Th natural gifts of Mr. Scuae.NI were great. The colegiate traning he had received at the University of Giessen and his subsequent experience as civil engineer in the construction of railroads in his native country had so expanded and disciplined his powers that when in 1847 he emigrated to Texas he brought to that young State the best gift that man could bring. a vigorous frame. a large mind. high culture. thorough intellectual discipline. and a manhood which he proposed to devote to her interests under his highest convictions of right truth. and duty. from which he seems never to have found it expedient to swerve. Few men who have served so brief a period in Congress as the Disposer of events permitted him to do. have left in the permanent results of their congressional labors such evidence of remarkable capabilities. disciplined by schools and expanded by experiences. primarily in the midst of dense population inwhichhigh culture prevailed. and subsequently in the wilderness and upon the borderland of two republics.manyof whose frontiersmen found pleasure and profit in deeds of lawlessness. That one whose nature was so full of gentleness. should have cast his lot withsuch a community. was. fromthe time I cametoknowMr.
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