The New York herald., 1868-05-09

with laughter by the Opposition benches or the
Reichstag, and certainly n N dtn,cult 20 conceive
that Count Bismarck couiu have applied the ..utra-
montane" part Of his argument to wurtemburg,
where the population 10 mainly Protestant and
where ultramontanism Is very feeble indeed. %
A Nuremberg correspondent Of the Augsburg
Augemetne zettung has written q very able reply to
Count Bismarck ana the -Prussan party and have
come to the conclusion that cannot do better than
send you translation OF It, as it throws valu.
able light upon the state Of parties in the Swa-
bian land The writer says :-.since the elec-
tions for the Zoll.Parliament the blows Of the
North German newspaper press and the Berlin cor
respondents Of our own annexation press also
| IaIl fast and thick upon our so-called 'reac-
tionary obduracy,' our so-called aversion TO
all national feeling They do not afiict us.
We are not in the least sensitive to these attacks
Everybody among MS is wen aware that he commits
against the cause Of freedom If ne declines to
join the ranks Of those who pay court to the military
despotism Of the North German Confederation, and
we are likewise all perfectly conscious that the gall
clzng sympathies imputed to ua do not exist. 10
Germans we shall always feel as Germans. Instead
OF being angry, we rather feel some satisfaction ut
perceiving that since our elections Count Bismarck
suddenly once more assumes zeal for liberalism, and
that the kn9wedge that the South Germans can only
be attracted to the North by means OF free instiu
tiODs s again making headway in the North. Espe-
ciay are we proud OF the sudden liberal invecives
against us ilberal sinners, and not less are we
pleased to learn that for once Count Bismarck
has been thoroughly laughed out Of countenance for
aughers as well as for the person laughed Not with
view to defend our land and its good name, but to
counteract the spread OF new illusions concerning us
abroad, propose to-day to treat OF Bismarck liberal
ism and the sOcalled W1rtemburg reaction. Here In
Wlrtemburg indeed, TINS is unnecessary, for every
unprejudiced man here feels and knows perfectly
well that Bisnarcks seven league boots have not yet
enabled the talented Count 70 outstrip in LIBERAL
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claims, by whole generation The principal counts
brought against us are, first, utramontanism;
third a4a
tanism! If Count Bismarck is seriously Of the
opinion that utramontanes who desire Concordat
after the Austrian model control great German cleo
tiOns in Wurtemburg, he falls into tremendous de-
lusion Count Bismarck can very easily inform him
order the last three months issue OF the leading
Catholic periodical In W1rtemburg and he will find
that the German volksotdn Is not opposed TO the
abolition OF the Austrian COncOrdat on the condition
that the Austrian Reichsrath compensates the Church
by bestowing upon 1t free position in the State, and
to Austrian regeneration by means OF political free
DOM And II he wishes to know how, on the other
hand, the handful Of annexationists who are to be
found In Wurtemburg have cOurted the clerical niu
ence let him obtain from the First Wlrtemburg cleo
toral district that ny sheet in which the favor Of the
Catholic clergy for the Prussian candidate solicited
on the ground OF the greater amount Of freedom
jOyed by the Catholic Church in Prussia. Next let
him. IN order % to obtain better knowledge OF his
which the rigid Protestant petists worked for the
annexatiOnist party, and then he win be able to
element which distinguishes the Prussan party In
Wlrtembuig. Were the Wirtemburgers under the
olics would be found among the seventeen deputies
elected somewhat IN the ratio of the Catholic pOpua
tion to the non Catholic ditto e., one-third. re-
peat IT, Onethrd Of the population is Roman CathO-
llc, but only four Catholics are found among the
elected and out OF these four two whose religious
creed is certainly not known to the majority OF our
OeODle. In COmDaCt Roman Catholic uiarictR
PrOte5tants were elected and tremendous
majorities against the Prussan annexationist party
were thrown In clear grit Protestant old Wiirtem-
burg, even where Evangelicalism exerted itself the
most In the cities OF Stuttgart, Heilbronn aud
and yet the pho.prussians were defeated there.
