Year: 1872

The following extract, which we took


from an editorial in the St. Louis Demo
crat. polishes eff tho great humburg
| Carl Schurz clear down to a point, where
pity comes to his rescue. The Democrat
shows him up to be the greatest failure
of the war, in the way of a General, and
the most successful carpet bagger of the
age. The extract is taken from sea
thing review of the noble carpet Dagger S
late speech In st. Louis:


1t would scarcely be profitable, either
to writer or reader, to follow Mr.. Schurz
through his labyrinth of offalsehoods, since
there is not one of them that has the poor
merit of being unrefuted. Carpet bag
governments. San Domingo, nepotism,
personal corruptlon-these are the char
ges distributed In carefully adjusted sen-
tene.s--i1coughout the ef.tiro spccc,I.
The 4.eps 15lican party does not justify
the abuses of the so-called carpet bag gov
ernments of the South. 1t has done its
b. st to correct them, but many OF them
we're lnseperable from the condition of
affairs In the Southern States at the close
of the war. Time AMI universal amnesty
will remedy them, but no amount OF ma
tional legislation will reach them for good.
And 1t may not have occurred TO Mr.. Schurz
that the worst carpet Dagger IN Congress
are better than he, since none OF them
have yet been bold en- ,ugh to add person,
al and political pcridy to the original
sin of carpet baggery. He came here
unasked and unsent FIR, took advantage
Of temporary prejudice against a wor-
thy man, and worked himself into his
present high position by pledges and
promises, the making and breaking of
which have since put the brand of dis
honor ineffaceably upon him. 1t does
not lie in the mouth Of this wandering
minstrel of politics-whose sounterings
include most Of the States and all of the
parties Of this Union-to say aught
against carpet baggers. He is the mob
lest carpet bagger of them all-if effron-
terry the nobility, and if a well-studled
hypocrisy be any title to preferment.
The history of carpet-baggery III this
country would be incomplete without
picture Of MIR. Schurz coming here on
tour OF observation, with a paper collar
In his bat and a free pass in his pocket,
an applicant for situation as Senator
from State whose people he did not
know and Of whose geography he is still
ignorant.


We pass over most Of the accusations
of this speech because they have alrca-
dy been answered, and we are not willing
that the campaign shall be conducted on
the defensive by the friends of General
Grant, to accommodate the purposes Of
the unsrcupulous mongrels who consti-
tute his opponents, We print the speech
in full. with great cheerfulness, that our
friends may see the best and the worst of
the opposing side. Il will not wrong
the President says Mr.. Schurz." He
is by no means a monster of iaiquity.
Well, we are not to be outdone in gener-
osity by the Missouri Senator. We will
not wrong Mr.. Schurz. He is by no
means an unmitigated rascal. He is SIM
ply man with personal grievance, an
xious to carry it as far as possible, and
willing to avenge it at any expense to
country or party. This fact is being
pretty we'll understood now, and Mr..
Schurz's power for evil is being subjected
to great reduction In consequence.