The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-02
VOL. vi.
CARL scHUnz.-Now AND THEN.

CARL SCHURZ---NOw AND THEN.
1he motives of Schurz in advocating at
this time the success of the Republican
ticket is we'll understood by Germans. He
has been purchased, and his fellow-country-
men, believing this, are no longer led by
him, aud the great majority of them have
learned to scorn him. lie it is, who now
with Morton, Blaine and Conkliug flaunt
the bloody shirt, and call on Grant to oc-
euPy States with military, and if need be
carry them by force of arms. He who
would doubt that Schurz is performing the
part of mercenary in politics will believe
1t when reading the following extracts
from his speeches made in former years.
On the fifth of October, 1872, at Buffalo,
Mr.. Schurz said
n blight has fallen over the South. It
was not so much the war which was the
cause OF 1T as it is the shameful corruption
winch peryades the State governments
Fraud, plunder, shameless robbery-these
are the characteristics of the Southern
State goVernue1t. And who Is responsible
for II! Was it not Grants administration
to which all these robbers, all these plum
dcrers clung for support? But how could
these thieves keep themselves in power?
Their most powerful aid was the Federal
government, and their next powerful aid
hey sought IN the ignorant negro vote.
Secret societies were organized to keep
the negroes in subJection and to make them
vote just as the administration and its SER
wants would want to have them vote. Some
time ago ] had the honor of add dressing
some negro meetings in North Carolina. |
gave them the best advice that l could
give them. L explained TO them what
their best interests would require. l thought
| had made some impression upon them.
| What did hear an hour after the meeting ?
| The leader of one of these secret societies
| had told them that | was not to be believed
because l had been tor slavery all my life,
and wanted to deliver them over to their
| worst enemies.
The thieves control these negroes and it
was under their influence that they have
been arraYed against the whites The
| blat Ks and the whites stand face to face
| rs epemies-for the negroes are under the
| influence OF the most viilainous scoundr els
hat were ever allowed to disgrace a great
and ncble country. If there can be any,
thing worse than civil war it is the war of
races; and these scoundrels have adopted
just the very means to bling about such q
| war. X
In the name of what party have the car
pet-bag governments been founded? In the
name of what party have the carpet-bag
governments been upheld and defended? I?
| Was 1t not the Republican party? Yes, It
was. What party was it that denied am
nesty when it was clear that only by the
eEfranchisement of all intelligent voters
could the influence of the ignorant negro
vote be paralyzed! The Republican party
spurned amnesty, and there was no gleam
of hope that we should ever have universal
amnesty until the Liberal party inscribed
the glorious word upon its banner at Gin
cinnati. u
Do we gain the love of a man by picking
his pocket Do we gain his love by rob-
bing him of his best rights No, this is
not the way to cross over the bloody chasm.
No, this is sacrificing whole continent or
u large part of continent, for the egotism
OF party. This is setting on foot an era
Of despotlsm, despotism which is des-
| pOtism of robbers. | always have been a
Republican, l hope good publican, but
| have been Republican to give the South
Il good government. l have not been Re-
publican. l am not Republican, l will not
be Republican to deliver the Southern peo-
pie over to the worst set of scoundrels that
ever obtained political power.
When the war is over the government
| ought to surrender these extraordinary pre-
negatives, which, though they may save
the republic in times of war, may destroy
its liberty in times of peace. But what
hGve we seen in this country Military
rule has been prolonged, and the country
tn I'm ttY,ln tl,,, 6
powerful, an arbitrary ruler; the Constitu-
tion violated; and to restore the Constitu-
tion it may take the blood of thousands of
people.
We are not fighting merely to make one
man President of the United States in place
of another; but we are fighting for the
overthrow of system-a system of uncon-
stitutional arrogance Of power, a system OF
contempt Of law, a system of government
| by force. system of plundering IN the
South and of corruption in the North;
system which threatens to subvert the
highest good we possess - the freedom of
election all over the United States. ZAP.
| plause. We are fighting against this in
order to substitute for it, another free,
honest, true republican government.
At Syracuse, in the same canvass, he said :
And thus it is that the great nam9, the
great authority of the Republican party in
its national capacity, is being used this
very moment to uphold the most atrociou,
system of government which this country
ever saw. A party which cannot live and
prosper unless it be supported by revival
of the old war feeling, and by tearing open
again the wounds from which the people OF
the United States have bled so long; such q
party, when it has come to that, does not
deserve to live.
Again, at St. Louis, in July, 1879, Schurz
said:
No party can do what the Democratic
party has done without dropping its hister-
ical identity. honor the patriotic spirit of
the men who achieved so tremendous rev.
oluuon, and in the great work before us
| hail with joy and cordiality their alliance
The party that has done this cannot return
TO its old grooves. 1t is impossible. The
| first attempt would shiver it to atoms.
Lieutenant Governor Muller, of Ohio, re-
lates that at the Fifth Avenue conference
last May, when he had read the passage of
his address which follows ''Mr. Schurz
turned to us and remarked plainly. as if it
were self-evIdent matter: That disposes
OF MIR. llayesf" The passage is as fol-
| lows:
'We shall support no candidate. who.
however favorably judged by his nearest
friends, is not publicly known to possess
those qualities OF mind and character which
the stern tasl. of genuine reform requires,
ter the American people cannot afford to