Anyhow, from that moment to the hour of his death we were the best of friends.
Without the inner circle of the Quadrilateral, which had taken matters into their own hands, were a number of persons, some of them disinterested and others simple curiosity and excitement seekers, who might be described as merely lookers-on in Vienna.

The Sunday afternoon before the convention was to meet we, the self-elect, fell in with a party of these in a garden "over the Rhine," as the German quarter of Cincinnati is called.

There was first general and rather aimless talk.
Then came a great deal of speech making.

Schurz started it with a few pungent observations intended to suggest and inspire some common ground of opinion and sentiment.

Nobody was inclined to dispute his leadership, but everybody was prone to assert his own.