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, Daenzer had made himself obnoxious to the German government with efforts to bring about German unity by force of arms. For his rebellious course, he was condemned to ten years imprisonment with a heavy fine. He escaped to Switzerland, and thence to the

. In 1851, he drifted into St. Louis as a general writer and was hired by

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as editor for the ', of which Boernstein had recently become proprietor. Daenzer edited the paper until 1857 when, due to differences of various kinds which had arisen with Boernstein, he resigned. With the aid of friends, Daenzer started the ', which would be a vigorous competitor with the ' for several decades to come. The initial investment was comparatively small, $1,275, but the paper paid its way from the beginning. It did business under the firm name of Daenzer & Wenzel. Wenzel sold his part in 1859, and Daenzer left the paper in 1860 due to health reasons. In 1870 ranco-Prussian Warhe collected more than one million Dollars for wounded German soldiers. In 1885 President Cleveland asked him as US-ambassador to Bern (Suisse). But he refused. When Daenzer returned to St. Louis in 1862 after having left for

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in 1860, he found that the ''Anzeiger'' had gone out of business. He resuscitated the old concern under the name of the ', for the publication of which a company was incorporated, including William Palm, Charles Speck and others. After a time, the word "" (new) was dropped. Although in the main supporting Democratic measures, the chief quality of the '' was its complete independence. On June 1, 1898, the ' was consolidated with the ', and Daenzer retired. He spent his retirement years in

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Legacy

A statue, ''Naked Truth'' was erected in St. Louis in memory of Daenzer and two others who worked on the ', Carl Schurz and Emil Preetorius. In 1870, a Carl Daenzer, perhaps the same person, released 20

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into Lafayette Park in St. Louis.

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