Year: 1877




trucking to-
sincerely hope the courteous and punctili- |
Gus gentleman who edits the DEMOCRAT will |
for once disuse the pencil which he is wont to
draw through my epithets, and print those /
have applied to Mr.. Schurz verbatim et Rtera-
tim, for that shall be in Washington before
this letter can get back there from New Or
leans, and 1t cannot be said that have taken
advantage of distance. II can be said to
have taken advantage of anything, it will be
rather


THE CowARDICE OF MIR. sCHURz.


which Is as well known to me as his menda-
city or his lack Of honor.


will relate an incident Some years ago I
wrote q letter from Washington to the st.
Louis Republican defining the attitude which
Mr.. Schurz would sustain In the State can
vass then pending, in which he was to take
part as an avowed candidate for reelection to
the United States Senate. This letter was
written with the privity Of Schurz, and was
actually revised and corrected by certain
friends of his, so that was warranted in de-
claring it authoritative. 1t was intended
as the key note of the campaign, and as such
was proceeded upon by the Republican, then





Missouri, and by the Westliche Post, of which,
as you are aware, Mr.. Schurz was at that
time proprietor. But it happened that
BILL GRosvENoB,


who has long been sort Of trainer for
Schurzs political trick-mule, was Temporal
rily editing the moribund st. Louis Democrat,
and he had an independent programme OF
his own, which involved Schurz as q leading
performer Bill was terribly set back when
he found that Schurz had promulgated his
prOn,t,.cian,ento through the Republican,.
What Bill wanted was to so engineer the
State ticket as to gather the gubernatorial
patronage of the city of st. Louis into his own
hands for his share, and he knew very we'll
that il the steady-going and highly respecta-
BILE old Republican kept the movement in it's
leading strings there would be no show for
him. So he Immediately set about cut
ting Schurz loose from the Republican
and all it's influences. He knew just
what chord of Schurzs nature to strike He
appealed to his cowardice; told him the atti-
tude in which my letter had placed him was
too defiant; that it would never do, and that
he must disavow the letter of the article but
retain so much of the spirit Of it as would be
necessary to suit their purposes. Schurz did
as GrosvenOr bid him-went back on himself
and upon as unselfish an act Of kindness and
good faith as ever one man did for another
wriggled, twisted lied and sneaked, and
finally went and did in the campaign just ex,
actly what said he would do-except that he
accepted Bill Grosvenors services as ring
master, which had not been included in the
r,aH F1.1l l,,r Tse
act therefore amounted to this: He induced
correspondent TO do him a favor in good
faith and then, frightened by the representa-
tions of scoundrel who had designs oil his
own in the premises he tried to turn the
favor back upon its dOer in the shape OF Q
curse. And this he did at the instance Of q
leper who was cashiered from the army fol
an ofense too vile to be named in these col.
umns, and who had subsequently allowed his
wife to be saved from the Potter's field by the
charity of friends after she had died of his
own neglect and brutality. Such was and Ia
to this day Carl Schurzs most in
innate friend and most trusted adviser
And such a man Schurz would have
had next to himself in the Interior Depart
ment had he not known that had the record
!, Vi COul B-lubI Llbi III lily poChSt, WOuit
cause them to be laid before the Senate along
with Grosvenors name If he should be nomi.
mated IS assistant secretary.


need not allude to


HIS LATER AND MORE NOTORIOUS EXPLOIT
as liar and his superiority as reform
humbug is 50 plain that even mention of i
would be superfluous. L hope my friend, the
editor of the DEMOCRAT, will 50 far ament
his recent article upon John Sherman as to
accord to Carl Schurz the proper amount O
credit for his lesser, perhaps, but by NJ
means cleaner, share in the debauchery ol
: poor Mr.. Hayes, and the destruction of hi!
administration. A. G. b.