Was it for this that oceans of patriotism, of treasure and of blood had been poured out?
Was it for this that he had fought with tongue and pen and sword?
There was Sumner--the great Sumner--who had quarreled with Grant and Fish, to keep him company and urge him on.

There was the Tribune, the puissant Tribune--two of them, one in New York and the other in Chicago--to give him countenance.

There was need of liberalizing and loosening things in Missouri, for which he sat in the Senate--they could not go on forever half the best elements in the State disfranchised.
Thus the Liberal Movement of 1872.
Schurz went to Cincinnati elate with hope.

He was an idealist--not quite yet a philosopher.

He had his friends about him.