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The Sunday afternoon before the convention was to meet we, the self-elect, fell in with a party of these in a garden "over the Rhine," as the German quarter of Cincinnati is called. There was first general and rather aimless talk. Then came a great deal of speech making. Schurz started it with a few pungent observations intended to suggest and inspire some common ground of opinion and sentiment.
He had an almost morbid dread of what he called 'a scene' that is, a demonstration of applause, such as always greeted his appearance in public. General Carl Schurz says: "In the White House, as in his simple home in Springfield, Mr. Lincoln was the same plain, unaffected, unpretentious citizen.
Of course, Schurz was one of these. He was the last on the list of speakers and, curiously enough the occasion being the consideration of certain ways and means for the development of the South and many leading Southerners present he composed his speech out of an editorial tour de force he was making in the Evening Post on The Homicidal Side of Southern Life.
To General Schurz, who wrote asking permission to take an active part in the campaign for his reelection, he answered: "I perceive no objection to your making a political speech when you are where one is to be made; but quite surely, speaking in the North and fighting in the South at the same time are not possible, nor could I be justified to detail any officer to the political campaign... and then return him to the army."
But, further: Among those who have wandered to your shores are millions of Germans several millions! For more than two years where shall I begin to relate since the days of Steuben and of Carl Schurz but how can I name names? they have been all received as brothers, bringing their best; and their best was not lost. More I cannot say. Furthermore, what sort was the spirit which received them?
Horace White looked more than ever like an iceberg, Sam Bowles was diplomatic but ineffusive, Schurz was as a death's head at the board; Halstead and I through sheer bravado tried to enliven the feast. But they would none of us, nor it, and we separated early and sadly, reformers hoist by their own petard.
Major General CARL SCHURZ. No. 39. Vicksburg, Mississippi, September 30, 1865. General: I see by the papers of a late date that Dr. Murdoch, of Columbus, Mississippi, has made a speech at General Howard's office, in which he makes strong promises of the hearty co-operation of his fellow-citizens in the education of the freedmen in the State.
In the Charles Eames days Sumner was exceedingly disagreeable to me. Many people, indeed, thought him so. Many years later, in the Greeley campaign of 1872, Schurz brought us together they had become as very brothers in the Senate and I found him the reverse of my boyish ill conceptions. He was a great old man.
"Schurz was right," said Joseph Pulitzer upon the occasion of our yachting cruise just mentioned, "I know, for he and I went directly from the hall with Judge Stallo to his home on Walnut Hills, where we dined and passed the afternoon." The Quadrilateral had been knocked into a cocked hat.
The Sunday afternoon before the convention was to meet we, the self-elect, fell in with a party of these in a garden "over the Rhine," as the German quarter of Cincinnati is called. There was first general and rather aimless talk. Then came a great deal of speech making. Schurz started it with a few pungent observations intended to suggest and inspire some common ground of opinion and sentiment.
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