Bismarck and the foundation of the German empire . y country in Europe during the nextthirty years. It is the most serious bloAv which theprinciple of representative government has yet re-ceived. By the end of August most of the labour wascompleted ; there remained only the arrangement ofpeace with Saxony ; this he left to his subordinatesand retired to Pomerania for the long period of restwhich he so much required. During his absence a motion was brought beforeParliament for conferring a donation on the victoriousgenerals. At the instance of one of his most con-sistent opponents Bismarcks nam
Bismarck and the foundation of the German empire . y country in Europe during the nextthirty years. It is the most serious bloAv which theprinciple of representative government has yet re-ceived. By the end of August most of the labour wascompleted ; there remained only the arrangement ofpeace with Saxony ; this he left to his subordinatesand retired to Pomerania for the long period of restwhich he so much required. During his absence a motion was brought beforeParliament for conferring a donation on the victoriousgenerals. At the instance of one of his most con-sistent opponents Bismarcks name was included inthe list on account of his great services to his coun-try ; a protest was raised by Virchow on the groundthat no Minister while in ofifice should receive a pres-ent, and that of all men Bismarck least deserved one, 290 Bismarck. [1866 but scarcely fifty members could be found to opposethe vote. The donation of 40,000 thalers he usedin purchasing the estate of Varzin, in Pomerania,which was to be his home for the next CHAPTER XII. THE FORMATION OF THE NORTH GERMANCONFEDERATION. 1866-1867. WE have hitherto seen Bismarck in the charac-ter of party leader, Parliamentary debater,a keen and accomplished diplomatist; nowhe comes before us in a new role, that of creativestatesman; he adopts it with the same ease andcomplete mastery with which he had borne himselfin the earlier stages of his career. The Constitutionof the North German Confederation was his work,and it shews the same intellectual resource, the ori-ginality, and practical sense which mark all he a treaty of August 18, 1866, all the NorthGerman States which had survived entered into atreaty with one another and with Prussia; they mu-tually guaranteed each others possessions, engagedto place their forces under the command of theKing of Prussia, and promised to enter into a newfederation ; for this purpose they were to sendenvoys to Berlin who should agree on a Constitu-tion, and they we
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