Middletown transcript., 1898-08-06

Bismarck opposed any further amnesty
"Ere long," said he, feeling the arm,
to be on top, "the Almighty, who is th
arbiter of battles, will throw dice an,
determine the controversy between tn
brute force of barricades and sover
eighty granted by heaven"
He opposed the Frankfort i1nperia
constitution.
"The Frankfort crown may be very
brilliant, but the gold must be added By
melting into its composition the Prussia1
crown, which oppose"
The democrats, rising again, were put
down in Berlin by volley and a charge
of cavalry. Cried Bismarck:
"The motive principles of theyear 1S4c
were far more social than national. The
envy the poor had of the rich was excited
in proportion to the continued feeding OF
a spirit of license from high quarters,
which destroyed the moral elements of
resistance in the minds of men. lido not
believe that these evils would be averted
by democratic concessions or by pros
poets of German unity. The sound of
the trumpet has lost no charm for the
Prussian ear. Frederick the Great would
have turned not to constitutional union
from Frankfort, but to the most promi-
nent popularity of Prussian nationality
her warlike element"
1t took II years to demonstrate that.
eve do not need" he said, ''to see
the Prussian monarchy melt away in the
filthy ferment of south German immoral
ity. have never yet heard a Prussian
soldier sing, What is the German fa-
therland? The Thirty-eighth German
regiment preserved Us from the Frank
fort parliament. We are Prussians, and
Prussians we desire to remain"
From such sentences came the song:
am Prussian! See my colors cleaning
The black-white standard floats before me free:
For freedoms rights my fathers heart blood
streaming
Such, mark yel mean the black and white to
me!
Shall then prove coward! I'll e'cr be to the
toward!
Though day be dull. though sun line bright
on me,
am a Prussian, will a Prussian be.
Bismarck moved his family to Berlin
about 1850, and there his son was born.
afterward his fathers assistant. Bis
marck became a courtier and went to
the kings estates to hunt
He became a politician as much as
Croker in New York or Quay in Penn
sylvania and was often seen at beer sa-
loon, where once he broke his mug over
a mans head for insulting words about
the royal family. He made a good deal
of fun of Persigny, Napoleon's fellow,
who came to Berlin on q mission. Bis
marck wrote great deal for his own
newspaper-The New Prussian Gazette
and was often found at the Office of
nights. He was having an excursion in
his favorite Pomerania when news came
Of his appointment to Frankfort. 1t was
a great, bold, personal Office. The king
was rather taken aback at Bismarck's
rapid decision to go, and so was Man
teuffel, his minister.
He lighted cigar before the presiding
deputy at Frankfort, rose late, bluffed
uncivil superiors and rode horseback to
the neighboring petty courts. He infu-
enced the press. His title was embassa-
dor. He lived in Prussian merchants
house at Frankfort and received the
visit of the prince of Prussia, subse-
Iuently his warrior king, who was lit
lie disturbed at Bismarck's nonchalance
md youth-but Sc, This prince became
;hick with Bismarck soon and was god
;ather to his son Bill, named for the
prince in 1862.
The envoy rented an elegant villa, had |
/ thousand camellias in the flower beds |
md dispensed fine hospitality. Every |
'uler with state in any degree German
lept a minister at Frankfort. Bismarck
vas social with them all and with artists,
authors and musicians. He also gave |
,arties to the servants to show the Pom |
ranian way. He received many crosses
nd stars to put upon his breast, besides
he life saving medal, and lent money
o needy Prussian travellers who had
.ambled at the baths he was one day to
discipline. After 10 o'clock at night he
ictated his letters for three or four
ours. At o'clock in the morning he
vent riding.
"Each of us, he said, "pretends to be-
eve of his neighbor that he is full of
houghts and plans if he would only
ell, and at the same time we none of us
now an atom more of what is going to
appen to Germany than of next years
now. Nobody, not even the most ma
cious skeptic of a democrat, believes
that quackery and self Importance there
re in this diplomatizing. Most of the let
ers are opened here by postal spies"
To his wife he wrote upon his mis-
pent youth:
"Would it might please God to fill this
essel with his clear and strong wine, in
'hich formerly the champagne of 81
ears foamed uselessly and left nothing
Mt loathing behind. Where now are
rs. Blank and Miss Blank? How many
.e buried with whom I then hirted,
rank and diced? How much is vener-
Die to me now that then ridiculed? I
lnnot understand how a man who con-
ders his own nature, and yet knows
othing of God and will know nothing,
N endure his existence from contempt
i'd wearisomeness. I know not how I
uld formerly support it. Were I to live,
then, without God, without you, with
it my children, should not indeed
low whether I had not better abandcH
e like a dirty shirt.
He urged that the Prussian army be
ade very strong to jump into
ustria, which undervalued Prussia.
1e war between France and Austria oc-
rred. Prussia did not pitch in, and
smarck in 1858 was recalled. He had
come well acquainted with old Meter
ch. His life in Frankfort made him
Q best political reporter in Germany.
Sent at once to st. Petersburg, he was
sited with fierce rheumatisms and was
Irsed by his wife at her native Rein
d, in the Baltic land. She was strong
oking woman, of as much character as
nsef-not handsome, but devoted.
e was fine piano player, and he loved
r music. In 1860 they all went to st.
tersburg, and Bismarck began at once
study the Russian language with
aster He WAS q ach0Olmaster t0 his