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Carl Schurz (1829–1906)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, quotes. As a student, he participated in the 1848 uprisings in Germany. His efforts obligated him to emigrate when the revolution failed, and in 1852 he settled in the United States. He was a confidante of Lincoln, U.S. Ambassador to Spain, a major-general in the Civil War, a U.S. Senator from Missouri, Secretary of the Interior in the Hayes administration, author of a biography of Henry Clay, president of the National Civil Service Reform League, and an editorial writer for Harper's Weekly. He gave many speeches and lectures and wrote prolificly. He promoted civil service reform, environmental preservation and arbitration for the settlement of international disputes. He opposed slavery, inflationary monetary strategies and U.S. imperialism. This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "C. S."

Carl Schurz

Works

Speeches

1850s

• Opinions, Madison, Wisconsin, October 16, 1857
• His book, Speeches of Carl Schurz, has a collection of 12 speeches delivered from 1858 to 1864
• State Rights and Byron Paine, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 23, 1859
• State Rights: Reply to Criticism, Kenosha, Wisconsin, March 31, 1859

1860s

• The Logical Results of the War, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1866
• The State of the Country, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1866
• The Road to Peace — a Solid, Durable Peace, Chicago, Illinois, September 19, 1868
• On Being Chosen United States Senator, Jefferson City, Missouri, January 20, 1869

1870s

• U. S. Senate Speeches and Remarks, Washington, D. C., March 1869 - March 1875
• George H. Thomas Eulogy, Troy, New York, April 5, 1870
• The Need of Reform and a New Party, Nashville, Tennessee, September 20, 1871
• The Aims of the Liberal-Republican Movement, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2, 1872
• Why Anti-Grant and Pro-Greeley, St. Louis, Missouri, July 22, 1872
• The Issues of 1874, Especially in Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, September 24, 1874
• Charles Sumner Eulogy, Boston, Massachusetts, April 29, 1874
• Honest Money, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 27, 1875
• Hayes vs. Tilden, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 31, 1876
• The School in Politics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 4, 1877
• The Currency Question, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 28, 1878
• Honest Money and Labor, Boston, Massachusetts, October 23, 1878

1880s

• Hayes in Review and Garfield in Prospect, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 20, 1880
• “Address by the Hon. Carl Schurz” from St. Botolph Club, Visit of the Hon. Carl Schurz to Boston, March 1881.
• “Address by the Hon. Carl Schurz” at the Reception by German Citizens from St. Botolph Club, Visit of the Hon. Carl Schurz to Boston, March 1881.
• A Plea for the Indians, New York, New York, March 15, 1881
• The Old World and the New, New York, New York, November 5, 1881
• Phi Beta Kappa Oration at Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 29, 1882
• Tammany Hall vs. Allan Campbell, New York, New York, October 1882
• Science and International Harmony, New York, New York, November 9, 1882
• Science and International Harmony (longer version), New York, New York, November 9, 1882
• Education of Orphan Children, Brooklyn, New York, June 26, 1883
• Dr. Edouard Lasker, New York, New York, January 10, 1884
• Washington's Birthday, Brooklyn, New York, February 22, 1884
• Why James G. Blaine Should Not Be President, Brooklyn, New York, August 5, 1884
• Technical Instruction vs. Apprenticeship, New York, New York, April 22, 1886
• Kaiser Wilhelm I, New York, New York, March 21, 1888
• The Montefiore Home, New York, New York, December 18, 1888
• Some Present Political Problems, New York, New York, January 12, 1889
• The Need of a Rational Forest Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1889

