The New York herald., 1870-06-09

work IN such a manner that you, as well as
myself will feel satisfaction, g. the close OF TINS
legislative PERIOD In casting retrospective glance
at the results OF your devoted activity. The Con.
federation TO those efforts the most important
realization and among others that OF fixing the rules
OF federal nationality, the right OF domicie, pur.
chase OF real property, and liberty OF trades and
You have regulated by means of laws and treaties
the conditions for acquiring or FORGETTING federal and
State rights Of citizenship suppressng the excep-
ton imposed on individuals belonging TO others,
aboshng the police restrictions marriages. estab-
the State apart from religious distinctions directing
the federal nag, protecting German navigation by
Legations and consuates and regulating the effective
federation; BY the abolition Of the Eide @ dnss s
liberty Of the German rivers, 50 % long desired, has
been realized. The series OF Treaties by which the
postal relations OF the Confederation abroad were
by arrangements concluded with Great Britain and
the United States OF America, and which measures
raj army Is terminated and the navy OF the Confede
uon mas, by means OF the resources which you have
guaranteed, n,rs entered on course q deyeopment
whicn promises TO that branch OF our national
armament rank corresponding to the Legitimate
aspirations OF the German nation. The nnances d
basis. The taxation OF articles OF food, regulated
by the Confederation. has been fixed in o uniform
BY the establishment OF stamp duty on
bills OF exchange q federal tax has been
created In the interest Of the commercial free
which the constitution requires has been hastened
on In manner which, four years back, we hardly
sistance and the treaties based on that measure
concluded with Baden and Hesse, have, by antlci-
pating your decisions relative to the new
common law o. procedure, the examination OF
which will soon be finished obviated the dinl-
cultles opposed by the frontes OF the States to
restrictions on the interest money, OF impris0n-
ment for debt and OF attachments on wages, has in
trodaSsd some very important provisISns into
merclal code ana the legislation concern.
ing bills Of exchange. were voted by you as
the one on companies in shares and that on copy.
right have been placed under the safeguard OF the
on 0G @ rank S n this soss o s oRss
measures belongs to the law which was adopted
Yesterday by you and the Federal Council Phe
penal code belongs to that tOtaty OF enactments by
which the great object OF German judicial unity "a
advanced In remarkable manner; 1t could only
some sacrifices OF opinion being made by you
and the co-federats governments for the
srst the naSgs me
productive, that the questions treated and the solu
tions they were TO receive more profoundly affected
votedness In making these SACRIFICES; you have thus
met the wishes formed by the various governments.
on Sss the II nsoe
we perceive the striking results Of the common &C.
tivity Will be shared throughout the German country
have been achieved in 80 short tine by means OF
free accord between the federal governments and
the representatives OF the nation render the whole
people jointly interested In the accomplishment OF
the hopes attached to the creation OF the C0nfed-
eracy. All these facts prove that the German mind,
without renounclg the free development In which
Its strength reposes knows how to find union in the
common love of all for the Farherland. The re-
suits obtained BY confidence and lncessant labor
in the domain or prosperity and progress of order
and liberty In our own land also give to foreigners
the cerude that the Northern Confederation, in the
ia
tuOnal national union with the States of the South
displays tho German strength, not menace Others
but to SOitdlv establish the general peace. That at
tude procures the confidence and consideration Of
foreign peoples and governments.