The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-09-06
The European War.

us no tidings of the actual ratification OF
g permanent treaty of peace between the
great belEgerent powers of Europe. MAI
ters are progressing, however, so certain
ly and inevitably to that result that there
is not the remotest possibility OF any
fresh complications interfering with the
claims of Prussia. AT present, however,
the sympathics of Christendom are kocnc
lv enlisted IN behalf of a score or more OF
unhappy kings, princes, grand dukes
landgravcs and other dignitaries, who
have lost their thrones and royal peroga-
tives from the absorption of their terrific
ries by greedy Prussia.
Tho poor old blind King of Hanover
has been required to abdicate, and num-
Der of other grand and loyal personageeAs5
have been turned out in the cold and VIII
have a hard time of it, unless their prl-
yate resources are more abundant than
we have been led to suppose they were
by the many tales Of the poverty. OF the
petty German princes.
Prussia, it will bc seen, persists in car
rying out the original design of absorb
ING such portions of the Germanic Con,
federation as will perfect the territorial
confguration, establish her southern
boundary, and give her ample maratlmc
frontier. "Her plans, it is now evident,
will be conceded and consented to by the
other powers of Europe, and will give
Prussia territory of extent equal to
that of Russia, and even more populous
and far greater than that of either France
or Austria, while tho new boundaries OF
the Elbe, the Rhine and the North Sea
give her great additional advantage"
AS the London Times philosophicaliy
says of Count Bismarck: ellis policy
is not amenablo to the common law OF
human reasoning There is no use argyll
ing with gambler in the public lottery,
and proving that the odds are against
him, as nino hundred and ninety-nine to
one. He has drawn the great prize, and
there is nothing more blind, deaf, unrea-
soning and irrefutable than success"
In spite of the apparently irrepressible
insolence of Count Bismarck, which do
lights in the gratuitous affront of power
full neutral powers, he must forever be
known in history as the foremost man
the colossal fgure-among the Diplo.
matists, Kings, Generals and Ministers OF
the late great European war. lie will
have large chapter in German history.
The last great wars in Europe produced
two great statesmen, whose fame eclipsed
that of the Field Marshals who directed
the movements of the opposing armies.
Count Cavour, the Prime Minister of Sar-
-dinia, called Italy into political life when
Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel defeated
the Austrians, and moulded powerful,
compact and prosperous empire out OF the
weak and petty States of Italy
After military campaign of less than
five weeks, which was marked by battles
as great and decisive as that Of Waterloo,
Count Bismarck, who has been called the
Cavour of the North of Europe, strikes
down the oldest and for centuries the
most powerful of modern nations, utterly
destroys the landmarks Of 1915, drives
Austria out of the German -gontedera-
ton, and erects Prussia into frst-class
power.
A photograph of this wonderful man
is now before us, and we can call to mind
no face or portrait among the living or
the dead which reveals the whole charac-
ter of tho man in it's lineamcnts as clear
ly as does Count Bismarck's His head
is large, forehead capacious and towering,
eyes dark, defiant and cavcrnous, eyelds
dropping, mouth compressed, firm and
resolute, moustache dark and heavy, but
not concealng the character and express
sion of the mouth The face is ncverthe-
less thoroughly German, evcn to that
pufiness beneath the eyes which some
times marks too great devotion to lager
beer.
Bismarck is now fifty-two years of age,
and was born in 1914, at Brandenburg,
and saw the light but twelve months be-
fore that famous partition, dismembcr-
ment and redivision Of empires, kingdoms
and principalties which he has just so
rudely disturbed. He was educated at
Gottingen, and was one of the most re-
nowned duellist of his day at that Uni
versity, but failed to distinguish himself
as scholar. At the age Of twenty he
entered the Prussian army and served in
the infantry. Subsequently he entered
diplomatic life, and worked his way up
by his audacity, impudence and cffronte-
1y, no less than by his remarkable abili-
ties. When clerk in tho office of Sec
retary OF State, he is said to have been
kept waiting in the ante-chamber an hour
for an interview with his chief. When
he was at last admitted, he stalled up to
the minister and said: "Sir, you have
kept me waiting for an interview for an
hour, and now decline it,"
He was from the first the haughtiost
and most merciless of absoutists, and
when member Of the Diet actually
made speech advocating the destruction
of largo cities because they were the hot
beds Of Republican principles. His in
tense hatred of Austria is said, like that
of Hannibal for Rome. to have been man.