. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. furt, Dr. Stahl was presented with an al-bum by his admirers. On its eleventh page, the album (whichwas afterwards printed) contains the following inscription:— Our watchword therefore is not A United State at any price,but, The independence of the Prussian Crown at every price. BlSMARCK-SCHONHAUSEN, Deputy for Brandenburg. Erfurt, 24th April, 1850. This expression, if we are not mistaken, was a quotation from aspeech made by Stahl, at that time in Erfurt. Evidently it camefrom Bismarcks inmost soul. After his return from Erfurt, Bismarck dedicat
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. furt, Dr. Stahl was presented with an al-bum by his admirers. On its eleventh page, the album (whichwas afterwards printed) contains the following inscription:— Our watchword therefore is not A United State at any price,but, The independence of the Prussian Crown at every price. BlSMARCK-SCHONHAUSEN, Deputy for Brandenburg. Erfurt, 24th April, 1850. This expression, if we are not mistaken, was a quotation from aspeech made by Stahl, at that time in Erfurt. Evidently it camefrom Bismarcks inmost soul. After his return from Erfurt, Bismarck dedicated some weeksto his business in Schonhausen, and then travelled into Pome-rania with his family. It is this journey of which such humorousmention is made in the two following letters to his sister: BISMARCK TO FRAU VON ARNIM. Schonhausen, 28th June, 1S50. I write you a solemn letter of congratulation on the occasion(I think) of your twenty-fourth birthday. (I wont tell any bodyof this.) You are now really a major, or, rather, would have been. BISMARCK TO HIS SISTER. 207 so, had you not had themisfortune to belong tothe female sex, whoselimbs, in the eyes of jurists,can never emerge fromminority—not even whenthey are the mothers of thelustiest of Jacks. Whythis apparent injustice is avery wise arrangement Iwill instruct 3^011, when, Ihope some fortnight hence,I have you & la portee dela voix humaine before —who at the pres-ent time is in the arms ofLieutenant Morpheus—will have written to you what is in pros-pect for me. The boy bellowing in a major key, the girl inminor, two singing nurse-girls, wet napkins and milk-bottles, my-self in the character of an affectionate Paterfamilias. I resisted along time, but as all the mothers and aunts were unanimous thatpoor little Molly could only be cured by sea-water and air, Ishould, if I resisted any longer, have my avarice and my pater-nal barbarity paraded before me on the occasion of every coldthe child will catch t
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