The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-06

-FtSftt We AAVst1utt 4lAte8R 1lltY To-
Sixteen of the smaller States have ac-
cepted the Bismarck programme, and
are tatn to be devoured. Three of the
larger Sovereign Saxony
and d;Hesse-have forfeited their throne
by that absence which "alWaYs puts
men in the wrong" and will only be
re-lnstalled upon good show of peni-
forward to be only one will in the Faith
erland-the will OF the Prussian States
man. who, after overcoming all resist
ance, offers to abdicate his power into
the hands of national. Parliament
On one point only that assembly will
have no occasion to deliberate. The
military and diplomatic functions be-
longing to the EXECUTIVE of the future
State have already been absolutely, ex-
cluSIvely and irrevocably vested in the
hands of Prussia. On all other sub
1eets the peoples representatives will
have carte blanche, and they will cut the
cloth of the Royal and DucaI mantles
fthe minor Princes according to the
pattern that seems best to them, and
Will doubtless give proof of more than
German subtlety and Ingenuity in fix
ing the limits of Sovereign Power
from which the prerogatives of peace
and war have forever departed.
It is no wonder If all Europe, If Ger
many, and even If Prussia herself seem
as. yet to experience some difficulty in
realizing the full extent of the change
which the events of the last three weeks
have wrought on the destihies of that
country. German perception is pro-
verbally slow; German action deliber-
ate. It ts only now, when the well laid
Moltke have led the victorious armies
Of the Crown Prince and OF Prince
Frederick Charles to the gates of
Vienna, thatanything kespontaneous
movement becomes perceptible among
the ranks of Teutonic patriotism, and
the men of Hanover and Brunswick, of
Bremen and Hamburg, of Hesse, Olden-
burg and MecSlenburg, now Join
thanks in support of Bismarck's pro-
gramme of Federal Reform, Thirty
millions of North Germans, mostly
Protesta nts. are one in mind and heart,
and, whatever changes fortuna may
have in sore, the sufferings of the pres
ent war will have to be hailed as the
birth-throes of German nationality, at
least as far as the line of the Main and
the Bohemian Mountains.
South of that river and of those high
lands nothing but confusion and dis
cord seem to prevail. The victory of
Aschaffenburg has thrown open to- the
Prussians the gates of the old City of
the Bund, and the mere Rump of a
Diet has been driven in ignominious
flight to Augsburg. The Prussians
entered Frankfort on Monday evening,
amid the cordial welcome of The inha6-
itants, and the decentralization of the
kedernls Is so complete as to compel the
Bavarian Government to sue for a three
days armistfce with the Prussians. It
is possible that the march of invasion
may on this side stop at the Main. The
Prussians would rather not medCle
with the country beyond that river,
and an extension of his power over
South AL,
into Count BismarclS's calculations,
Matters are nevertheless ripe for great
changes even In those Franconian and
Swabian districts. The appeal of the
Emperor Francis Joseph to the EN-
peior Napoleon has produced that effect
which 1t was SO easy to anticipate. The
dread of a French ProtecLorate at the
head of a new Confederation of the
Rhine has sent a shudder through the
veins even of the most reckless
Democrat, and UltrRmontane of Wur-
temburg and Baden. We hear
everywhere of pamphlets and procla-
nations to the German people, urging
corporation with Prussia as the only
means of safety for the common Father
land; we hear of invectiVes against
Austria. as the foreign, SlaYo Magyar,
Gillette, Roman Catholic, half civilized
State, that could never again place
itself at the head of Germany, and
WAtSA y IuG way O1 S16Gulan
union under Prussian supremacy, and
does not shrink from the unnatural
policy oKcalling in foreign Intervention.
Should the German Parliament, as It is
expected, meet at Frankfort or Dresden
at the beginning of next September, it
is difficult to conceive how the mem-
bers from the Southern German States
can be excluded from It, It was easy
for CaVour and Napoleon to give the
first start to the instinct of unity in the
Italian people, but when once awaken
ed 1t soon became impossible for the
first movers to keep that instinct within
the limits which they fain would have
prescribed. The Germans, it is true,
do not jump at conclusions with the
same ardor and alacrity as their South
ern neighbors, but IL is possible that
Bismarck may have raised ghost
which it may be beyond even his power
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