AS it is the prevalent custom now to call every
Catholic ultramOntane. i must, In duty to truth,
INSIST that N our land an ultramontane party in the
proper sense OF the Word, does not exist The ele-
lncnts which gravitate towards Mayence and its
Archbishop. who was formerly Pr,s.an cavalry
officer, and through him griviIate towards Prussia,
are here not to be found. The mass Of our Catnohc
population and clergy do not desire the main
the restoration Of free, self-goyerning Catho-
lie Church free State. The democratic alloy Of
Swabian nature shows Itself also in our clergy,
which, with the aid ofa good scientific education
and good sense, knows its true place In u land OF
thorough religious equality, and in politics often
stands with great energy on the side Of popular in
terests. II knows how to distinguish the husk from
the kernel OF the freedom OF the Catholic Church. 1t
seems 10 be aware that the freedom Of the Catholic
Church in Prussia In the main points, such as the
pOintment Of bishOpfcs, is nothing to boast of and
II assuredy VIII not help TO degrade its Church into
weapon Of the temporal power by the medium OK
influenced Episcopal elections"
The article goes on thus:-"Tne reactionary
government innuencei This was only Ope-
rative In the imaglnations Of the national
liberals. Whoever fancies that the government
caused the uncxampled defeat OF the national
liberals falls into grave error. All the facts winch
have yet to light prove that the government
had In the elections no definite and uniformly upheld
programme ut all. II opposed some ..great Iernanr
candidates aud supported Others. Most OF the elected
not indebted Tor their elections in the least de-
gree to the governmental influence. A ministerial
list OF candidates was drawn up from the irst but II
did not prevail. The leader Of the ministerial party la
the Chamber OF Deputies was defeated, and the whole
ministerial party will consist Of the Two Ministers
Neurath and Mttnacht. The influence OF the present
government upon the mass of the electors generally
is very small. The strongly democratic character OF
the land compelled even the Minister OF Foreign
tables of public houses to open air public
meetings. No unprejudiced observer and connos-
seur OF Wurtembuig affairs will he deceived by the
defamation concerning the power OF ultramontan-
ISM the league of the government with the red re-
publicans, and the like. The elections were con-
trolled by this conviction, as was well stated by
speaker-"ro junction with the present Northern
Confederation nothing presses MS from without,
nothing attracts us from Within" II there Is an all
sence OF attractive power in the Northern Conlede-
ration was the military despotic character OF the
same which revoted us, and II was the high estima-
ton of the great and assured constitutional hber-
ties which we now possess which counseled US not
to let the little sparrow in our hand loose Tor the
sake of the pigeon on the roof And so
long matters are unchanged on the other
side of the Main nothing viii attract US.
However, II there I've any aggression form without
l. e., from Francen that we shall rally around
the national banner. in what then, consists our Iree-
dom which Is now denied In the North Of Germany,
and yet acknowledged 10 exist by the whole OF our
people In spite OF the arguments OF NJ. Bisnarcxs or
gany We Whrtemburgers Judge Of the value of the
state machinery just as little judge Of any other
machinery merely according TO Its look upon paper
We rate liberty not according TO the letter of tue law
and the paragraphs OF the constitution but accord
ing TO their positive practical application. We look
at the machine In operation and Judge accordingly.
And every Whrtenlburger knows what every non
WurtemDurger who reads one Of our Journals, VINO
attends public meeting budget debate IN our
Chamber OF Deputies, or * present during general
election can Immediately ascertatn-namely That
wurtemburg has much liberty VI speech
"a the Northern Confederation, bCt espe
pecially that the Swaban Chamber holds
the purse OF the people for the adv antaRe OF all
social interests absolutely in its power. IL Is the
Swabans pecullarity to criticise each otlicr and
their own and other peoples institutions with less
ceremony than Is paid elsewhere In Germany. Thcy
are never enthusiastically fond Of their government
or MINISTER but they arc free little people, ana
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