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 attention of all Europe, and that in Germany will probably never be forgotten. Passing the failure of the revolution and the flight of and to England, the speaker referred to the time, twelve years afterward, when, before the proclamation of a general amnesty, official notice was given by the German Government that the United States Minister to Spain, Mr., would pass through the country, and that he was not to be molested. He referred also to the later visit of Mr. to Germany, after his service in the American Cabinet, and to his reception then by Prince and the Emperor.

Dr. Jacobi concluded with a tribute to those qualities in Mr. Schurz, first revealed in his youthful experience in Germany, to which his honorable success in America is to be attributed.

Professor told of Mr. appearance, three years after his coming to America, as a leader in another movement for civic liberty and human rights. Quickly imbibing the spirit of the anti-slavery cause, he had enlisted in it his most earnest efforts, and in 1886 delivered some of the most effective speeches that were made for. In the campaign for he had taken a still more prominent part. He was already the constructive statesman, seeing clearly that there could be no heroic up-building of the Union without a war against slavery, and contending that the black man must have his rights in order to permit the white man