He was affluent in language, graceful in manner, and, beyond all, was gifted with that quality--rare, indefinable, but recognized by every one--which constitutes the orator.
-- Carl Schurz now took his seat as a senator from Missouri.

He was born a Prussian subject, and had just completed his fortieth year.

He had been well educated in the gymnasium at Cologne, and in a partial course at the university of Bonn.

Though retaining a marked German accent, he quickly learned to speak English with fluency and eloquence, and yet with occasional idiomatic errors discernible when he words are printed.

He took active part before German audiences, for Fremont, in the Presidential canvass of 1856, and began to make public addresses in English in 1858, when he espoused the cause of Mr.Lincoln in the famous contest with Douglas.