He has not become rooted and grounded anywhere, has never established a home, is not of any locality or of any class, has no fixed relation to Church or State, to professional, political, or social life, has acquired none of that companionship and confidence which unites old neighbors in the closest ties, and give to friendship its fullest development, its most gracious attributes.
The same unsteadiness has entered as a striking feature in the public career of Mr.Schurz.

The party he upheld yesterday met with his bitterest denunciations the day before, and to-morrow he will support the political organization of whose measures he is the most merciless censor to-day.

He boasts himself incapable of attachment to party, and in that respect radically differs from the great body of his American fellow-citizens.

He cannot even comprehend that exalted sentiment of honorable association in public life which holds together successive generations of men,--a sentiment which in the United States causes the Democrat to reverence the memory of Jefferson and Jackson and Douglas, which causes his opponent to glory in the achievements of Hamilton and Clay and Lincoln; a sentiment which in England has bound the Whigs in a common faith and common glory, from Walpole to Gladstone, and their more conservative rivals in a creed of loyalty whose disciples, from Bolingbroke to Beaconsfield, include many of the noblest of British patriots.
For these party associations, to whose influence, under the restraint of intelligent patriotism, the wisest legislation is due, Mr.Schurz has neither approbation nor appreciation.

He aspires to the title of "Independent," and has described his own position as that of a man sitting on a fence, with clean boots, watching carefully which way he may leap to keep out of the mud.