. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. survey their history as a great whole, I believethere exist no reasons for such attacks as we hear in this place,and I do not think it necessary to despair of discovering withinthis class worthy members of a Prussian peerage. To the continually reiterated taunt concerning Junkerdom andthe Junker party, he fearlessly replied :— I AM PROUD TO BE A PRUSSIAN JUNKER! 211 I am proud to be a Prussian Junker, and feel honored by theappellation. Whigs and Tories were terms which once also hada very mean signification ; and be assured, gentlemen, that wesh
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. survey their history as a great whole, I believethere exist no reasons for such attacks as we hear in this place,and I do not think it necessary to despair of discovering withinthis class worthy members of a Prussian peerage. To the continually reiterated taunt concerning Junkerdom andthe Junker party, he fearlessly replied :— I AM PROUD TO BE A PRUSSIAN JUNKER! 211 I am proud to be a Prussian Junker, and feel honored by theappellation. Whigs and Tories were terms which once also hada very mean signification ; and be assured, gentlemen, that weshall on our part bring Junkerdorn to be regarded with honorand respect. We here take leave of Bismarcks activity as a conservativeparty leader in the Second Chamber. This volcanic earth in theHardenberg Palace, on the Donhoffsplatz, he only re-entered elev-en years afterwards as a Minister, although in the winter of1851-2 he several times came from Frankfurt to Berlin, and alsoappeared in the Chamber. Book tl)t Jourtl). ON THE VOYAGE OF ON THE VOYAGE OF LIFE. CHAPTER I. ON THE VOYAGE OF LIFE. [1851-1859.] Ambassador.—Interview with the King.— von Rochow.—Anecdotes.—Frankfurt.—Reception of the Prince of Prussia.—Society at Frankfurt.—TheKings Birthday.—Position of Prussia.—Correspondence. T some resting-placeon a journey intoPomerania whichBismarck under-took in the earlyspring of 1851, heheard from severalpersons of his ap-pointment as Am-bassador to the Dietin Frankfurt-on-theMaine, where theDiet was just thenre-assembling. Thatthis was not true heknew, but that hewas very likely intended for the post he considered far from im-possible. He thought deeply over the matter; the reflectionwas a novel one, but by no means unwelcome; to him a parlia-mentary career had become the less pleasing the longer he hadfollowed it—he was not vain enough for that: his manly self-confidence, however, was considerable, and perhaps he thoughtof his mother
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