The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-26
Speech Of Senator schur1.

q County Executive Committee, Senator
6churz delivered u very lengthy and
elaborate address, of which the follow.
ing is an outline. The Senator started
out by saying:
'Standing before my constituents, I
deem 1t my duty to give an account of
my public conduct, the motives which
have governed it, and the ends it is in
tended to secure. can do this in no
better way than by expressing fully and
frankly my views on the events which
have produced the present extraordinary
situation of our public national affairs,
events In which took small part, and
also to state what consider it my duty
as patriotic citizen to do in order to
promote the best interests OF the re-
public.
1T has been my misfortune to dis
please many with whom co.operated in
the political field for many years, and
with whom now, with great regret, find
myself separated. To the attacks with
which some of them endeavor to over
whelm me have but one answer" He
then reiterated what he has previously
said about never considering his party
the supreme arbiter of his sense of duty.
He then said: "When I was honored
with seat in the Senate Of the United
States, I expected to support the Admi-
nistration which then came into power.
The tasks it was called to perform were
of unusual Importance. The civil war
was over; its logical results, the aboli-
tion of slavery and the organization of
free labor society in the South, we're Just
being reduced to political form, and i'm
bedded in the Constitution of the re-.
public. The frst great object of our
policy should have been to renationalize
the Southland revive among the South
ern people q feeling calculated to attach
their hearts again to the fortunes of this
Union; for let us not indulge in the de-
lusion that the holding together by force
OF its component parts is basis upon
which airepublic can safely rest or long
endure. It requires bond which binds
together the hearts of the people and
not their bodies. Only to create that
bond was for us the highest object of
statesmanship.'"
He then referred in detail to the differ
emit acts Of the Administration party.
going over the ground traversed by him
self and others in the Senate.
In regard to the San Domingo matter,
he made the following statement:
"When the San Domingo scheme was
pending. two gentlemen in intimate rela-
tions with the White House came to me,
each one separately, soliciting my sup
port OF the project. They assured me,
if would give that support or abstain
from opposition, all the patronage I de-
sired would be at my disposal, making
me in that respect one of the most influ-
ential men in the land. One of these
gentlemen subsequently admitted to me
in writing that the offer was made to me
with the consent of the President him
SELF" .s,
he said that he had withheld this
statement long time. in spite of many
provocations, and madei It now only be-
cause. as the papers have recently stated,
the President himself put forth the as
sertion in q published interview that he
(Schurz) has opposed him because he
had not received as much patronage as
he wanted.
He then dwelled upon the abuses of
patronage and evils Of the civil service,
stating there never was time when the
latter wes more like thoroughly drilled
and disciplined organization of political
agents, or when the public interest was
more shamelessly overruled by political
exigency.
1soIorEiuS I'd TI0Siu6nt dtanG, ne said:
II should prefer not to speak of him, did
he not stand as the embcdiment and
personification of the pernicious system
which derives from his individuality its
peculiar character. Gratitude for his
military services and respect fox his Office
have long restrained many from express.
ing their real opinions concerning him.
shall be the last man to forget or to
carp at the great services he has rendered
in the field of war.
1.-The honors he has won, the laurels
he has gathered, shall not be touched;
but now he is O civil officer, and he asks
us to continue him at the head OF the
OWL government. With this question,
his laurels have nothing to do. When
he assembled the Presidential chair, it
may be said the whole people surrounded
him with cordial offers of their confi-
dence. and willing to aid in all he might
90 TO give the country good govern
ment. There was not statesman in the
republic who would not have been
ready, nay. proud, to serve him at his
call. He might have reinforced his sup
porters from the ranks of the opposition.
Accidental mistakes VIC I'D have been