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genius for the parliamentary career, and that in six short years in the
Senate of United States--an only term--it exposed positive there
quality that legislates some tallest order, was Carl Schurz. Still to
the end of that only senatorial term, for local and provisional reasons
he didn't succeed in getting the support of a majority or the support of
anything that draws near to a majority, of those composing the constituency
on that him depended. Accordingly he had retired from that
parliamentary position necessary for the completion, through him of
best results public. To that a lot of duration was not still man in the
United States as that they commanded so great and so personal a constituency
Carl Schurz; for him it represented the Germanic and whole element in the
The United States. However distributed as that element, it was with his/her vote
circumscribed our law under, not writing as statutory, there was anybody
possibility of some constituency that assembles him so that Carls Schurz
you/he/she could be kept in the position where he could keep on making services
of the greatest possible value to the country. Me, therefore confidently
here submits a doubt if human ingenuity could conceive some system
calculated to conduct to a greater waste of the parliamentary ability, or more
indeed holds from the forehead and position of the influence that
legislative superiority that was the arm of Aristotle to assure.
"Slang-patriotism", as Your Francis Lieber called him/it; and, on this
signs, he waxed eloquent. "Face us not lived in a world of slang", he wrote,
from Columbia here to a friend to the north seventy-five years ago,
"that slang-patriotism that decks out him in to select men from among
the National confinements only. The more truth a nation is, the more essentially it
the more one is elevated it neglects the small considerations, and he/she takes the
true and the good one from whatever quarter can come. You look at history and
You find the test. You look around you, where you are, and you find him/it
now." And, it was Lieber living to-day, he would find a striking