His great talents had only to lend themselves to party uses to get their full requital.

He refused them equally to Grant in the White House and the multitude in Missouri, going his own gait, which could be called erratic only by the conventional, to whom regularity is everything and individuality nothing.
Schurz was first of all and above all an orator.

His achievements on the platform and in the Senate were undeniable.

He was unsurpassed in debate.

He had no need to exploit himself.