Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1929, Page 6

DSTRGT T0 ONOR SCHADES MENRY German - American Author, Lawyer and Editor Was Exponent of Justice. ‘The memory of Louise Schade, Ger- man-American author, lawyer and jour- nalist, whose love of justice led him to perform a service held in contempt by a great many people, will be revered at formal exercises this week. Thursday will mark the 100th anni- versary of the birth of Mr. Schade, whose notable career had a sensational climax in the trial of Capt. Henry Wirz, convicted by a military commission on charges of murdering United States soldiers at the Andersonville, Ga., mili- | tary prison, and put to death in the old jail yard in Washington on the morning of November 10, 1865. Schade defended him, Defense Won Friends. At that time Schade was well known in Washington as editor, linguist and statistician. He had been in the serv- ice of the State Department and was highly regarded as a political adviser, chiefly because of his close friendship with Senator Stephen A. Douglas, the “little giant.” His defense of Capt. Wirz won him thousands of friends in the South, and people of that section will join with a daughter, Miss Anita Schade, of 1529 Rhode Island avenue, in observing the anniversary of his birth. Fred Schade of Spokane, the only surviving son, will be unable to attend. The first service will be held at the grave side in Prospect Hill Cemetery ‘Thursday morning. Friends of Mr. Schade, including men and women of German origin to whom he was devoted throughout his life, will meet there to pay tribute to his memory. A memorial service will be held April 7 at the Con- cordia Lutheran Church, of which Mr. Schade was a member. Rev. Paul Men- zel, former pastor of the church and for years a warm friend of the family, will officiate. The anniversary date also will be observed in Germany. Miss Schade has_been advised that the University of Berlin, where her father studied in 1847-48, will hold special services for the student body on April 12, and that the president, Prof. Dr. W. His, will de- liver an address on Mr. Schade’s life. ‘Was Condemned to Death. Cultured, highly educated and, after the nature of his people, essentially idealistic. Louis Schade found in the United States opportunities for politi- cal service, apart from the holding of office, that were denied him in his own Jand. He was born in Berlin, April 4, 1829. At the age of 19, he was a student in the University of Berlin. ‘With Carl Schurz, later a Representa- tive in the Congress of the United States, and other students he partici- pated in the Revolution of 1848-51 and as penalty for building barricades in the city against government troops he was condemned to death. He came to this country as the adopted son of Mr: and Mrs. Priedrich Gerhard, who located in Weehawken, N. J. Schade soon came to Washington. The young man spoke four languages, and translated five others with faeility. Prof. Henry of the Smithsonian Insti- tute became interested in him and through him the youth was offered the position of assistant librarian at the in- stitute. Schade filied the post until 1854, transferred to the Census Bureau, and in the following year went to the State Department as translator and statis- tician. 4 Edited Chicago Newspaper. Senator Douglas of Illinois became interested in Schade and induced him to go to Chicago as editor of his paper, the National Demokrat, a German lan- guage paper, and also as editor of the National Union, printed in English. This association opened to Schade a field of endeavor that his nature and training had schooled him for. Within five years, when the great Douglas had served as the foll that placed Abraham Lincoln in the leadership of the Re- | Kublican party and the issue of slavery ad been joined, Schade, alone of the outstanding German - Americans, re- tained a conviction of justification of the South’s position. The German ele- ment, idealistic, sympathetic with the movement for political freedom then sweeping their own land, had settled in the Northern States, for the most part, and the sentiment of the people was in support of the freedom of slaves. During his editorial work in Illinois Schade gained force as a political speaker. At the suggestion of the | Democratic national committee he stumped the German districts in Illinois and Iowa, and was especially active during the Lincoln-Douglas campaign. | He was admitted to the bar in Burling- ton, Iowa. Following the campaign in 1860 Schade returned to Washington and took up the practice of Jaw. Of gentle manner and extremely able as a stu- dent, he enjoyed a large practice, and might have acquired a fortune had he not given freely of his services to {riends and acquaintances. The Wirz trial drew him into national promi- nence, Letter Explains Defense. The background of the Wirz affair is given at length in a letter Mr. Schade 2ddressed “to the American people” on the eve of his departure for Berlin é‘:ut‘iaghril Eintiul’rl\'. l-he‘ letter was pril 4, the lawyer's -t birthday m,,mr,,-y e I will now give a brief statement of the causes which led to the arrest and execution of Capt. Wirs” he wrote. The letter is now regarded as a valu- able contribution to the papers of the trying period following the Civil War. In_April, 18 President Johnson A TYPE TO SUIT YOUR HOME QuowC Made expressly for the larger homes or a ents an DisroMati( For the small home, bunga- low or water heater. Phone Potomac 2048 or write for list of 600 Washington installations— . it will be MAILED to you! . . HEATING STEM! I Recanditioned LOUIS SCHADE. issued a proclamation, stating that from evidence in the possession of the ‘Bu- reau of Military Justice’ it appeared that Jefferson Davis was implicated in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and for that reason the President of- fered a reward of $100,000 on the cap- ture of the then fugitive ex-President of the Southern Confederacy. * =* * “Certain high and influential ene- mies of Jefferson