Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-01-25
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BISMARK, FRANCIS JOSEPH AND
GARIBALDI.
By George Alfred 9o1onSend.

BISMARCK.
Three times within three months | sat in
the presence of Count Bismark. A reac-
tionist-in other words an enemy OF every
idea on which an American republlcanlsm rs
based-by sheer boidness he precipitated
the great war of 1866, and made himself
name in spite of his arrogance and unseru-
pulousness. Almost a giant, both IN height
and industry, measuring SIX feet two, huge
and homely, in feature, OF terrible eye,
full of baneful fire, with a creased skin and
an ear big enough for railroad depot,
mouth SO wide and SO cruel that 1t could
bite State in two, and neck into which you
might turn a river-of anything but water;
his powers ofmind are profound, his speech
resolute but with you and me, common
people, who demand achance and an intiu-
ence Count Bismark has no more sympathy
than with so many horses. | did not love
him more than he was bluff and affable no
tvrants are more aimable than his great enc
mics Of the house of Hapsburg, the Imperi-
al family of Austria.
FRANCIS JOSEPH.
Francis Joseph, the Emperor of Austria
| is thirty seven years old, mild faced, grace
full man, come prematdrely to the discretion
! of one who feels that a sceptre, seven hun
/ dred years potential, is barren in his grippe.
/ The weak inheritOr of barbarous fame,
/ and an EmpiIe built upon piunder and
| treaty, the only lessons taught him by re-
verses were 10 pinch his subjects the more,
and kneel the meaner at the foot OF the
Pope Twenty-one dissimilar nations are
bound to his dynasty, the mastie OF his en-
| pire being force or dcspotism. . In this re-
public VIC number thrice as many varieties
of people but freedom makes them peace
fuland true they are so diffuscd upon Oul
soil that they mutually neutrallze and
strengthen each other What quiet should
we have think you, if Ohio we're exclusive
liz made UP of Dutchmen, Pennsylvania o.
Africans, Virginia entirely Fenian Repub
lie, and Indiana of doc,le Camanche or 81
oux Indians, and directing them all a
Washington, a soft spoken German gentle
man, whose claim to their gratitude lay al,
together in the fact that he had subducd
their ancestors? When saw the Empero
review an army corps at Prague-his deli
cate hands and limbs almost woman nj
soft grey breeches and sky blue jacket to-
neat for battle, and in the perpetual repose
of his handsome face, and the quiet mild
ness of his brown eye, school teacher rath
er than King, | felt like a rising storm
| cloud, the scoWi OF tne peopie AaoSsi ~ ~
bright line of troops burned score of diff
ferent dislikes, fusing their nationahties TO
one moment in one moody obedience. The.
shifted arms, but their souls made no con
sent il was a spectacle of the Europea
word ioyalty, perhaps, but not of patriot
ism. found il hard to see the despot /
the half sad face of this young Emperor
yet every hour of his crowned existence ]
by necessity and legacy a crime. With tn
same repose he countersigns the morti
findings of courts martial, which hang
score of volunteers, who will not serv
against their brethren and freedom. WIT
the same sweet youthfulness his sisters &
to the infamy Of marriage without love
! andto the arms Of tyrants, like Maria Lou
sa in her girlhood TO the breast of Napoleon
his true wife tears yet wet ON the XII