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Charles Sumner An Essay by Carl Schurz
Author: Carl Schurz

Text extracted from opening pages of book: AN ESSAY BY CARL SCHURZ Edited by Arthur Reed Hogue The University of Illinois Press, 1951 U RB AN A COPYRIGHT 1951 by the University of Illinois Press and printed in the United States of America by The Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., in Scranton, Pennsylvania Charles Sumner Introduction CARL SCHURZ, the author... more » o this essay, possessed unique qualifications for writing a biographical study of his contemporary, Charles Sumner. Schurz could draw upon first-hand knowledge of many of the events and excite ments in which Sumner achieved prominence, and Schurz understood thoroughly Sumner 's thought and feeling. Both men worked for the same causes, both men invoked the same principles when dealing with the tragic issues and aftermath of the Civil War in the United States. Yet behind these similarities were some differences in origin and background which undoubtedly gave Schurz the advantage of a critical perspective, for he entered American politics after receiving a German university education. In addition to his personal knowl edge, and perspective, Schurz could bring into play a literary talent which enabled him to deal skillfully with his materials. Schurz was born in 1829 in Liblar, a village in Rhenish Prussia. He attended the University of Bonn; li ^ HjJruaiJlp 6612460 2 CHARLES SUMNER :^ rz Essay by Carl Schurz joined, as a liberal, in the revolutionary activities of 1848; and spent some years in exile, living in France, Switzerland, and England, before coming to the United States in 1852. After several months of indecision about occupation and residence, he made his home in Water town, Wisconsin. There, as a Republican, he took part in the political campaign of 1856. His campaign speeches four years later brought him into national prominence in the course of his extraordinary exertions to secure votes for Abraham Lincoln in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi ana, Illinois, Missouri, and Wisconsin. From this time until Sumner 's death in 1874 the two men, Schurz and Sumner, agreed upon fundamental policies and principles. Schurz, like Sumner, pressed Lincoln toward a policy of emancipation. He urged it from Spain, following his appointment as Minister in 1861; he urged it from camp, after his appointment as brigadier general in the Union army in 1862. When the war ended, Schurz, like Sumner, opposed President Johnson and felt the necessity of Congressional recon struction to secure for the Negro the equality of rights which abolitionists had long advocated. Sumner en couraged Schurz to accept President Johnson's assign ment of a tour of inspection through the South in 1865. The result was a famous report on postwar conditions which strengthened the Congressional rather than the Presidential plans for reconstruction. In 1869, representing Missouri, Schurz had oppor tunities to work even more closely with Sumner in the United States Senate where Schurz agreed with Sumner on the need for civil service reform; he opposed, as Sumner did, the corruption of President Grant's ad CHARLES SUMNER: Introduction 3 ministration; and he attempted, like Simmer, to defeat Grant's re-election in 1872. When Sumner died, in 1874, the people of Boston recognized the close association of the careers of Schurz and Sumner by inviting Schurz to deliver the eulogy at memorial services for their representative. It is now possible to prove that twenty years after the eulogy Schurz addressed himself to the project of a biography of Sumner. By 1894 he had demonstrated his ability as a biographer: first, with a two-volume life of Henry Clay for the American Statesmen Series, and second, with a masterful article on Abraham Lincoln, published in the Atlantic Monthly, June, 1891. In the latter he reviewed, ostensibly, the ten volumes of John G. Nicolay and John Hay. Actually, after brief men tion of their Abraham Lincoln, A History, Schurz launched into a biography of his own, soon to be pub lished by Houghton Mifflin Company in the f

ISBN-13: 9780837152332
ISBN-10: 083715233X
Pages: 152
Edition: New edition
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Publisher: Greenwood Press,London
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