It contained nothing to which any one could object, as we might infer from his position with the king, and yet I heard the poet himself say a few days afterward that the editors of a certain well-known journal, in publishing it, left out the stanzas containing the word _Freiheit_ (liberty), so fearful were they of not pitching their tune to a key that would suit royal and Government ears. A similar sensitiveness pervaded the whole body present--nearly all drew their bread and beer from the Government, and did not wish it stopped or diminished. This class had gotten up the meeting, and hoped to control it. When they saw Dr. Neumann rise, they felt that _there_ was a man _naturally_ fearless, and _now_ quite beyond that special sense of danger which made them cautious. Recollection passed over his seven years' silence, and called up the power with which he had harangued in other years. Nor was it so much what he said as the man who said it, which produced the effect, and yet there was much in the speech. He said that Schiller had been eulogized as a social and domestic man, poet, and historian; but nothing had been said of him as a _politician_, and he should speak of him in this character. The _rising_ of _such_ a man was an electric shock, suggestive of that which in 1848 made all Europe tremble from centre to circumference. The word _politician_ was a _second_ shock, drawing with it suggestively all the concomitants of that revolution, as yet so well remembered by all. And when he proceeded to compare Schiller with Goethe--the _former_ frankly addressing himself to his friend in correspondence on the great questions of their politics, and trying to draw him out, the _latter_, then a minister of state, cautiously and warily declining to expose his views--he but carried out the impression made in his rising and his announcement. It was the only properly stump speech--I use the phrase in the high sense in which it might be used of O'Connell or Clay--I ever heard in Germany. Such is the man who has undertaken to write our country's history for the Germans. Of his _work_ I have said nothing, for I have not seen it; I write this impromptu on seeing the newspaper announcement of the first volume. He will doubtless do much to set us right in the eyes of his own people, where, however, there is less need of this than in _another_ land, whose people are more nearly related to us, where such service, however, is less likely to be done. THE GREAT AMERICAN CRISIS. _PART THREE._