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Carl
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American
Carl Schurz,
one of the most celebrated German Americans, was born on March 2, 1829, in
Liblar near Cologne, and died on May 14,1906, in New York. In 1929, on the
100th anniversary of his birth, Germany's Foreign Minister Gustav 
Stresemann characterized him in
the following way:
"Carl Schutz managed to combine his love for Germany with a
loyalty to his American homeland in a marvelous unity reflecting the striving
of his great personality which, here as well as there, was concerned with
profound moral goals that are not restricted to a single nation, but apply to
all mankind."
While
a student in Bonn, Schurz joined what would become the German revolutionary
movement of 1848. He participated in the rebellions in the Rhineland, the
Palatinate and in Baden. After the defeat at Rastatt,
Schurz escaped via Strasbourg to Switzerland, and later to Paris and London.
From there he shipped out in the fall of 1852 to New York, along with his wife,
settling in 1855 as a farmer in Watertown, Wisconsin, where he gained
admittance to the bar to practice law.
He
became a dedicated supporter of the still young Republican Party and campaigned
for Lincoln in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and
Wisconsin. After the election, President Lincoln appointed him U.S. envoy to
Spain. The first defeats of the Union Army in the Civil War occasioned his
return to play an active part as Union general in the war against the
Confederacy and the struggle for the emancipation of the slaves.
After the
devastating war had ended, leaving 600,000 dead, Schurz returned to civilian
life, working as Washington correspondent for the New York Tribune, then as
editor-in-chief of the Detroit Post and after l867 as co-editor and part owner
of the German-language Westliche Post in St. Louis,
Missouri. In 1869, he was elected U.S. senator by his new home state. Thus at
the age of forty, only sixteen years after arriving in America as a homeless
fugitive, Carl Schurz became a member of his adopted country's highest
legislative body, an institution often more powerful than the president in
those days.
As secretary
of the interior under President Rutherford B. Hayes from 1877 to 1881, Schurz
had the opportunity to begin his long championed civil service reform and make
improvements in the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
He then moved to New York City, where he helped found the New York
Evening Post. From 1892 to 1898 Schurz wrote the editorials for Harper's
Weekly. He became nationally famous as a political writer and reformer,
especially in the field of civil service administration.
During extensive lecture tours and new journalistic endeavors after his
service in the Cabinet Schurz continued
He died in New York on
Some of his quotes:
"Our ideals resemble the stars, which illuminate the night.
No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who,
like the sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach
their goal."
"My Country! When right keep it
right; when wrong, set it right!"
Senator
Carl Schurz addressing rally in Cincinnati
Image
from an 1872 issue of German magazine "Über Land
und Meer"
Carl Schurz was born in 1829, near Cologne, in Liblar,
Germany, to parents who were the local school master and daughter of the
"tenant in chief" to the Wolf Mettemich
feudatories. He was born under feudalism, living in a "chateau" or
castle, surrounded by a moat.
His school master father had a library full of Schiller, Goethe, and
Shakespeare, and told him that "George Washington was the greatest man who
ever lived." His father read Schiller's poems to him, as well as G. E.
Lessing's Nathan the Wise. The boy became an expert pianist, who later
performed for Lincoln, Hayes, and others Presidents.
Thus,
Schurz was still a "teenager" when the 1848 revolutions broke out,
and he followed his teacher, Gottfried Kinkel, into
"battle", or such that the aborted "revolution" could be
characterized, even though it was more a disjointed protest against the relic
of feudalism which still ruled Germany, but was crumbling everywhere.
Schurz gained fame in revolutionary circles when he rescued his teacher/
leader from prison, and led him into exile into London by 1851. There he met
with all the other revolutionaries, including Mazzini, and even led a German
delegation welcoming the Hungarian Kossuth into his British (later Italian)
exile.
Soon, however, he followed the other "48ers" to America,
migrating to Watertown, Wisconsin because of relatives having settled there.
