The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-29
CARL SCHURZ.
SOME WORDS ABOUT THE MAN.

SOME WORDS ABOUT THE MAN.
The New York Tribune, speaking editorl-
Rlly. thus comments upon the cou!so VI 81
Senator Schurz and expresses certain views
upon politics which should DC cons'oe'oo "
part:sans very thoroughly:
When Gen. SchurZ returned 10 ms nome IN
st. Louis the other day, he was received
With 4 warmth and cordially which must
have been highly gratifying. A few months
aoo. when the Legislature Of his State passed
over his name with absolute neglect, not
even considering him among the er-
sons from whom their choice OF a
Senator was to be made, and sent
TO Washington in his place now man
without any 81 Inns to such honor except per-
sonsl participation in the rebellion, Mr. Scnurz
might not unnaturally have conciudcd tnat
the best sort of honest and Intelligent PuD.c
service was not appreciated or cared LOT ~ Ile
fellow citizens. But the hearty recePuon 10
received on his return, and the wel'closon
words OF welcome and continued conf fence
uttered by Mr.. CAN'T, must have gone liam .a :"
convince him that the respect and esteem
which he has won from the whole country ~
his independent and able conduct IN inc oc.-
ate have had their effect even upoa Mlssoul.;
Unfortunately the people who demanu az
who are grateful for the best klnd o. w. w
are as vet not numerous there Inc me.-
bers of the Legislature are sufnclenuy 'al.
snecimens of the average indulgence anu
nnblic shirt Of the citizens, and tney Sat Iof
a long time in an absolute dead-'ocA' c.sun6
their votes for a half dozen obscure paE:.Sans,
aud apparently never dreaming tnst ~
expected of them to vote for MI. ocnulz tIo
,,o;nt If view in which he was not their most
tthorouohly available candidate. He was one
If the most distinguished statesman in the
conntry: no living Missourian, IT VIC except
Frank Blair, has anything like his national
He was universally recognized as man OF
deem insight. wide information aud more than
rasnectable learning. He was. after the death
of Mr.. Sumner, unquestlonably the hrst ora
tor of the Senate, with moro than MIR. sum-
ner's power in direct persuasive statement
These considerations would certainly nave
some effect upon men OF ordinary anteiii-
renee. But there were far stronger reasons
whv Missourians should have desired to keep
NJ Schurz in the Senate as their representa-
tive. He could do them more good, by reason
Of his high personal and political standing,
than any man they could send. He had just
made a powerful and convincing speech in
favor of the cause of self-government in the
South, embodying the very ideas which the
majority IN. Missouri pretend to hold. His
nosition and his antecedents gave especial
force and importance to this appeal. Such
sne.ch in France or in England, where repre-.
sentstion is not SO strictly limited by local
boundaries, would have caused tho man VINO
made it under such circumstances TO be
chosen from half tho districts in the country
where the majority were struggling IN the
cause which he SO magnifcently supported.
Rut the Legislature of Missouri gave no sign
Of ever having heard of the man or Of bis
work. They quarrelled good while over the
Senstorship, as if it were bone, and Mr.
Cockrell got it.
There was only one reason for this absurd
performance. Gen. Schurz was not regular
partisan Democrat He wore NO collar. q
STAMPED and labelled, and this was snfhcien
reason in the minds of the Missouri legisla
tors-not for rejecting him-but for neve
thinking OF him for a moment. 1t is thu
blind. stupid, inert craftsmanship which is tn
cause of most of the evils under which tn
country has suffered SO long. It either keep
the best men out Of public life. or make
hypocrites and cravens OF them when the
once get in.
AS long as it exists in full force, there is n
hope Of any progress or reform. IN SON
parts OF the country it is already giving way
thanks to individual thinking and independ
emit voting. Neither party, for obvious req
sons, can assist in breaking down tn
irrational and immoral craftsmanship. 1t mus
be left to the efforts oflhonest, intelligent AM
public spirited men in private life. It is th
work that they can do in this direction ina
consoles us for the loss of such men rs MI
Schurz from official life. His speech Ut 81
Louis contains cheering promise.
He does not in leaving the Senate, surren
der his interest in public affairs, but propose
to continue as citizen the fight against "a
iessness and corruption, in which he ha
borne himself SO calamity as Senator. FOL
tics have too long been matter Of mechar
ism, Organization has hitherto carried tn
day too easily. The work of the independen
press and of thinking and conscientious me
should now be directed more to the spirit tha
ever before.
A few thousand men in every State, intel
ligent enough to know what they want: an
independent enough to vote for it. in spite
caucuses or regular machines, would put bot
parties under terror and compel REASONABLE
decent measures and decent candidates 9
both sides. In few States we think that r
suit has been substantially reached. In
the rest, this is the most pressing missionarr
work tor men who believe in honest govern
Ment.