Harper's Weekly Editorials on Carl Schurz/Senator Schurz 3
SENATOR SCHURZ.
The comprehensive and glowing discourse
of Senator Schurz upon
Charles Sumner,
delivered upon the invitation of the city of
Boston, was a noble tribute nobly paid. It
records with the eloquence of affection the
verdict which history will ratify; and while
it is only just to Mr. Sumner, it gives Mr.
Schurz a new claim to the admiration and
confidence of the country. Some rumor has
crept into the papers of his retiring from the
Senate and resuming his old editorial career.
But if any man has justified his election to
his high office, it is Carl Schurz, and
Missouri should as certainly return him as
Massachusetts would have returned Charles
Sumner. Mr. Schurz is precisely the kind
of man that the country needs in public life.
He has the unbending integrity, the familiarity
with great principles and confidence
in them, the ample knowledge, the legislative
experience, the self-relying heroism and
independence, the electric eloquence, which
the times demand. His disappearance from
the Senate would be a national loss.
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