The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz
McClure's Magazine

From the steel engraving after the life drawing by F. Lieder, made in 1830

PRINCE METTERNICH
CHANCELLOR AND PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRIA

Metternich, leader of the reactionary party in Europe 1815-1848, was overthrown by the disturbances of 1848. He was “the evil genius of Germany” — “to whom every emotion of German patriotism was foreign,” and who “hated and feared every free aspiration among the people.”