While most Germans had gravitated towards the Democratic Party, and about 1
million Germans left for America in the 1850's, the '48ers started a new trend
to support the Whig Party, and later the Republican party, because of its more
anti slavery stance.
Schurz led
this trend in Wisconsin, and fast became a leading orator of the new formed
Republican Party, traveling to Illinois in 1858 to see the famous
Lincoln-Douglas debates. Lincoln was already subsidizing a local German paper
there, realizing the importance of weaning the German-Americans away from the
Democratic Party. Schurz became dedicated to Lincoln for the rest of his short
life.
Meanwhile,
Schurz and his wife created a cultural storm in the prairie wilderness of
Wisconsin, performed operas, holding concerts, and even forming a new movement
started by Frederic Froebel in Germany, as they created a "kindergarten"
in Watertown, Wisconsin. However, Schurz also had a lifelong romantic fling
with Wagnerian operas and music, which showed the destructive force of this
cultural rebellion in European Enlightenment.
Schurz
became the major German American orator for Lincoln's 1860 election campaign,
and swung enough German voters into the Republican Party to win that election.
Lincoln was very grateful, and showed his respect by showing Schurz his
Inaugural Address before he left Springfield for Washington in late 1860. After
the inauguration, Lincoln appointed Schurz to Ambassador of Spain; he only
served there a short time, but quickly told Lincoln that he could win over
Europe with an Emancipation Proclamation, which would make the main issue of
the war the abolition of slavery.
Lincoln did
issue this proclamation after the "victory" at Antietam, actually a
draw, but it repelled Lee from the North until Gettysburg. Lincoln did this
before Congressional elections of 1862, which cost him some Republican seats in
Congress, but won him enough European support to counteract British aid for the
Confederacy.
Shortly,
thereafter, Schurz returned to fight as a Brigadier General to lead the huge
number of German Troops in the Army of the Potomac. He was attached to General
Fremont's corps, whose staff officers were colorfully garbed Hungarian 1848ers!
He maintained an impetuous correspondence with President Lincoln, who respected
him enough to answer his tactless questions about military strategy, including
several White House visits.
Soon the
German corps were caught up the battle of Gettysburg, where one artillery unit
near Culp's Hill held off desperate Confederate flanking attacks: one Southern
officer reached the guns and declared, "This Battery is ours!" while
a German trooper speared him with a shaft, and yelled, "Nein, dis battery ist unser!"
German
artillery units then mowed down Pickett's last charge with devastating fire,
while the Yankee lines broke out with victorious sounds of "John Brown's
Body" to the retreating confederates.
In 1864,
Schurz again rallied the German American vote for Lincoln. However, Lincoln's
death left him and many Americans without sound leadership, and he was soon
embroiled in the bitter impeachment of President Johnson. He toured the South
to document trampled civil rights and reconstruction, and his Congressional
Testimony was reprinted in 100,000 copies.
In 1868,
Schurz traveled back to Germany as an American Icon, and Bismarck greeted him
with a private hour and half interview, followed by more conversation at
dinner. When some North German jurists and Privy Counselors attended the dinner,
they did not recognize Schurz, until Bismarck introduced him to his former
enemies, much to their discomfort.
Schurz asked
Bismarck why he did not attack France right after he routed the Austrians in
1866, and Bismarck told him that he had not consolidated South German support
yet, and to defeat France then would require raising of Hungarian troops, which
was anathema to the Austrian Hapsburgs! However, this shows confirmation that
the Hungarians were working closely with Bismarck against Austria, which
resulted in the 1867 compromise by Austria allowing home rule by the Hungarians
who had rebelled in 1848, and defeated Austria on the battlefield until Russia
intervened.
