathered, shall not be touched. But
now he is oiYil officer, and he asks
US to coutinue him at the head Of the
OWL government of this Republic.
With this question his laHrels have
nothing to do. When he assembled
the Presidential chair, it may be. said
the whole people surrounded him
with cordial offer Of their conf
dence, and willing. to aid ip all that
he might do to give the country good