New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-28
Prussia ana Austria.
COUNT BISMARCK ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION
BIrTER pENuNcIArIoN OF AUSTRIA.

COUNT BISMARCK ON THE POLITICAL sITBATIoN-
BITTER DENUScTATIoE OF AUSTRIA.
The following is the full text of Count Bsmafck's
dispatch to the Prussian representatives abroad,
of which Geographic summary has already been
given:
/ have already communicated to your exeelEency
at FORMER period the dispatch addressed upon
the 7t of last month to the kings ambassador at
Vienna in reference to Count Mensdorfis note of
April rs, upon the question Of the Elhe Daehies.
/ purnoselY selected for that Communication the |
form Of a confidential statement, not intended to
be conveyed in copy, because experience had
taught me that real understanding is not promo
ted 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 pos
sibiity 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 re-
marks to Baron Won Werther, Count Mensdorf
seemed to have perceived in 1T such possibility.
Indeed, the tenor of our communication, wherever
it TRANSFERRED was looked upon as symptom OF
cordial feeling, increasing hopes in the preserya-
ten of peace
We have waited in vain for o reply, or even for
q mere expression of the emperor's ambassador
on the subject.
We are forced. on the contrary, to consider the
declaration delivered by the Austrian government
at the federal Diet at Frankfort-on-t the Main, on
June LIST, as the answer to our conciliatory over
lures. In that declaration, after retrospective
statement at variance with facts and offensive to
Prussia Austria hands over to the Diet the decis-
ion upon the SchlesWig- Holstein question, and at
the same time gives notice OF an act OF sover-
eighty in Holstein, viz: the conYocation of the
estates which she is not entitled to undertake sin
gle-hauded from the moment when she released
herself from the Gastein treaty by reference to the
Diet, and thereby substituted the old relation
of the co-possession for the recent geographical
division
we have already protested at Vienna against
this uniustifabe and one sided act as against the
equally unjRstfable disposal of our rights by hand
inn hon nUp n a
take further steps.
But first, cannot refrain from declaring that in
this proceeding of the Austrian government we
are unable to perceive anything but the intention
Of direct proyoeation, and the desire forciby to
bring about breach and war.
All our information agrees that the determine
tionto make war upon Prussia is firmly settled in
Vienna.
may confdentially aequaint your eXcellency,
by his maiestys desire, that at the time when we
addressed the conciliatory communication above
mentioned to Vienna the king, actuated by the
duty Of preserving peace as long as possible,
readily listened to proposal for direct under
standing 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 Emperor Of Austria was
still aetuated by the wish of maintaining peace
The proposal was to treat the SchlesWig -Holsteir
and the federal reform questions in common, ant
by this connection to facilitate the solution Of both
The negotiations, supported by the most eoncila
tory desires on the part of the medators, have
De bis majesty informs me- only demonstrated that
corresponding feeling no longer exists al Vienna
They have shown, notwithstanding the emperor
theoretical love of peace, the craving for wa
which dominates every other consideration
throughout his entire council, even among thos
who, to cur knowledge, formerly voted agains
the war; and even against the preparations ant
armaments, and that this craving has now ais
gained decisive influence over the emperor him
self, Not only was there manifested an entire alb
senee Of all and every readiness to enter even int
confidential negotiations and TO discuss the posi-
bities Of an agreement, but expressions OF in
hueutiai Austrian statesmen and cOunseors of thu
emperor have been reported to the king from al
authentic source, which leaves no doubt that th
Imperial ministers desire war al any price, part.
In the hope Of success in the field, partly TO It'd
over domestic dhenlties-nay, even with the ex
pressed Intention OF assisting the Austrian finance
BY Ptnssian contributions or by an honorable
bankruptcy.
The acts Of the Austrian government coincid
only too accurately with this Intention
have mentioned above that we are Compellei
to recognize direct preyoeaton in the declara
ton delivered at the Diet 1t has only one mean
ing, if the Vienna cabinet intends to follow it III
immediately with the expressed breach for it can
not have expected that we should tamely submit
to ths attack upon our rights. In another queE
ton, the forced loan ordered In Nenetia, Whie
impresses sting Of additional bitterness upo
circumstances, shows that Austria will only max
use of the EXTREMIST means towards Italy also
Corresponding with this are the reserves Wit
which, according to tile intormatiOnreceiPad htrJ
she accompanied her answer TO the invitation
the conference, and which, as we hear, arc unde
stood By all the Ihree powers IS equivalent TO
refusal
After ths fern Or tic invitation had, by neg,
iiaJDn between the inviting powers, been e,