Meanwhile,
back in the United States, the Grant Administration had poured millions of
dollars into northern internal improvements, while the Democratic Party vetoed
all monies to the occupied South, which remained prostrate while the Northern
industrial revolution boomed. This untenable situation was exploited by various
"scandals" such as Credit Mobilier in order
to split the Republican party asunder. This resulted
in the great "compromise of 1877", after the Tilden/Hayes election,
which seated Hayes in the disputed White House in return for withdrawing all
Federal troops from the south, thus ending "reconstruction."
Schurz
returned to America to become a St. Louis German paper editor, and then a
Senator from Missouri, where he vigorously opposed New York (GOP) Senator
Roscoe Conkling (Wall Street Agent) in hearings on arms sales during the Franco
Prussian war. However, while Senator he also broke completely with the Grant
Administration, and James Blaine, in particular.
Subsequently,
Schurz was in and out of the GOP, leaving in 1872 to support Greeley on the
Third Party ticket, returning to elect Hayes in 1876, and become Secretary of
the Interior, thence supporting Garfield in 1880, but slipping away again when
Arthur replaced the assassinated Garfield, and appointed Conkling to the
Supreme Court.
Thereafter,
he left elected and appointed office for good, reestablishing himself as a
journalist with Henry Villard's Nation. He became a leader of national
civil service reform, which was a catch all of Wall Street agents and
anti-silver populists. He disliked Blaine so much he supported Grover Cleveland
in 1884, although the defection of New York's Conkling, who hated Blaine with a Wall Street venom, may have done more damage to Blaine,
than Schurz did with the German American voters.
However,
Schurz did come back to his senses when he saw various oligarchical
currents revive anti-Semitism in Europe and anti-black racism in America in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries, submerged under the cover of renewed
"imperialism". On this issue he broke with Theodore Roosevelt
completely, and organized an Anti-Imperialism League in America in the last
years of his life, which ended in 1906.
Interestingly,
a fact missed by Schurz's latest biographer, Hans Trefousse,
a Brooklyn College Professor, is that Governor Robert LaFollette
of Wisconsin, who was the national leader of the Lincoln Insurgents in the GOP
at the turn of the Century, feted Carl Schurz in Wisconsin in June, 1905 by
endowing a Carl Schurz Professorship at the University of Wisconsin.
Schurz
addressed LaFollette in Madison, Wisconsin by saying:
"I am so happy to know that what I have been striving for all my life has been taken up by a younger man. Go on with the good work, Governor, do not lose courage, and may God bless you. "
Authored and contributed by:
Glenn Mesaros
Minneapolis,
MN
gmeszaros@email.msn.com
[ Address added with permission of the author ]
1857
The “Volks Zeitung and People’s Gazette,” a German
paper, was started through the
instrumentality of Carl Schurz, most three years since, and is now
published under the editorial management of Herman Lindeman.
1858
01 21 Lecture
before the Young Men’s Association
09 16 Appointed Regent of the University of WI
12
02 Special Election to fill vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of Ald. Schurz
WD
1859
01 12 Beaver
Dam Democrat gives currency to
charges against Carl Schurz WTranscript
05 05 Schurz is as prolific as Queen Victoria,
although their tastes are somewhat different
WG
1860
09 28 Extracts
from speech of Carl Schurz, New
York, Sept 13, 1860
I think it was Sen.
Pugh who once said that that if Douglas were struck
down by the South, he would take his bleeding corpse and show it to the youth
of the Northwest, as an example of southern gratitude. Let that modern Mark Anthony come on with his
dead Caesar (pardon me, it is neither Caesar dead nor Mark Anthony alive)
(applause and cheers); let him bring his bleeding corpse and I will suggest the
funeral oration. Let him say to the
youth of the American Republic:
"This is Douglas. Look at
him. For every wound the South has
inflicted on him, he has struck a blow at the liberties of his countrymen. Let him serve as a warning example that a man
may be a traitor to liberty, and yet not become a favorite of the slave
power. Mark him. By false Popular Sovereignty he tried to
elevate himself, and true Popular Sovereignty strikes him down." (Loud
applause)
If the youth of America
profits by this lesson, then it may be said that even Douglas has done some
service to his country. (Laughter) Then
peace be to him—his mission is fulfilled.
