The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-16

the remaining German princes come
to an immediate settlement Tor them
selves. Austria and Prussia then,
under French auspices, signed their
separate armistice, and when Bavaria,
snrnriscd and anxious, came to inquire
What was TO become of her, she was
received with a doleful shrug of the
shoulders, and referred to the one
who alone has the power to bind and
to loose. Won der Pfordten went ac-
cordingly to Bismark, and Bismark
was "not at home" to Won der
Pfordten.
Whether this tone of supreme con-
tempt Is merely onsaoered out of a cain-
glorious desire to reUel IN the c0nSci-
BUSINESS of atiireSisted poa0er, or whether
it harbors a design to stretch that
power to the utmost, and to attain
some great object in despite of gods
and men, Bismark seems to delight
in taking up what every one else would
deem an untenable position, and show
ing how easy it is for him to hold it
against all corners. How long ago is
it since this same Baron Won der
Pfordten and Baron Won Beust held
themselves as high and mighty states
men as the Prussian Minister, and
thought they could snub him in the
Frankfort Diet, and thwart him at the
London Conference, and outbid him
with the German peoplel Since, how
ever, he took up that paltry Schsles-
wig Holstein business, what control
could Won Beust, or Won der Pford-
ten, or Mensdorff, or Russell, or
Druyn de Lhuys, all Europe, or Prus-
sia herself, her King, her press. or her
Parliament eUer exercise Ooer this one
man? He was, we must repeat, what we
have long since asserted, the only man
in Germany who knew what he wanted,
who knew what Germany wanted,
and who was sure that what Germany
really wanted the world could not
gainsay His accidental want of
attention to Baron Won der Pfordten
at Nikolsburg was not without de-
sign. He wished the world to under
stand that Prussia was putting Bava-
ria into what is intended to be her
future place But far stronger evil
dence of the tenacity Of Bismark' s
purpose-of the. method of the
mans madness we have in his
present dealings with the city of
Frankfort. Frankfort, it is now in
timated, will have to pay to the utter
most farthing His mind as to that
matter. of the twenty five millions of
forms is as fully made up as on that
of the humiliation of Bavaria, and the
end of all the Frankforters' protests
and circumstances is-that the cash
will have to be forthcoming. y
We have already expressed our
opinion as to this outrageous conduct
of the Prussian Government towards
the city of the Bund. Count Bis
marks resolution on this point seems
to border on madness, but it is all of a
piece with the long career of eccen-
tricity of which the world now begins
to see the drift. Bent on ruling over
Germany, Bismark is aware that, now
| he has rid himself of Austria, he has
only to contend with two adversaries
the jealousy of the minor Courts
and the democracy Of the cities. The
one he humbeS at Munich, the other he
crashes at Frankfort. He is fully
aware who are his foes and who his
friends in the Federal city, and he
| believes that by dealing very severely
secure the suffrage of the latter.
Time must test the wisdom of his
| high handed policy. But, meanwhile,
it is well to bear in mind that Bis
mark is attempting from the Throne
in Germany rerotution Of no less mo-
neent than that Whtch acas achieved IN
France from the Tribune and he
thinks that revolution requires not only
audacity, but all the shoao and ostenta-
tion of ouddcity 1t is only by brav-
ing the world, he seems to believe,
that one can bring the world to his
feet. III
| 1t is not easy to feel unmixed admi-
ration and, still less, to feel cordial
sympathy for a man of Bismark's
temper. But strange instruments are
often required to work out great pur-
poses; and woe to us if we were al
| ways to reject the desirable end be-
cause we feel inclined to quarrel with
the questionable means. Men like
NJ. de Bismark spurn all cooperation +;
they disavow all completely. There
was much that was unsatisfactory in
the state of Germany, and out of
keeping with the age we live in. The
prolongation of the dualism between
Austria and Prussia, the perpetual
self qualification of the Diet, the
pinchbeck glitter of thirty-six sover.
eign crowns, the ranting and raving
of an impotent democracy-the whole
system looked out of date, exploded
doomed. Vague aspirations were
afoat- a yearning after something in
definite, impractical, The Germans
as people, never knew what the.
wished; and to bring the partial
wishes Of the various courts and gov.
ernments, of the cities, of the pro.
vinces, Of the tribes, sects and parties
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