1890s

• The Tariff Question, Boston, Massachusetts, October 20, 1890
• Tammany Hall vs. the People's Municipal League, New York, New York, October 28, 1890
• General Sherman, New York, New York, February 17, 1891
• Civil Service Reform and Democracy, Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League, New York, New York, April 25, 1893
• German Day, World's Fair, Chicago, Illinois, June 15, 1893
• The Necessity and Progress of Civil Service Reform, Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League, Chicago, Illinois, December 12, 1894
• Congress and the Spoils System, Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League, Washington, D. C., December 12, 1895
• The True Americanism, New York, New York, January 2, 1896
• International Arbitration, Washington, D. C., April 22, 1896
• Honest Money and Honesty, Chicago, Illinois, September 5, 1896
• William Steinway, New York, New York, December 2, 1896
• Encouragements and Warnings, Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 10, 1896
• The German Mothertongue, New York, New York, January 9, 1897
• Civil Service Reform and the “Black Act”, Albany, New York, May 6, 1897
• Mr. Low Will Lead the Friends of Good Government to Victory, New York, New York, October 6, 1897
• The Democracy of the Merit System, Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 16, 1897
• Our Future Foreign Policy, National Conference at Saratoga, New York, August 19, 1898
• A Review of the Year, Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League, Baltimore, Maryland, December 15, 1898
• American Imperialism, Chicago, Illinois, January 4, 1899
• “Speech of the Honorable Carl Schurz” from Banquet to the Honorable Carl Schurz, Delmonico's Restaurant, New York City, March 2, 1899.
• Militarism and Democracy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 7, 1899
• The Policy of Imperialism, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 1899
• Renewed Struggles, Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League, Indianapolis, Indiana, December 14, 1899

1900s

• For the Republic of Washington and Lincoln, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1900
• Dr. Abram Jacobi, New York, New York, May 9, 1900
• For American Principles and American Honor, New York, New York, May 24, 1900 (Facsimile at Wikimedia Commons)
• For Truth, Justice and Liberty, New York, New York, September 28, 1900
• Carl Schurz Attacks Croker and Tammany, New York, New York, October 22, 1901
• Harvard Address on Civil Service Reform, Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 12, 1901
• Foreign Commerce, New York, New York, March 1902 (?) (Facsimile at Wikimedia Commons)
• Franz Sigel, New York, New York, August 24, 1902
• The Reform of the Consular Service, Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 11, 1902
• The Dedication of Germanic Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 10, 1903
• Some Object Lessons, Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League, Baltimore, Maryland, December 10, 1903
• The Present State of Civil Service Reform, Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League, Washington, D. C., December 8, 1904
• Educating Immigrants, New York, New York, December 18, 1904

Books

• Speeches of Carl Schurz, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1865.
• Life of Henry Clay (2 vols.), Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1896 and 1899.
• Abraham Lincoln: An Essay (5th ed.), Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891.
• The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz (3 vols.), New York: McClure Publ. Co., 1907 and 1908.

Articles (including open letters)

• Letters from the South, Boston Daily Advertiser, July and August, 1865
• The True Problem, The Atlantic Monthly, March 1867
• Address to the People of Missouri, The Missouri Democrat, September 11, 1870
• The Address of the Liberal Republicans, Campaign Document, June, 1872
• Statement of the Reform Conference, Press Release?, May 16, 1876
• Public Letter to Oswald Ottendorfer, July 22, 1876
• Removal of the Ponca Indians (open letter to John D. Long), December 9, 1880
• On the Case of Big Snake (open letter to Henry L. Dawes), February 7, 1881
• Present Aspects of the Indian Problem, North American Review, July 1881
• Party Schisms and Future Problems, North American Review, May 1882
• To the Editor of the Savannah News, January 30, 1883
• Aspects of the Indian Problem, The American Missionary, April 1883
• Corporations, Their Employés, and the Public, North American Review, February 1884
• Carl Schurz to the Watauga Club, The New York Times, November 15, 1885
• Millionaire Candidates, The New York Times, October 27, 1886
• Answering Mayor Hewitt, The New York Times, November 7, 1887
• To Thaddeus C. Pound (open letter), September 18, 1888
• Harper's Weekly Editorials, July 1892 - April 1898
• The Issues of the National Campaign of 1892, New York Times, September 19, 1892
• “Manifest Destiny”, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, October 1893
• Grover Cleveland's Second Administration, McClure's Magazine, May 1897
• Broadside from Schurz, The New York Times, August 28, 1897
• Some Experiences with Indians, The Youth's Companion, September 23, 1897
• Daniel Webster, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, November 1897
• A Shameful Retreat, Exeter (New Hampshire) News, November 12, 1897
• The German Press on the War, The New York Times, July 3, 1898
• Imperialism, The Independent (New York City), July 14, 1898 (Facsimile at Wikimedia Commons)
• Thoughts on American Imperialism, The Century Magazine, September 1898
• The Anglo-American Friendship, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1898
• Opposition to Roosevelt for the Governorship of New York, New York Evening Post, October 21, 1898
• Mr. Schurz and Militarism, The New York Times, April 11, 1899
• Schurz Sounds a Warning, The New York Times, October 20, 1899
• Carl Schurz to Mr. Gage, The New York Times, September 4, 1900
• Carl Schurz Replies to Secretary Gage's Letter of Sept. 4, The New York Times, September 13, 1900
• Mr. Schurz's Resignation, The New York Times, October 7, 1900
• The United States and Germany, The Independent (New York City), March 20, 1902
• Can the South Solve the Race Problem?, McClure's Magazine, January, 1903
• Letter to the Parker Independent Clubs, Pamphlet, October, 1904
• George William Curtis, McClure's Magazine, October, 1904