But now we have to
fulfill ours. False Popular Sovereignty
is down. Freemen, it is for you to see
to it, that true Popular Sovereignty triumphs (applause).
Citizens of New York,
when, after the adjournment of the convention which nominated that great and
good man, Abraham Lincoln, for the presidency, I addressed the people of my
state again for the first time, I said to them:
" Let Wisconsin stretch her hand across
the Great Lakes and grasp the hand of New York. WR
1861
03 21 CARL
SCHURZ New York Times
We are glad
to see confident statements in intelligent quarters, that
the President intends to offer Carl Schurz some high and honorable office in
recognition of his talents and political services. We opposed his appointment to Sardinia, or to
any of the leading diplomatic posts in Central Europe, not from any disposition
to underrate his abilities, but because we consider the circumstances of his
past career likely to destroy his usefulness there, and needlessly to embarrass
our relations with those countries. Our
Government undoubtedly had the right to send him as our Representative to the
Government which had exiled him—but no one, we presume, would deem it a wise or
a friendly act. And our objections to
sending him to Sardinia were similar in kind, though less in degree. But Mr. Schurz is a gentleman of great
ability, an earnest Republican, and abundantly worthy of recognition and
promotion at the hands of the Administration.
He rendered effective service to the Republican Party during the
canvass, and has a right to look for the reward which such services usually
command. The objection which has been
raised, in unfriendly quarters, that he was paid for his campaign speeches, is
entitled to no weight—as that was a matter exclusively between himself and
those who engaged his services. We
trust, therefore, that the President will confer upon him some position which
will indicate a satisfactory recognition of his political labors. WD reprint of NYTimes article
06 13 Gone to Europe
The steamship New York and Edinburgh sailed
for Europe on the 8th inst. Among the
passengers were Carl Schurz and family, the United States Minister to
Spain. There is a report from Washington
intimating that he will not be received at the court of Madrid as
representative of our government and the Spanish Minister have said. While we do not question Mr. Schurz’s
talents, his appointment, under the circumstances, was decidedly improper and
made by the President contrary to the advice of the Secretary of State. WD
CARL
SCHURZ DIES AT AGE 76
1906
05 15 1906
Carl
Schurz who was widely known as an orator and writer passed away at his home in
the city of New York at an early hour yesterday morning in the 76th year of his
age, having been born in Cologne, Germany,
CARL SCHURZ TO BE HONORED
Watertown Daily Times, 02
10 2001
Carl
Schurz, general in the Union Army in the Civil War and one of Watertown's most
famous residents, is scheduled to be inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation
Hall of Fame in Stevens Point this spring.
We
learned of this honor for a great American statesman in a call from a strong
friendship we made in our years in the newspaper industry. Bill Berry, former
editor of the Stevens Point Journal, called us with the information. Bill is a
friend whom we had not heard from since he left his newspaper career to pursue
a little slower pace of life as a freelance writer and also as head of public
relations for this conservation group.
Bill
said he thought we would be interested in knowing Carl Schurz was scheduled for
this great honor. The induction will take place on Saturday, April 7, in a
program from
Carl
Schurz is known in Watertown for his great oratorical skills, his political
leadership and also for his famous wife, Margarethe
Meyer Schurz, who established the first kindergarten in the United States. It
was founded right here in Watertown at the southwest corner of North Second and
Jones streets. That's now a municipal parking lot, but there is a stone
monument marking that as the location of the first kindergarten.
Many
years ago the actual first kindergarten building was moved from its original
location to the Octagon House grounds where it can be toured.
We
didn't realize the strong role Carl Schurz played in conservation efforts for
the United States back in the 1800s and up to the turn of the century. Here's a
little background on this famous man. It was included in the information Bill
sent to us this week.
