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LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS RECEIVED.
Among the many letters and telegrams received from
the friends of Mr. Schurz who were prevented from
attending the Banquet, were the following:
FROM EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.
February 18, 1899.
Gustav H. Schwab, Esq.
My Dear Sir: I regret exceedingly that I cannot promise myself the pleasure of participating in the celebration of Mr. Schurz's seventieth birthday. I find that an engagement, which I had hoped might be postponed, will prevent my attendance.
My disappointment is measured by the extreme gratification it would afford me to contribute my testimony to the volume that will be presented on the occasion you have arranged, in grateful support of Mr. Schurz's usefulness and patriotic citizenship.
His life and career teach lessons that cannot be too often or too impressively emphasized. They illustrate the moral grandeur of disinterested public service, and the nobility of a fearless advocacy of the things that are right and just and safe. It will be a sad day for our country when, in the light of such an example, our people refuse to see the best statesmanship in steadfast
