The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-03-15

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and in politics. In lS48 and 1852 he was
delegate to the Wing National conyen.
tions, and was a warm supporter of both
General Taylor and General Scott for the
Presidency. During the political excite.
ment of 1854 which followed the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise he became a
candidate for Congress from the Thir.
teenth Ohio district, and he was elected
in district which had previously been
democratic by the aid of wings, demo-
Gratis and freesoilers. He was subse-
qucntly reelected to the Thirty-fifth,
fhirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Con-
crosses, and in 1S59-6O he was the re-
publican candidate for Speaker of the
House of Representatives. The contest
was memorable one. For nearly six
weeks the House spent day after day in
voting for presiding officer, the repub-
licans in solid body saying his name over
and over again when the ballot was
called, until it was said that you could
not ask republican member even what
he would have for breakfast without his
shouting, "John Sherman I" In the end,
however, Mr.. Pennington, of New jersey,
was chosen as compromise, Sherman
lacking only one or two votes to secure
his election. During the Thirty-sixth
Congress he was chairman of the Com
mittee of Ways and Means, then a more
powerful committee than now. Previous
" he had served on the committees on
naval and foreign affairs, and gained dis
tinctioa in each. 1t was claimed for him
that his defence of Commodore Paul
ding's course at San Juan was conclusive
against the reflections of the Navy De-
partment, and during the Kansas Ne
braska troubles he gained great distinc
ton as bold and skilful partisan. In
1861, when Senator Chase resigned to
accept a place in President Lincoln's
Cabinet, Mr.. Sherman was chosen to sue
ceed him, and he has remained in the
Senate ever since, serving as chairman of
the Finance Committee and as a member
of those on the Pacific Railroad and the
Judiciary. Although an active partisan
he has never allowed himself to be misled
by party, and he has generally been re-.
garded as one of the fair-minded men of
the Senate. AS a speaker Mr.. Sherman
is chiefly remarkable for his calmness,
lucidity, quiet vigor and manliness of
statements, his rhetoric possessing no Or
namentation and his real power resting
in the good judgment and good sense of
his utterances. He Is very tall, very
thin, lymphatic in temperament, with
brown hair turning to gray, blue eyes, a
fair complexion and a thin beard of
sandy gray hair, only shaved on the upper
lip. He is cold and reserved in manner,
but his friends say that he is cordial and
hearty, and his experience in the Senate
certainly fits him for the new duties to
which he has been called.
CARL scHURz, SECRETARY OF THE IN
CarlSchurz, the new Secretary ofthe In
terror, is German by birth, having been
born at Siblar, near Cologne, March 2,
1929. He was educated at the Gym
nasium of Cologne and the University Of
Bonn. His early life was somewhat
varied, and he figured successfully as a
soldier, newspaper correspondent, editor,
lawyer, &c. He Joined in the revolu.
tionary outbreak in 1S4S and assisted
General Kinkel in the publication of a
liberal newspaper, but after the unsuc-
cessful attempt at revolution at Bonn in
the spring of 1849 both were compelled
to flee. As adjutant he participated in
the defence of Rastadt, and on its sur
render made his way to Switzerland. In.
1850 he rescued Kinkel from the fortress
of Spandau, and then took passage in q
schooner for Leith. In 1851 he was
Paris correspondent of some German
newspapers, and in 1852 teacher in
London. In the latter year he married
and came to this country, first residing,
for three years, in Philadelphia. He
afterward settled at Madison, Wis. In
1856, during the Fremont campaign, he
became noted as a German political
orator, and delivered his first English
speech in 1858, at the time of the famous
contest between Lincoln and Douglas for
the United States Senatorship. Forsome
time he practised law at Milwaukee, and
in 1858 so he gained considerable distinc-
ton as a lecturer. In the Republican
National Convention of 1860 he exercised
great influence, and his political services
were recognized by President Lincoln in
1861 by his appointment as Minister to
Spain. Their was no opposition to him
in the Spanish Cabinet owing to his rev.
olutienary antecedents and he resigned
to accept commission as brigadier gen.
eral of volunteers. He rose to be major
general, and distinguished himself in the
battles of Bull Run, Fredericksburg and
Gettysburg. In 1865 he was the WASH
ington correspondent of New York
paper, and in 1867 he assumed the editor
Ship of the WestHchc Post at st. Louis.
His report as q Commissioner to exam
inc into the condition of the South and
especially on the Freedman's Bureau
was exceedingly distasteful to President
johnson. General Schurz was member
of the Nantional Republican Convention
of 1868, of which he was tempory chair
man. He labored zealously in the Con.
vention for the nomination of General
Grant and subsequently was one of the
foremost advocates of his election. In
January, 1869, he was chosen United
States Senator from Missouri, and soon
gained high distinction in that body.
He became alienated from the admins
tration, however, and with Senator Sum-
ner was violent in his opposition to the
San Domingo scheme, and led in the
famous attack in the Senate on the
French arms charges in 1872. He also
assisted in the organization of the liberal
Republican party in that year, and pre-.
sided over the Convention at Cincinnati
which nominated Mr.. Greely for the
Presidency. His arraignment of Gener-
al Grant and his administration during
that campain was the most scathing and
bitter of all the violent attacks which
were made in the last eight years upon
the man who has just ceased to be Presi-
dent of the United States. In 1875 he
visited Europe, where he was received
with great personal distinction, and in
both England and Germany he was
treated with such marked courtesy and
kindness as had been shown only to such
eminent Americans as Mr.. Eyarts and
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