Carl
Schurz was born in Liblar, Germany on
He
settled in Watertown in 1854 and remained one of Watertown's famous citizens
until 1860 when he was appointed envoy to Spain.
It was
during his years in Watertown that he became deeply involved in politics. He
ran unsuccessfully for the position of lieutenant governor of the state in
1857. He was elected chairman of the Wisconsin delegation to the Republican
National Convention in Chicago in 1860. He campaigned for the re-election of
President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and was a United States senator from Missouri
from 1869 to 1875.
From
1877 to 1881 he served as secretary of the Department of the Interior under
presidencies of Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield. In his tenure at
that position he opposed the spoils system, advocated enlightened treatment of
Indians, made Civil Service reforms, prosecuted forest/land thievery and had
vast impact on conservation efforts nationally.
He was
a great influence on the American Forestry Association and other foresters and
he played a key role in the adoption of the 1891 Forest Reservation
Act.
Carl
Schurz wrote extensively throughout his life. He was an editor of Harper's
weekly from 1892 to 1898, also edited the New York Evening Post and The Nation,
published a history of the United States and a
biography of Henry Clay. He also wrote a three-volume book of memoirs titled
"Reminiscences."
He was
a brigadier general and then a major general in the Union Army and served in
the military at the Battle of Gettysburg.
The
Carl Schurz Society in Germany was founded in 1926 and is active to this day. A
Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation was established in Chicago in 1930. A large
statue in Oshkosh proclaims him to be the foremost German-American in the
country's history.
Here's
a little more information about his conservationist views as researched by our
friend Bill Berry:
That
Carl Schurz merits mention in American history is beyond discussion. A German
immigrant, Schurz was a Civil War hero, a reformer and political activist. He
was a writer and author, a brilliant orator and a keeper of company like
Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Rutherford B. Hayes.
Schurz
was a man of many interests and activities. Even when focusing only on his
conservation activities, his importance to the cause is hard to summarize.
For
instance, Schurz is credited with helping to bring about Civil Service reform.
On the surface, this might not seem related to conservation. But the late
Steward L. Udall put the two together in his book, "The Quiet
Crisis." Udall noted that Schurz's first act as Secretary of the Interior
(1877-81), "was to initiate an intensive study of forest depredations, and
his first report, in 1877, singled out lumbermen who were 'not merely stealing
trees, but whole forests.'"
Udall
added that when Schurz set out to regulate these practices, he found trouble
within his own agency. "... he soon discovered
that his fieldmen in the General Land Office, who
were supposed to be looking after the forests, were spoils appointees inclined
to wink at trespass and timber theft."
As
secretary, Schurz acted quickly to remove politics from everyday forest
management. New job candidates and those proposed for promotion were required
to take an examination, noted Schurz biographer Joseph Schafer ("Carl
Schurz, Militant Liberal," 1930). "All applicants, no matter how
politically strong their support might be, found themselves obliged to go
through this testing process and to abide its results," Schafer wrote.
Next
week we'll continue with more of the commentary from Bill Berry on Watertown's
Carl Schurz.
TLS
MORE ON CARL SCHURZ
Watertown Daily Times, 02
17 2001
In last
week's column we told our readers about the high honor Carl Schurz, one of
Watertown's most famous citizens, is scheduled to receive in April. Schurz, a
famous American who was born in Germany in 1829 and died in New York City in
1906, had lived in Watertown in the 1850s and 1860s.
He
became famous as a statesman and was deeply involved in politics. He served in
Cabinet positions under several United States presidents. Lesser known to most
of our readers was his strong interest in the environment. Carl Schurz was
secretary of the interior and a champion of preserving our country's natural
resources.
