"The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages."
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About Carl Schurz
Carl Schurz was a German revolutionary, American statesman, and reformer. He was born in 1829 in Liblar, Prussia, and took part in the German Revolutions of 1848. Fleeing to the US, he became a prominent figure in the anti-slavery movement and the Republican Party. Schurz served as a Union army general during the Civil War, later becoming a US Senator and Secretary of the Interior. He advocated for civil service reform, Indian rights, and was a vocal critic of corruption in government.
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