Davis, either then already aware of the character of thg testimony of those witnesses or nol thinking their testimony quite sufficlent to hang Mr. Davis, expected to find the wanting material in the terrible mor- tality of Union prisoners at Anderson- ville. ‘Wirz Assailed by Press. “Orders were issued accordingly to arrest a subaltern officer, Capt. Wirz, a poor, friendless and wounded prisoner of war (he being included in the sur- render of Gen. Johnston) and, besides, a foreigner by birth. On the 7th day of May he was placed in the Old Capitol Prison at Washington, and from that time the greater part of the Northern press was busily engaged in forming the unfortunate man, in the eyes of the Northern people, into such & monster that it became almost impossible for him to obtain counsel. “Even his countryman, the Swiss con- sul general, publicly refused to accept money to defray the expenses of th trial. He was doomed before he was heard, and even the permission to be heard according to law was denied him. To increase the excitement and give eclat to the proceeding, and to influ- ence still more the public mind, the trial took place under the very dome of the Capitol of the Nation. A mili- tary commission, presided over by one of the most arbitrary and despotic gen- erals in the country, was formed: and the paroled prisoner of war, his wounds still open, was so feeble that he had to recline during the trial on a sofa. How that trial was conducted the whole world knows.” N Such was Schade’s view of the pro- ceedings. The trial itself and the circumstances surrounding the com- mission’s finding long have been moot subjects. Several books have been written about the affair by men either associated with the proceedings or acquainted, by reason of having been prisoners at Andersonville, with condi- tions there. A series of charges against Wirz, the principal one being that he conspired with Jefferson Davis and others to murder the Union prisoners in his charge, were heard by the court. He was found gullty of several of the charges, although the implication of with you. DELIVERS Domestic Service Corporation 1706 Connecticut Avenue Ezclusive Agents for Oil-O-Matic Willism H. Gottlieb, Manager Heating Engingers for more than 36 years THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO! . Davis was not established, and :{‘;vmnb‘er 10, 1865, after a trial of three months, Wirz was h:nnd.‘ Tried to Clear Wirz's Name. Mr. Schade promised Wirs he would do all in his power to clear his memory and during the remainder ‘of his life ‘| he kept that promise, He saw to it that the body was given Christian burial axnd aided in so far as he was able the wife and two children of the condemned man. Louls Schade lived for 38 years after Wirz was hanged. His daughter, Miss Anita Schade, recalls that his char- acteristic good humor- seemed to fail him only on each November 10, fol- lowing the execution. Members of his devoted family, who for ;years lived at 516 Tenth street in the house in which! Abraham Lincoln died, were reminded in later years of the circumstances ex- plaining the preqgccupation of Mr. Schade on that day. His activity in Washington, however, ‘was more prominent following the war. In 1870, W. W. Corcoran, philanthropist, assisted Schade /in establishing the ‘Washington Sentinel, & weekly news- paper that thrived for 30 years. Deeply interested in all public questions, he appeared often before Congress in sup- port of measures calculated to extend the privilege of personal liberty and throughout the latter period of his life he gave expression to a warm affection for the Southern people, their aspira- t®ns and their leaders. Active in es- pousing the development of the Capital City, Schade was a frank and often vigorous critic of the regime of Gov. Shepherd, the first and only governor of the District. He fought many of Shepherd's proposals. and projects. Credited With Effecting Embargo. It was during this period that he was credited with a maneuver that in- duced President Grant to place an em- bargo on arms shipped to France for use in the Pranco-Prussian war. Under date of February 24, 1871, a Prussian newspaper printed under a Washing- ton date line an article descriptive of Schade’s effort. “At last the administration here has been induced to prohibit the exportation ot munitions by the War Department, a thing which has received the censure of the entire German-American press,” it said. “The credit of securing this prohibi- tion is due the solicitor here, Louis Schade, a German, born in Berlin or Brandenburg. In the past nothing had come up in Congress relating to the export of arms. The then German representatives, Schurz, Finkelnburg and Degener, had not dared, for party considerations, to touch upon this very important subject, either in the Senate or in the House. Schade brought the maiter to the attention of Congress by inducing Representative Boyd of Missouri to read a petition to the House on January 22. This was referred to the committee on military affairs, whose chairman, Gen. Logan, had pre- viously given assurance that he was opposed to the practice of exporting munitiens. The reference to this com- mittee is the principal cause of the &bove prohibition, which followed imme- diately the next day, June 23.” Mr. Schade bought the house at 516 ‘Tenth street in 1879 and lived there until 1893. Anita, the first child born to Mr. and Mrs. Schade, was born in Virginia on an estate the family main- tained for a time; the other four chil- dren were born in the Tenth street home. The famous house, now a shrine, was sold to the Government by Mr. Schade with the request that it be maintained gs it had been known in Linceln’s day. Declined Public Office. The election of Grover Cleveland brought to the White House the first Democratic President since the war. Schade, an intimate friend of Secretary of State Bayard, was invited to the ‘White House and offered the position of register of wills. 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