St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-01

of his wife was also the last The mar
rage was celebrated on July IS. 1917.
BiSmarck'S bride, who was nine years
his Junior, possessed lively DISPOSE
ton, quick wit, and superior intelli-
gence, and from the very first proved a
most worthy helpmeet to her husband.
What radical and beneficial change
Blsmarck's marriage worked in his life
Is shown by this letter, which he wrote
from Frankfort to his wife in July, 1851
II cannot understand how man who
reflects upon himself and who neither
knows God nor desires to know Him, /
cannot understand how such a man can
endure life burdened with ennui and
self-cOntempt. L cannot tell how used
to bear it. If | were again obliged to
live as once did, without God, without
you and the children. l really do not
see why [ should cast my life aside like
dirty shirt. Yet this is the life most
of my acquaintance live. When [ 90
through them singly and ask myself
what reason so and SO may have for
living on, for bearing troubles and
veXation. for intriguing and spying
around, l can find no answer Do not
conclude from this scribble that l am in
blank mood. On the contrary. feel as
we do when looking at the yellowing
leaves on bright September day
well and cheerful, but touched with
sadness, with inconsistencies, with a
longing for forest, lake and moorland.
for you and the children. all blended
with the sunset and Beethoven"
II. CREATION OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE.
About the time of his marriage Bis
marcE made his appearance at Berlin
as member of the Prussian diet con-
vened by Frederick William ". This
diet was a feeble body. with the power
only to advise and petition, but it
proved the precursor of German unity
and Prussian kaiser. Bismarck's part
in its proceedings showed him to be a
staunch and unyielding royalist, and,
though he speedily became one of the
valued advisers of the king, he warmly
denounced what he termed the latter's
weak and ill-timed liberalism in the
shape of written constitution. He was
chosen a member of the parliament
convened in 1913 to revise and sanction
this constitution, and in its delibera-
tons resisted all attempts to en-
croach upon the powers of the
crown or reduce the strength of
the army. Already he foresaw that
in a strong monarch and a well-drilled
army lay the future hope of Prussia and
Germany, and when, in April. 1919,
Frederick William refused the sha low
of an imperial crown offered him by the
Frankfort parliament, he found a vigor-
Gus defender in Bismarck. Bismarck
believed that UNION of the northern
German states under Prussia must pre-
cede any permanent union of all the
states, but even the north was still IN
prepared for such union, and it was be-
cause he saw this and knew the tenn
pOrary weakness of the Prussiau army
that he defended the abandonment of
the Erfurt constitution IN the confer
ence at OlmutZ (November, 1850, and
PruSSIa'S acquleScence in the revival of
the old Germanic diet under the preSi-
dency of Austria. CuriOusly enough.
his advocacy of the arrangement made
at OlmutZ caused him of all men to be
commonly regarded as an admirer of
Austria and believer in the old diet,
and it was on these very grounds that
Frederick William, who desired to re-
duce the tension between Vienna and
Berlin, sent him to Frankfort as secre-
tary to the PruSsian member of the
representative assembly of German SOW
ereigns.
AS a member of the Frankfort diet,
Bismarck devoted all his splendid abiIi-
ties to extending and fortifylng the in
tiuence of Prussia in that body; deX-
trously turned to her profit the solution
of the Schleswig- Holstein problem, and
skillfully and thoroughly prepared for
the downfall and overthrow of the
power of the Hapsburgs in Germany.
No member of the diet could compare
with him in ability, and he overmatched
them all. During the Crimean war
Prussia. at the instance or Bismarck,
hold alOOf but NV SO dining chp rataipad
the good will of Russia, soon to prove of
the greatest value to her, and also pre-
vented Austria from interfering with a
reconstruction of the Prussian zollver-
Elm, which gave Prussia the commercial
leadership OF all Germany.
In January. 1851. Bismarck became
Prussian minister at st. Petersburg,
but he was recalled to Berlin in Sep