. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. vered the right manfor the situation as it then existed. CHAPTER IV. CONSEEVATIVE LEADERSHIP. [1849-1851.] The Second Chamber.—The Sword and the Throne.—Acceptance of the FrankfurtProject.—The New Electoral Law.—Bismarcks Speeches.—The King and theStag.—Birth of Herbert von Bismarck.— What does this Broken Glass Cost ?—The Kreuzzeitung Letters.—The Prussian Nobility.—I am Proud to be a Prus-sian Junker!—Close of the Session. Immediately after the publication of the December constitu-tion of 1848, Bismarck was, in the same month, elected in Bran-d
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. vered the right manfor the situation as it then existed. CHAPTER IV. CONSEEVATIVE LEADERSHIP. [1849-1851.] The Second Chamber.—The Sword and the Throne.—Acceptance of the FrankfurtProject.—The New Electoral Law.—Bismarcks Speeches.—The King and theStag.—Birth of Herbert von Bismarck.— What does this Broken Glass Cost ?—The Kreuzzeitung Letters.—The Prussian Nobility.—I am Proud to be a Prus-sian Junker!—Close of the Session. Immediately after the publication of the December constitu-tion of 1848, Bismarck was, in the same month, elected in Bran-denburg the represent-ative of West-Havel-land, as a member ofthe Second Diet was open-ed on the 26th ofFebruary, 1849; andBismarck was amongthe first members torepair to the solemni-ty in the White Sa-loon. How many rem-iniscences were asso-ciated in Bismarcksmind with the WhiteSaloon! How manymore were to arise!Memorials and landmarks still remain ! Without any special object, most probably, Bismarck took the. 192 OPENING OF THE SESSION. same seat in the Assembly he had formerly occupied as represent-ative of the Knights Estate of Jerichow, in the United Diet;and here he held, as it were, as member for the electoral metrop-olis of Brandenburg, a sort of court. It was at least somethingof a court, for not only was he received by his former associates,such as Count Arnim-Boytzenburg, the minister Yon Manteuffel,and many others, but his opponents also addressed him—thosewho had been his opponents, and were to become so these were Auerswald, Vincke, and Grabow; at thattime they all stood with Bismarck on the right, in the terriblecrisis of the country. Bismarck received them with the perfectconfidence of a great-hearted gentleman, in that gracious mannerof which he was so perfect a master, but which he could, at anymoment, for the sake of a joke, frankly and freely abandon, with-out in the least imperilling his position. On that day
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