It was
his devout interest in protecting our country's environment that led the
Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame to select him for induction on April 7 at
the conservation organization's large parcel of forestland outside Stevens
Point. The ceremony will begin at
Our
column of last week included some background on Carl Schurz and also started a
narrative by our friend Bill Berry on Schurz's history and why he was selected
for this honor. Here we are concluding his narrative:
Carl
Schurz's causes were many, but historians give plenty of attention to Schurz's
keen interest in conservation and land use. In his day, the duties of Interior
Secretary were many, but "his heart was clearly in the two subjects of
forestry and Indian affairs," wrote Schafer.
Schurz
battled against views still prevalent at that time that saw "forests as an
obstacle to civilization, fit only to be slaughtered and burned."
Appreciation of forests for conserving soils and governing stream flowage was
still absent in America of the 1870s, noted Schafer. The belief that timber
resources were inexhaustible still prevailed.
"Schurz,
by reason of his knowledge of world conditions, realized the tragic
shortsightedness of such views and made it one of his special duties, as the
officer charged with the oversight of the forests on public lands, to educate
congress and the people upon that subject," wrote Schafer.
Schurz
sought to end timber thievery, the taking by private operators of government
timber. An unsympathetic Congress instead passed a law that all but legalized
the practice in some states.
As
secretary, Schurz succeeded in passing a measure to penalize those who set
fires on forestlands. He exempted timber areas from homestead or pre-emption
claims and regulated the sale of government wood to miners and settlers, who he
said had been "denuding the national domain whenever and wherever they saw
fit to do so."
Schurz,
like other early conservation figures, was ahead of his time. Historian Henry Clepper wrote "Crusade for Conservation, The
Centennial History of the American Forestry Association." In that history,
he referred to Schurz as "the first authentic conservationist to hold
cabinet rank."
He
would also be called "The Father of the Forest Reserves" for his
efforts to rescue and reinvigorate America's forests. It was Schurz's job to
educate, so that others would later act. As secretary, Schurz called for
establishment of a system of federal forest reserves, initiation of
reforestation practices, charges to the users of natural resources, stiff fines
for willful setting of forest fires and empowerment of the president to appoint
a commission "to study the terribly instructive laws and practices of
other countries." He also called for a campaign of public education on the
conservation of forests, trees and soil.
Most
of his agenda was squashed or ignored. "Deaf was Congress, and deaf the
people seemed to be," Schurz later wrote. Secretary Schurz also encouraged
the country to adopt land management practices for America's West, based on the
recommendations of Major John Wesley Powell. The Powell Plan was a broad vision
for land use in the West, taking into consideration the need for a reservoir
system for irrigation and many other land use practices employed today.
Congress dallied on his recommendations, but Powell's ideas were to be
vindicated several times in the future. The Reclamation Act was passed in 1902.
The Dust Bowl era of the 1930s finally brought an introduction of many of the
practices recommended by Powell.
In a
letter to Herbert Welsh in 1899, Schurz reflected on his years as secretary:
"What I did with regard to the public forests was simply to arrest
devastation, in which I partially succeeded, and for which I was lustily
denounced, and to strive from year to year to obtain from congress legislation
for the protection of forests, in which I largely failed."
Schurz
continued to lobby the cause after leaving office. He sought to rally support
for a national forest policy with the American Forestry Association, and
momentum built for reform. In 1891, Congress empowered the president to
withdraw forest reserves from the public lands, creating the Forest Reservation Act. Presidents William Harrison, Grover
Cleveland and, especially, Theodore Roosevelt, laid away 132 million acres as
national forests before Congress repealed the Forest Reservation
Act in 1907. This is still the major part of the National Forest System.
It was
Carl Schurz who first called for establishing federal forest reserves. He lived
to see that happen.
Wisconsin
is quick to claim Schurz, even though he lived here for but eight or nine
years. Schurz moved to Watertown from his native Germany in 1852 and stayed in
the state until 1860. He immersed himself in many causes while in the state. He
quickly became part of the anti-slavery movement. He ran unsuccessfully for
lieutenant governor in 1857. He set up a law office in Milwaukee. He campaigned for Abraham Lincoln with both natives and
foreign-born. He was a Wisconsin delegate to the National Republican
Convention in Chicago.
