The reminiscences . t walk to see the town:—^the verynoisy bustle on the principal streets; the men, old and young,mostly looking serious and preoccupied, and moving on withenergetic rapidity; the women also appearing sober-mindedand busy, although many of them were clothed in loud colors,red, green, yellow, or blue of a very pronounced glare; thepeople, although they must have belonged to very differentstations in life, looking surprisingly alike in feature and ex-pression as well as habit; no military sentinels at public build-ings; no soldiers on the streets; no liveried coachmen or serv-an
The reminiscences . t walk to see the town:—^the verynoisy bustle on the principal streets; the men, old and young,mostly looking serious and preoccupied, and moving on withenergetic rapidity; the women also appearing sober-mindedand busy, although many of them were clothed in loud colors,red, green, yellow, or blue of a very pronounced glare; thepeople, although they must have belonged to very differentstations in life, looking surprisingly alike in feature and ex-pression as well as habit; no military sentinels at public build-ings; no soldiers on the streets; no liveried coachmen or serv-ants; no uniformed officials except the police. We observedhuge banners stretched across the street, upon which were in-scribed the names of Pierce and King as the Democratic, andScott and Gorham as the Whig, candidates for the presidencyand the vice-presidency—^names which at that time had, tome, no meaning, except that they indicated the impendingpresidential election and the existence of competing political [6]. O THE REMINISCENCES OF CARL SCHURZparties. As to the American politics of the day, I had receivedonly some vague impressions through my conversations withvarious persons. My friend Kinkel, who had visited the UnitedStates in 1851 in the interest of the revolutionary movement inEurope, had been received by President Fillmore and had de-scribed him to me as a freundlicher und wohlwoUender Greis (an amiable and benevolent old gentleman). Of the politicalparties he could tell me only that they both seemed to be domi-nated by the slave-holders, or at least to be afraid of the slaveryquestion, and that most of the Germans in the United Stateswere on the side of the Democrats, because they were attractedby the name of democracy and because they believed that theDemocratic party could be more surely depended upon to pro-tect the rights of the foreign-born citizens. The news articlesabout American politics which I had read in European papershad been, as they mostly have rem
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