Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-26
EUROPEAN NEWS.
Count Bismarck on the Political SiGua-
fiOn-Bitter Pronunciation of Austria.

fiOn-Bitter Pronunciation of Austria.
The following is the full text of Count
BIsMARCK's dispatch to the Prussian repre-
sentatives abroad, of which a Geographic
summary has already been given:
| have already communicated to your ex-
cellency at former period the dispat CHI
addressed upon the 9TH of last month to the
Kings Ambassador at Vienna, in reference
to Count MENsDORFF's note of April %,
upon the question of the Elbe Duchies.
purposely selected for THAT communication
the form of Il confidential statement, not in
tended to be conveyed in copy, because eI-
perience had taught me that a real under
standing is not promoted by the exchange
of documents, which are wont Immediately
to obtain publicity, and because it was the
first wish of the Kings Government still to
offer or leave open to the Vienna Cabinet
the possibility of an approach. We had
also, at first cause to assume that this step
of ours would be appreciated at Vienna, and,
Judging from his remarks to Baron Won
WERTER, Count MENsDoRFF seemed to
have perceived in it such possibility. In
deed the tenor of our communication, wherev-
er it transpired, was looked upon az a symp-
tom Of cordial feeling, increasing hopes in
the preservation of peace.
We have waited in vain for reply, or
even for mere expression of the Emperor's
Ambassador upon the subject.
We are forced on the contrary, to consider
the declaration delivered by the Austrian
Government at the Federal Diet at Frank
fort-on-the-Main, on June l, as the answer to
our conciliatory oyertures. In that declara-
ton, after a retrospective statement at va
rance with facts and offensive to Prussia,
Austria hands over to the Diet the decision
upon the Schleswig- Holstein question, and
at the same time gives notice of an act of SOW
ereignty in Holstein, viz, the convocation
of the Estates, which she is not entitled to
undertake single-handed from the moment
when she released herself from the Gastien
Treaty by reference to the Diet and thereby
substituted the old relation Of the opposes
sion for the recent geographical division.
We have ALREADY protested at Vienna
against this uniustifable and one-sided act,
as against the equally uniustifahle disposal
of our rights by handing them over to the
Diet, and reserve TO us to take further steps.
But, first, cannot refrain from declaring
that in this proceeding of the Austrian Gov
ernment We are unable to perceive anything
but the intention of a direct provocation,
and the desire forcibly to bring about a
breach and a war.
All our information agrees that the de-
termination to make war upon Prussia Is
firmly settled in Vienna.
may confidently acquaint your Excel
lencv, by His Majesty's desire, that at the
time when We addressed the cOnciliatory
communication above mentioned to Vienna
the King actuated by the duty of preserv-
ing peace as long as possible, readily listened
TO a proposal for direct understanding made
from an impartial quarter at Vienna, and
first communicated to His Majesty, without
the participation of the Ministry, in order
TO ascertain whether His Majesty, the En-
peror of Austria, was still actuated by the
wish of maintaining peace. The proposal
was to treat the Schleswig- Holstein and the
Federal Reform questions in common, and
by this connection TO facilitate the solution
OF both. The negotiations, supported by the
most conciliatory desires on the part of the
mediators, have, as His Majesty informs me,
only demonstrated that corresponding feel
ing no longer exists at Vienna. They have
shown, Notwithstanding the Emperor's theo-
retical love of peace, the craving for war
which dominates every other consideration
throughout his entire council, even among
those who to our knowledge, formerly voted
against the war, and even against the prepa-
rations and ornaments, and that this cray-
ing has now also gained decisive influence
over the Emperor himself Not only was
there manifested an entire absence of all
and every readiness to enter even into conf
Dental negotiations and to discuss the pos
sibilities of an agreement but expressions
of influential Austrian statesmen and coun-
cillors OF the Emperor have been reported to
the King from IN authentic source, which
leaves no doubt that the Imperial Ministers
desire war at any price, partly in the hope
Of success in the field partly to ride over