Carl Schurz Memorial Services at the Auditorium, Chicago, Sunday, June the Third, 1906C. M. Staiger printing Company, 1906 - 35 Seiten |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abraham Lincoln ADDRESS-Carl Schurz allegiance American citizen believed birth born CARL SCHURZ MEMORIAL Chairman Charles Sumner cherish Chicago Civil Service Reform COMMITTEE conscience corrupt cosmopolitan democracy destiny devotion dreamed duty eloquence English Eugene E Eugene Niederegger F. C. Winkler faith Faneuil Hall fellow-citizens fidelity forget friendship German Emperor German Singing Societies go wrong Godfrey Kinkel Gustav Ehrhorn Harry Rubens heart honesty ican idea idealist Illinois immigrants influence jingoism Julius Stern land leaders learn German love and honor love of freedom Max Eberhardt men of 48 mighty Missouri Compromise moral force movement never noble Northwestern University numbers old fatherland orator party political President prophet Prussing republic Republican Republican party revolution revolution of 1848 righteousness sacred Senate slavery soil speeches stars statesman strength struggle sympathy thought to-day true order Union United German Singing United States Senate University utterances William Vocke words youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 6 - Nothing can cover his high fame, but Heaven ; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness ; To which I leave him.
Seite 34 - I answer, ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the sea-faring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Seite 27 - Won't you learn the lesson, young man; that it is prima facie evidence of littleness to hold public office under our form of government? Think of it. This is a government of the people, and by the people, and for the people...
Seite 34 - IDEALS ARE LIKE STARS. YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED IN TOUCHING THEM WITH YOUR HANDS, BUT LIKE THE SEA-FARING MAN ON THE DESERT OF WATERS. YOU CHOOSE THEM AS YOUR GUIDES AND FOLLOWING THEM, YOU REACH YOUR DESTINY.
Seite 7 - It is one of the earliest recollections of my boyhood, that one summer night our whole village was stirred up by an uncommon occurrence. I say our village, for I was born not far from that beautiful spot where the Rhine rolls his green waters out of the wonderful gate of the Seven Mountains, and then meanders with majestic tranquillity through one of the most glorious valleys of the world. That night our neighbors were pressing around a few wagons covered with linen sheets and loaded with household...
Seite 17 - ... with which, apparently, the good name of this Republic has been soiled. The Senator also intimated yesterday that the German-born American citizens could not entirely forget their old latherland. Possibly not; but I ask him, should they forget it? Does he not know that those who would meanly and coldly forget their eld mother could not be expected to be faithful to their young bride?
Seite 34 - You may tell me," he said at Faneuil Hall, "that my views are visionary, that the destiny of this country is less exalted, that the American people are less great than I think they are or ought to be. I answer, ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands.
Seite 29 - No! In the name of my country, no! For the honor of Massachusetts, no! For the sake of the principles for which my blood is flowing, no! Let them kill me, but let the rights of man be safe!" Sir, if you want to bestow a high praise upon a man, you are apt to say he is an old Roman. But I know a higher epithet of praise; it is — He is a true American!
Seite 24 - 48 who had come into leadership of the great and ever-increasing throng of German-Americans were men not bound down by any of those traditions which held us in chains. They knew nothing of the Missouri Compromise or the Nebraska Bill or any of the numerous devices by which we tried to break the force of the oncoming storm. They were men who had suffered in behalf of liberty; they were men who had staked their entire careers on the side of freedom in the great struggle between privilege and democracy;...
Seite 16 - I certainly am not ashamed of having sprung from that great nation whose monuments stand so proudly upon all the battle-fields of thought; that great nation which, having translated her mighty soul into action, seems at this moment to hold in her hands the destinies of the old world; that great nation which for centuries has sent abroad thousands and thousands of her children upon foreign shores with their intelligence, their industry, and their spirit of good citizenship; while I am by no means...