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adherence to conscience and honesty in storm as well as sunshine.
I believe that the most confident hope of the permanency and continued beneficence of our free institutions rests upon the cultivation by those entrusted with public duty, and among the ranks of our countrymen, of the traits which have distinguished the man whom you propose to honor.
Yours very truly,
FROM HERR VON HOLLENBEN, AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF GERMANY TO THE UNITED STATES.
Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, New-York City:
To my infinite regret, I am prevented from accepting your kind invitation to the dinner to be given in honor of the Hon. Carl Schurz. May I ask you to express my regret to the gentlemen of the Committee, and to forward to Mr. Schurz my warmest congratulations on his seventieth birthday. His long life has been blessed in its usefulness to the United States and to the German cause therein, and his name will be repeated to-day with praise and thankfulness, both in his old and in his adopted fatherland.
(Signed,)Von Hollenben,
Imperial German Ambassador,
