A critic might, without carping, suggest that it is the duty of an earnest man to disregard the bespattering which fidelity to principle often incurs, and that a beaten path to safe place for one's self is not an inspiring or worthy object of statesmanship.
Nor is Mr.Schurz's independence of party more pronounced or more complete than his independence of true American feeling.

He has taken no pride in appearing under the simple but lofty title of a citizen of the United States.

He stands rather as a representative German-American.

He has made his native nationality a political resource, and has thereby fallen short of the full honor due to his adopted nationality.

The large body of American citizens of German birth are intensely attached to their new home, and seek the most complete identification of themselves and their descendants with the development and destiny of the Great Republic.