New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-28
A CHARMING CARPET BAeGER-EsS,

Doue'M wrote from Washington the pal
tlculars OF an interview with the Hor
Mrs. Carl Schurz. 1t depicts her as
charming lady in every quality whic
should distinguish wife and mother. 1,
her womanly love for her husband an
children she has manifested one little de
feet which would annul all her claims t,
excellence if she had happened to hav
selected Louisiana as her abiding place
That little defect is that she is as veritabl,
a little carpet-bagger as ever came out O
Connecticut. The interview opens Will
the declaration that Mrs. Schurz had beer
very happy at Washington, and was very
sorry she was going away.
The pertinacious querest then demands
of the lady, "Will you go to St. LOUISE" Tc
which she responds: .'Ah, no; it is to Inc
so strange that the people do think my
home to be at st. Louis. l was not ever
there but once, for four weeks" What
the fathers of the culture City" will say
to such an undisguised apprehension of
having ever made it the home of an ac-
complished lady, we know not. It is an
inadvertent but an intolerable insult; an
injury to real estate; depression of
stocks. What, is st. Louis place to be
dreaded and avoided? Is the future cap
itol inferior to Washington? We appre-
bend nothing less than city meeting. 1t
will have been seen in the late dispatches
that ex-senator Schurz has attempted to
correct this unhappy report, and bolster
up the capital apparent against the un-
lucky and disparaging avowal of his own
family. MIR. Schurz says:
And here must announce circumstance
which may, some time ago, have struck YOU
as rather singular. rImOr was current
through several newspapers of this country
and 1t seemed to ME some " lat industriously
spread by some published 10 this State, that
l would leave the State of Missouri and take
up my residence in New York, or Germany,
or Heaven knows where not. Laughter
Let me take this opportunity to assure my
fellow citizens OF the city of st. Louis and
my personal friends, that l meau to STAY
y
my children-as one of your own. TGreat
applause and cheers.l That l am bound to
the State of Missouri and to the city of st.
Louis. not only by material interest, but
also by feeling and attachment of the heart,
and that the bonds which attach me to this
place and to you, my friends and neighbors,
can not so easily be severed. [Applause.]
Now, in ordinary cases the declaration
of lady that she had no idea of living in
a place, followed by the blus tering asser-
ton of her husband that he would choose
that very place as the permanent resi-
dence of his "wife and family" would
present an issue Of conjugal obedience sus-
ceptible of settlement only upon the as
sertion of supreme authority or the assent
to mutual concessions. The touching
fidelity Of this lady to the fortunes and
fame of her husband gives us assurance
hat she will, as she has heretofore done,
ollow him in peace or in war, in station
'r in private life. and will even make |
hat last sacrifice of social inclina-
ion, and locate in st. Louis itself, |
should his wishes or interests de- |
nand such exaggerated self-denial. But |
o pursue the interview. What picture
# respectable gypsying do these extracts
PRESENT?
l have lived in so many places. 1t is
hat have lived everywhere almost We |
I'd go out to Wisconsin and live in little
fhn psA W
hen, and Carl was studying English.
Lucky for him that he did not under
land it. Fortunate that he was not de-
cended from the men of the two wars of
dependence. He would in that event
ave been ''carpet-bagger." The excel
mt and devoted wife goes on:
did work then. 1 did many things that
ould make Washington ladies open their
yes, but we were SO happy.
Then after while my husband went to
etroit, and you know his career till he
as sent to Spain to be minister there.
We are very glad that Mr.. Schurz was
ways studying and did love the Ameri-
n idea, the republic idea, so much he
d wish to learn it thoroughly 1t is
us perhaps that Spain became so incul-
ted with 'the republican idea" 1t {
ems to have been imperfectly taught by
e neophyte teacher
But the excellent and devoted wife pro- ,
eds:
When my husband was to 90 to Spain. | t
id l will now go home. now to Germany. Z
+ l had been so very homesick here in
nerica our italicsl. 1t was all so strange t
en-, ana did not learn English SO quickly q
my husband. Well, went to Hamburg
d did mean to stay a good while. but
9 war did begin. Carl-he was away in t
,dSiar +
Then she saw chow truly American he @
d grown" She saw she must give him .
1t was very hard, her children were
n so small, but he went with the army c
d she must go to him wherever it was a
ossible place for me to be- Th3 p
noble AID womanly sentiments, and
Mrs. Schurz should realize cher an C,
pated European residence, as stated Il
the interviewer, this republic will lose al
noble mother Of children to whom fir
American language and the repub- "
n idea will be familiar. ia
Is of such that the American empire th
been built up to be the wonder and Sc