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See also:SCHURZ, CARL (1829–1906) , See also:German See also:American statesman and reformer, was See also:born in Liblar, near See also:Cologne, on the 2nd of See also:March 1829, the son of a school-teacher. He studied in the Jesuit Gymnasium of Cologne in 1840-1846, and then entered the University of See also:Bonn, where he became a revolutionary, partly through his friendship with Gottfried See also:Kinkel, See also:professor of literature and See also:art-See also:history. He assisted Kinkel in editing the See also:Bonner Zeitung, and on the outbreak of the Revolution of 1848 took the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, but when See also:Rastatt surrendered he escaped to See also:Zurich. In r85o he returned secretly to See also:Germany, rescued Kinkel from the See also:prison at See also:Spandau and helped him to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape to See also:Scotland. Schurz went to See also:Paris, but the See also:police forced him to leave See also:France on the See also:eve of the coup d'etat, and until See also:August 1852 he lived in See also:London, making his living by teaching German. He married in See also:July 1852 and removed to See also:America, living for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:Philadelphia.
In 1856 after a See also:year in See also:Europe he settled in See also:Watertown, See also:Wisconsin, and immediately became prominent in the Republican party of that See also:state. In 1857 he was an unsuccessful See also:candidate for lieu'enant-See also:governor on the Republican See also:ticket. In the See also:Illinois See also:campaign of the next year between See also:Abraham See also:Lincoln and See also:Stephen A. See also:Douglas he took See also:part as a See also:speaker; and later in 1858 he was admitted to the Wisconsin See also:bar and began to practise See also:law in See also:Milwaukee. In the state campaign of 1859 he made a speech attacking the Fugitive Slave Law and arguing for state's rights and thus injured his See also:political See also:standing in Wisconsin; and in See also:April he delivered in Faneuil See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, See also:Boston, an oration on " True Americanism," which coming from an See also:alien was intended to clear the Republican party of the See also:charge of " nativism." The Germans of Wisconsin unsuccessfully urged his nomination for governor by the Republican party in 1859. In the Republican See also:National See also:Convention of 186o Schurz was chairman of the delegation from
Wisconsin, which voted for W. H. See also:Seward; he was on the See also:committee which See also:drew up the See also:platform and served on the committee which announced his nomination to Abraham Lincoln. In spite of Secretary Seward's objection, grounded on Schurz's See also:European See also:record as a revolutionary, Lincoln sent him in 1861 as See also:minister to See also:Spain. He returned to America in See also:January 1862, resigned his See also:post, was commissioned brigadier-See also:general of See also:volunteers in April, and in See also:June took command of a See also:division under See also:Fremont, and then in See also:Sigel's See also:corps, with which he took part in the second See also:battle of See also:Bull Run. He was promoted See also:major-general of volunteers on the 14th of March and was a division See also:commander at See also:Chancellorsville of the See also:Eleventh Corps, under General O. O. See also:Howard, with whom he later had a See also:bitter controversy over this battle. He was at See also:Gettysburg and at See also:Chattanooga. After the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps were See also:united as the Twentieth he was put in command of a Corps of Instruction at See also:Nashville, and saw no more active service except in the last months of the See also:war when he was with See also:Sherman's See also:army in See also:North Carolina. He resigned from the army immediately after the See also:close of hostilities. In the summer of 1865 See also:President See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson sent him through the See also:South to study conditions; the President quarrelled with Schurz because the latter approved General H. W. See also:Slocum's See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order forbidding the organization of See also:militia in See also:Mississippi, and Schurz's valuable See also:report (afterwards published as an executive document), suggesting the readmission of the states with See also:complete rights and the investigation of the need of further legislation by a Congressional committee, was not heeded by the President. In 1866–1867 he was See also:chief editor of the See also:Detroit Post and then became editor and See also:joint proprietor with Emil See also:Praetorius (1827–1905) of the Westliche Post of St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis. In the See also:winter of 1867–1868 he travelled in Germany—the See also:account of his interview with See also:Bismarck is one of the most interesting chapters of his Reminiscences. He spoke against " repudiation " and for "honest See also:money " during the Presidential campaign of 1868.
In 1869–1875 he was United States senator from See also:Missouri, and made a See also:great reputation (especially in 1873–1874) by his speeches on See also:financial subjects. During this See also:period he See also:broke with the See also:administration: he started the Liberal Republican See also:movement in Missouri in 1870 which elected B. Gratz See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown governor; and in 1872 he presided over the Liberal Republican convention which nominated See also:Horace See also:Greeley for the See also:presidency (Schurz's own choice was See also:Charles See also:Francis See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams or Lyman See also:Trumbull) and which did not in its platform represent Schurz's views on the See also:tariff, or Greeley's. He opposed See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant's Santo Domingo policy—after See also:Fessenden's See also:death Schurz was a member of the Committee on See also:Foreign Affairs, his See also:Southern policy, and the See also:government's selling arms and making cartridges for the See also:French army in the Franco-Prussian War. But in 1875 he campaigned for See also:Hayes, as the representative of See also:sound money, in the See also:Ohio gubernatorial campaign. In x876 he supported Hayes in the contest for the presidency, and Hayes made him in 1877 his secretary of the interior, and followed much of his See also:advice in other See also:cabinet appointments and in his inaugural address. In this See also:department Schurz put in force his theories in regard to merit in the See also:Civil Service, permitting no removals except for cause, and requiring competitive See also:examinations for candidates for clerkships; he reformed the See also:Indian See also:Bureau and successfully opposed a See also:bill transferring it to theWar Department; and he prosecuted See also:land thieves and attracted public See also:attention to the See also:necessity of See also:forest preservation. Upon his retirement in 1881 he removed to New See also:York See also:City, and from the summer of 1881 to the autumn of 1883 was editor-in-chief and one of the proprietors of the New York Evening Post. In 1884 he was a See also:leader in the See also:Independent (or See also:Mugwump) movement against the nomination of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James G. See also:Blaine for the presidency and for the See also:election of Grover See also:Cleveland. From 1888 to 1892 he was general American representative of the See also:Hamburg American Steamship See also:Company. In 1892 he succeeded See also:George See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Curtis as president of the National Civil Service Reform See also:League and held this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office until 1901. He succeeded Curtis as editorial writer for Harper's Weekly in 1892–1898, in which he did much for civil service reform and for Cleveland's nomination and election
in 1892. In 1895 he poke for the See also:Fusion See also:anti-Tammany ticket in New York City. He opposed W. J. See also:Bryan for the presidency in 1896, speaking for sound money and not under the auspices of the Republican party; in 1900 on the anti-imperialism issue he supported Bryan; and in 1904 he supported A. B. See also:Parker, the Democratic candidate. He died in New York City on the 14th of May 1906.
Schurz published a See also:volume of Speeches (1885); See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Clay (1887) in the " American Statesmen " See also:series, a See also:standard See also:biography; Abraham Lincoln (1889), a remarkable See also:essay; and Reminiscences (New York, 3 vols., 1907–1908), in the third volume of which is a See also:sketch of his See also:life and public services from 1869 to 1906 by See also:Frederic See also:Bancroft and William A. Dunning. During the last twenty years of his life Schurz was perhaps the most prominent Independent in American politics, and even more notable than his great abilities was his devotion to his high principles. He was the first German-born American to enter the United States See also:Senate, and was an able debater; and his command of the See also:English See also:language, written and spoken, was remarkable. A sense of See also:humour added much to his campaign speeches.
End of Article: SCHURZ, CARL (1829–1906)
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