Harper's Weekly, Harper's Weekly Editorials on Carl Schurz…
“ I cannot forget that this republic, which it has cost so much strife and so much blood to establish and to preserve, stands in the world to prove to struggling mankind that the self-government of the people under wise laws is able to evolve all necessary remedies for existing evils without violating popular liberty or constitutional rights. ”
Harper's Weekly, Harper's Weekly Editorials on Carl Schurz…
“ The citizens of a republic have to pay some price for the great boon of their common liberty. But do we not know, also, or have we despaired of it, that in a republic remedies for such evils can be found in entire consonance with the spirit and form of republican institutions and of constitutional government? ”
Harper's Weekly, Harper's Weekly Editorials on Carl Schurz…
“ Admit that the hundredth anniversary of this Republic must be the confession of its failure, and make up your minds to change the form as well as the nature of our institutions; for to play at republic longer would then be a cruel mockery. ”
