The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-17
AS CARL sCHUz SAW THEM.
Seward the Sorcerer and Douglas the
 Parliamentary Pugilist.

Seward the Sorcerer and Douglas the
 Parliamentary Pugilist.
 In the second section of the late Carl Schuzs "reminiscences, now running in McClure's Mazazlhe, there are two in- teresting pen portraits. Of Seward he said:
 There was to me something myster- ious in the small, wiry figure, the thin, salloW face, the overhanglng eyebrows and the muffled voice of Seward I had read some of his speeches and admired especially those he had delivered on the compromise of 1850
 "The broad sweep of philosophical reasoning and the boldness of state- ment and prediction I found in them, as well as the fine flow of their lang uage, had greatly captivated my ima- gination. l had pictured him to myself, as one is apt to picture ones heroes, as an imposing parsonage of overawing mien and commanding presence.
 T was much disappointed when I first saw that quiet little man who as he moved about on the floor of the Sen- ate chamber, seemed to be on as friendly terms with the Southern Sen- ators as with the Northern-his speech es were always personally polite to everybody whose elocution was of dull sound, hardly distinct, and never had a resonant note of personal attack or defiance in 1t.
 But he made upon me, as well as upon many others, the impression of a man who commanded hidden, occult powers which he could bring into play if he would. Indeed, I heard him spoken of as a sort of political socerer who knew all secrets and who con- manded political forces unknown to all the world except himself and his bos- om friend. Thurlow Weed, the most astute, slzillful and indefatigable politi- cal manager that had ever lived.
 My most distinct recollections are of the Senate. The most conspicuous figure in that body was Douglas. He was a man of low stature but broad shouldered and big chested.
 Ills head, sitting upon stout, strong neck, was the very incarnation of forceful combativeness; a square jaw and broad chin; rather large firm set mouth; the nose straight and some what thick; quick, piercing eyes with a deep, dark, scowling, menacing horl- zontal wrinkle between them; a broad forehead and an abundance of dark hair which at that period he wore rather long and which, when in excite ment, he shook and tossed defiantly like a lions mane.
 "The whole figure was compact and strongly muscular, as if made for con- stant fight, He was not inaptly called the Little Giant by his partisans.
 His manner of speech accorded ex- actly with his appearance. His senten- ces were clear cut, direct, positive. They were straight to the mark like bullets, and sometimes like cannon balls, tearing and crushing. There was nothing ornate, nothing imaginative in ! his language no attempt at beautiful speaking
 But 1t would be difficult to surpass his clearness and force of statement when his position was right; or his skill in twisting logic or in darkening the subject with extraneous, unnes- sential matter when he was wrong. or his defiant tenacity when he was dr,v- en to defend himself, or his keen and crafty alertness to turn the defence in- to attack, so that even when over whelmed with adverse argument he would issue from the fray with the air of the conqueror."