The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-27


rcr King and Fatberland until Prussia's eagle shall
have ohasiised the naughty enem and hesh aures
shall ad0rn the beloved black and, white Standard
andW
The spirit that conceived and penned these
words IN New York Is the spirit that governs
Prussia to day, and changed the political com
plexion of the Prussan Chambers so much In
favor of Bismark. That spirit wants an en-
larged, an agRTandized Prussia, the equal, II not
superior, III power to France and RUSSIA, and
the King, as the Prussian monarch, the arbiter
of the destinies of the Continent. The idea Ot
being Germans or anythng else but Prussians,
Is secuted by il almost as an insult, and the as
prations OF the German people Tor German
unity, except under exclusive Prusslan sway
have nothing to expect from it.. ... ......
We know well enough that there are people IN
Prussia of different cast OF mind, who would
gladly, at any moment, exchange Pruss'an for
German nationality their ~olack and white" for
bulk of the population of the western provinces
OF Prussia, as in Westphalla and Rhenish Prus-
sia. But they are powerless in shaping the
course of their Government, and notwithstanding
their enlarged German sympathies, they will
have TO follow wherever Bismark leads; and
where he is leading them little incident at
Schleswlg shows. Under the auspices of Prus-
sian officials in the Duchy an address to the
King was gotten up at the town of Schleswig, in
which the Schleswigians are made to express
their loyalty to the King as ''the youngest
children OF the Prussian monarchy" And this
was done lately, ana since the commencement
of the war-a sure sign that in ourestimaton of
PIussian designs we were tolerably correct
we have, however as we already minated,
another reason uponwhich our opinion also rests.
etbink that an united Germany under Prussian
control is a political impossibility. The muir
murlngs OF Russia at the course events are
taking, 'ot which we gave samples in our Wednes-
days issue, indicate plainly, what we have all
along been convinced OF, that neither Russia
nor France, nor England either for that matter,
Will permit the whole of Germany TO be firmly
grasped in the hands of the Prussian mon-
arch, or any other one man. With the power
of over forty millions OF Germans-an indus
trious, intelligent, and, when aroused, warlike
people-wielded by one man, and that man
a Bismark, would change the lace OF Europe,
and reduce nearly all other powers to the
position OF attending vassals. 1t is natural that
the thought OF seeing the grand old Germany OF
the earlier Hohenstaufens revived with power
to give law to Europe, islnspiriJng to an ambi-
tQus mind, but its realization is extremely dan
gerous to the independence and very existence
Of neighboring nations. And this is The only
kind OF German unity that can be wrought out
by the complete success OF Prussia under the
leadership of BismGrk, and il is Just such a kind
OF German unity which all other powers in
Europe will seek to prevent.
Let us take an almost parallel case. A large
portion of the people lnhabl inc Eastern Europe
are of the Sclavonic race. The bulk of their
number are politically called Russians. Some,
nominally in Turkish domlniOns. Some, in Croa-
tia, Sclavonia, Northern Hungary, Galcla, and
Bohemia, are Austrians. And some, IN Posen
and 10 the northeast of it. are Prussians. For
many years the idea of Pan-Slavsm, Just as In
Germany the idea OF Pan-Germansm, was agi-
tated among the Scavonian race, tending to-
wards the establishment Of one great Empire,
under the control of Russia uniting all provin-
ces inhabited by Sclavonians into one grand
country. But every power in Europe opposed
it, and the Crimean was not the first war waged
to prevent even the iaintest approach towards
Pan-Slavism. And none opposed il more
than the Germans Governments as well as
the people, and the latter in the most pas
sionate form through their political literature.
So long as the social and political institutions
of Europe shall approximately remain as
they are, so long as ali the peoples of Europe
shall not have become contederated together
under some form of republican government,
Just so long the absorption of all the Sca
vonlc races by Russia would be as detrimental
to the peace and material prosperity of Europe
as the union OF all Germany in the hands
OF Prussia and which will opposed by all
the other powers Both are, therefore, poll
tical impossibility for the present. 1t is for
this reason, also, that we believe Prussia's
success cannot result in the unity of Germany.
Yet, we wish and hope to see the Germans
united, and under form of government that
will at once contribute to their political re-
generation and advance their material pros
perity and intellectual renown, without en-.
dangering their security or provoking the
Jealousy of their powerful neieh6ors.