The New York herald., 1874-10-27
HERALD TUESDAY l874-oUApRUPIE SHEET


peror never received truthful account of the
affair as it really took place Bismarck, it ap-
pears, is afraid Of Arnim. knowing full well,
ss he does, that he has done him q grievous
wrong, and because Arnim is the only man
who has not only the courage and capacity,
but also the means to become q really danger
GUS foe. The key to the present situation is
simply that Bismarck tries to annihilate his
enemy forever. 1t LIS In exact keeping with
Bismarck's character to attempt thus to ruin
Arnim and to rob him of his reputation,
position, civil rights, fortune and health. If
he does not succeed in this he fears that his
own position will be jeopardized.
MIGHT BEFORE R1aHT.
Bismarck attacked Arnim at his most vuL
nerable point merely through abuse Of
power, legal justification of which may always
be found, and was in this instance furnished
by the Berlin City Tribunal, which has thus
become an unconscious accomplice Of Bis
marck. It has been repeatedly asked why
Arnim did not try to prevent such open
war by simply taking copies Of the docu-
ments in question and restoring the originals
under protest to the Foreign Office The
case, from q legal point of view. is just
this-that Arnim rightfully considered these
papers as his private property, and never
thinking for a moment that the attempt would
ever be made to compel their restoration by
criminal prosecution, made no copies Of them,
nor had he a right to make any, as his
ownership of the documents might have been
denied in the civil suit
OUTRAGEOUS TREATMENT OF ARNIM
Added to this legal grievance is one of
actual occurrence-namely, the shocking man.
ner in which Herr Bulow preferred the demand
for the documents in question. Btlow is said
to have subsequently expressed his astonish-
ment at Arnim's persistent REFUSAL as he could
have easily taken copies and then surrendered
the papers. However, Bilow ought to express
no astonishment at Arnim's refusal, as he had
made the demand for the delivery of the pa
pers in a manner which stamped it not only as
judicial abnor1nity, but also as specimen Of
that brutality with which he had become &C
customed to treat high and obnoxious officials.
IMpossrBrLrrY OF A sURRENDER.
Bnlow's letter rendered the surrender Of the
documents positively impossible, unless Arnim
wished TO plead guilty to the commission of 9
felony. Arnim had no cause to abandon his
right to property Of his simply because the
Foreign Office desired to obtain it by means
of criminal prosecution. He was deprived
of every decent chance of yielding without
humiliating himself. Bulow's letter threat
ened him with criminal prosecution for
felony.
TILE R1GHT VIEW.
Arnim could easily have been witness to
the falsity of the charges on which this threat
was based, and every impartial spectator must
admit that this attempt to give the prosecu-
ton any but its real political and personal
ooloring is void of all justice. Only knowl-
edge of all the political motives Of Arnim's
enemies, and mora especially of those of
Prince Bismarck, who will stand behind the
Attorney General and influence the tribunal,
could enable one to form correct opinion of
the case Of Count Arnim.'