But
for a brief return to the state after serving as a general in the Union Army
during the Civil War, that fairly well sums up the
time Schurz actually spent in Wisconsin.
He
was, of course, the first and only Interior Secretary from Wisconsin, and he
lives on in the state's history books. He and his wife, Margarethe,
are both listed in the standard reference, "Wisconsin Biographies."
His three-volume "Reminiscences," holds a place in the Wisconsin
section of state libraries to this day.
The
Schurz home is a historic attraction in Watertown. Margarethe
Schurz is generally recognized as having established the first American
kindergarten, in Watertown.
Like
many early conservation figures, Schurz's main job would be to educate people
about the need for change. By most accounts, the conservation movement wasn't
born in America until the mid-19th century.
As
noted by historian Henry Clepper, Schurz was the
first conservationist to be appointed to a cabinet position. Schurz, like the
other early conservationists, must by necessity be measured in no small part by
the deeds of those who followed. Such is the lot of people with vision and
foresight beyond the normal scope.
Watertown
residents should be proud that one of this community's famous sons has been
honored for his conservation efforts. We're glad Bill passed this information
on to us. It helped us to learn more about this important figure in American
history.
TLS
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1860
08 30 Popular Sovereignty Doctrine: Extracts from Speech of Carl Schurz WD
11 02 Likeness
of Carl Schurz
We
have had left at our office two lithographs of this distinguished orator and
statesman. The larger of the two, taken in
tint, and the other plain, will at once be recognized by his friends and
acquaintances, but we hope to see a more bold and full
picture, of which he is certainly worthy.
They will be sold at 50 and $.25.
WR
1906 Mr.
Carl Schurz devotes the eighth chapter of his “Reminiscences of a Long Life” in
McClure's to a description of his adventure in Paris after his flight from Kinkel from his own country. And the adventures are surely
exciting. Schurz almost without money, struggling along in a hotel carnet in
the Latin Quarter, trying to keep body and soul together by correspondence with
German socialistic papers, was followed by the spies of Louis Napoleon, just
then planning his coup d'etat which was to make him
Emperor of the French. Mr. Schurz, all unsuspecting that his revolutionary
record would make him of interest to Napoleon, went placidly on his way until
he was arrested and thrown into a cell with a common thief from which he was
taken only to be warned to leave the country immediately. This incident,
exciting as it is, is only a small part of the good things in this installment.
There are charming descriptions of life in the Latin Quarter and of the
writer's encounters with famous artists and poets of the period. Mr. Schurz is
always entertaining, but in this installment he outdoes himself, and one
regrets that it is not twice as long as it is. 06 12
June Harsh criticism upon the 1906 death of
Carl Schurz Mother Earth magazine
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1908
04 02 Contributions being received
for the Carl Schurz memorial fund. Apathy on part of the
people of Watertown.
05 01 Watertown fund raising for Carl Schurz
memorial. Carl Schurz Memorial
Professorship.
09
15 Schurz
home sold to honor judgment. City
urged to buy for memorial and withdraw funding Carl Schurz chair at UW NY Times
1914
07
04 Oshkosh: The Carl Schurz Monument.
1938
03 22 Schurz Memorial proposed for Madison,
instead of on Octagon House grounds in
Watertown
1983
05 08 U.S. stamp honoring Carl Schurz.
Cross-References:
Chapter
on Schurz home and fire
Carl
was a nephew of Catharine
Gaebler, wife of Emil C. Gaebler
Daniel Kusel, Sr. was persuaded to stay in Watertown by his friend, Carl
Schurz
The Weltbuerger, one of the oldest German paper
in Wisconsin, had many able editorial writers, among them being the Hon. Carl
Schurz
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