Letters

• Letter from Carl Schurz to Abraham Lincoln, May 22, 1860
• Letter from Carl Schurz to Abraham Lincoln, November 8, 1862
• Letter from Carl Schurz to Abraham Lincoln, November 20, 1862
• “Mr. Schurz' Reply” from St. Botolph Club, Visit of the Hon. Carl Schurz to Boston, March 1881.
• Wisconsin correspondence with John F. Potter and J. R. Doolittle (1858-1860), Milwaukee Sentinel, April 1, 1900 (Facsimile in Wikimedia Commons)
• Intimate Letters of Carl Schurz 1841-1869, Madison, Wisconsin: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1928

Other

• Court of Inquiry on Maj.-Genl. Hooker's report of the night engagement of Wauhatchie: Argument of Maj.-Gen. Carl Schurz (February 12, 1864) (Facsimile at Wikimedia Commons)
• Report to Congress on the Condition of the South (1865)
• Annual Report of the Department of the Interior (Facsimiles at Wikimedia Commons: 1877, 1880)
• Lecture on Benjamin Franklin (1884)
• The New South (1885; pamphlet)
• “Clay, Henry,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.
• “Hayes, Rutherford Birchard,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1892.
• “Clay, Henry” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Hayes, Rutherford Birchard” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• Frederic Bancroft, ed., Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz (6 vols.), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913.
  • Volume I: October 20, 1852 - November 26, 1870
  • Volume II: December 13, 1870 - February 27, 1874
  • Volume III: March 4, 1874 - June 28, 1880
  • Volume IV: July 20, 1880 - September 15, 1888
  • Volume V: January 30, 1889 - December 27, 1898
  • Volume VI: January 1, 1899 - April 8, 1906
• “Rutherford B. Hayes” in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914, 1914.

Works about Carl Schurz

• Harper's Weekly Editorials
• Harper's Weekly Articles
• New York Times Editorials
• New York Times Articles
• “Schurz, Carl” in The American Cyclopædia, 1879.
• St. Botolph Club, Visit of the Hon. Carl Schurz to Boston, March 1881.
• Massachusetts Reform Club, Complimentary Dinner to Hon. Carl Schurz, April 24, 1885. (Facsimiles at Wikimedia Commons: Menu, Proceedings)
• Edward Breck, “Germany Still Hostile,” The New York Times, May 29, 1898.
• Complimentary Banquet to the Honorable Carl Schurz on the Seventieth Anniversary of his Birthday, Delmonico's, New York City, March 2, 1899.
• “Schurz, Carl,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.
• Lyman J. Gage, “Mr. Gage Replies to Carl Schurz's Letter,” The New York Times, September 6, 1900.
• “Schurz, Carl,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• Mark Twain, “Carl Schurz, Pilot,” Harper's Weekly, May 26, 1906.
• William Dean Howells, “Carl Schurz 1829-1906,” Harper's Weekly, May 26, 1906.
• National Civil Service Reform League Memorial Resolutions, November 19, 1906.
• New York Committee of the Carl Schurz Memorial, Addresses in Memory of Carl Schurz, Carnegie Hall, November 21, 1906.
• Frederic Bancroft and William Archibald Dunning, A Sketch of Carl Schurz's Political Career 1869-1906, New York: McClure Publ. Co., 1908.
• “Schurz, Carl” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Schurz, Carl,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• Edward G. Holden, Carl Schurz in Michigan, Michigan History Magazine, 1918, pp. 69-80.
• “Schurz, Carl” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Schurz, Carl,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.

Letters to Carl Schurz

• Letter from Abraham Lincoln (June 18, 1860)
• Letter from Abraham Lincoln (November 10, 1862)
• Letter from Abraham Lincoln (November 24, 1862)

Notes

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.