. History of German immigration in the United States and successful German-Americans and their descendants . tooped to any of the well-worn arti-fices with which demagogues from time imme-morial have been wont to tickle the ears of themob. As was truly of him. he always -pokea- a rational man to rational men; he wa- al-ways sure of his subject and always full of it,and the natural consequence wa- that he always had something to say that was worthy of serious •011 even from those who mighl differ fromhim in opinion. Hi- natural gifts fororatory he had sedulously cultivated by a
. History of German immigration in the United States and successful German-Americans and their descendants . tooped to any of the well-worn arti-fices with which demagogues from time imme-morial have been wont to tickle the ears of themob. As was truly of him. he always -pokea- a rational man to rational men; he wa- al-ways sure of his subject and always full of it,and the natural consequence wa- that he always had something to say that was worthy of serious •011 even from those who mighl differ fromhim in opinion. Hi- natural gifts fororatory he had sedulously cultivated by a diligent stud) of the best models, with the remarkable that although be had arrived at mantate before acquiring a practical acquaintance withour language, his English style very rarely, and even then only very slightly, betrayed his foreignbirth and education: and in acquiring -o command of a foreign idiom he had never in any d Feited his mastery of his native tongue To his other qualities he added a quick vvi and a biting sarca-m. which could cut verywithout ever Overstepping the bounds of. GUSTAV H. SCHWAB. 47 SUCCESSFUL GERMAN-AMERICANS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS 49 parliamentary decorum, and which made him for-midable both in attack and in defense. In fine,we might say, speaking on Bacons hint, that hewas at once a full man, a ready man, and anexact man. But he has a better claim than thatto the respect of the American people. It isBacon, again, who tells us that talk is but atinkling cymbal where there is no love, andSchurzs greatness as an orator lies in this, thathe not only spoke as a rational man to rationalmen, but as a man of heart and of conscience,who judges other men by himself, and feels thathis best hold is in appealing to the better natureof his hearers. What he said of Sumner in hisunsurpassed eulogy of the Massachusetts sena-tor, that he stands as the most pronouncedidealist among the public men of America, mightwith equal truth be said of himself. Th
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