Harper's Weekly Editorials on Carl Schurz/Senator Schurz 3

comprehensive and glowing discourse of Senator upon , 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., it gives Mr. 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, and Missouri should as certainly return him as Massachusetts would have returned. Mr. 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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