(iKKMANV. 



M of cavalry. Tin- anny of the 



III.- Twelfth Army 



I'armMadt tlu- third di- 



ki>'n>n f tin- Klcvcnth Corps. Tin- total force 



Tin- Hi-Id army is composed aa follows: 



In times of peace, the field array has 804 

 . .f ordnance: in time of war, 1,272. 

 c< inference of plenipotentiaries of the 

 bcloniriii^ to the Xorth-derman Confed- 

 ...id assembled in Berlin in De- 

 .t'i, lor the purpose of drafting a 

 Federal con.-titution, brought its deliberations 

 dose on the 9th of February, 18G7. In 

 innonncing the success of the conference, the 

 itlicial organ of the Prussian Government com- 

 nented upon the readiness of the different 

 to resign a portion of their individual 

 rights in favor of a common organization of 

 Germany, and, in particular, upon the spirit 

 of conciliation shown by Saxony. 



A resolution, passed by the conference on 

 the 18th of January, authorized Prussia to sub- 

 mit to the (lennan Parliament the draft of the 

 constitution, and also to represent the views of 



(the conference to the Parliament. 

 The elections for the North-German Parlia- 

 touk place on 12th of February, and a 

 r..y:d patent, published on the 14th of February, 

 convoked the Parliament to meet at Berlin on 

 the 24th of February. Delegates were chosen 

 .-it the rate of one deputy for every 100,000 in- 

 habitants, and the whole Parliament, therefore, 

 numbered 296 deputies. In Prussia Proper 



ItJie Conservative party was very successful, 

 gaining largely over the Liberal party in the 

 country districts in nearly every province, 

 while most of the large cities chose, as hereto- 

 fore, Liberals. The former kingdom of llan- 

 elected partly liberal adherents of the 

 annexation of Hanover to Prussia, and partly 

 ves c 1 Particularists "), devoted to 

 the interests of the former dynasty. A rnajori- 

 irgregate popular vote was in favor 

 of the Liberal candidate. In the city of Frank- 

 fort the Baron von Rothschild received an 

 almost unanimous vote. Nassau and Hesse- 

 Cassel chose overwhelmingly Liberals, but 

 Schleswig-IIolstein sent seven adherents of the 

 VOL. vu. 24 



of Augustcnburg and two Danes. About 



<>sen as "Catho. 

 in Silesia, Westphalia, and the lii 



and an equal numb in IV-. n 



and the province of 1'ni ia. 'I In- majority of 



puties from the kingdom of S ; , . \oiiy 

 opponents of the Prussian policy, while I 

 from the minor Mates were nearly :. 

 of the National Liberal party, disapproving of 

 the home poHoj ofthe Prussian do\eri:meiit, but 

 supporting the Prussian M-hrim- of the North- 

 derman Confederation. Anion:-- the number 

 elected were Count Bi-mnrci.. 1'rince Fi-< derick 

 Charles (nephew of the Kin^'t, deiierals Yo-el 

 von Falkcnstein, Steinmetz, Moltke, the i 

 of Ratibor and I'jest, the l'i '. a, Ho- 



hen-Salms and Lichnowsky, Count Schwerin, 

 Baron von Vincke, Herren von Unruh, andFor- 

 ckenbeck, President of the Prussian Chamber 

 of Deputies, Herren Simson (President of the 

 deniian Parliament.of 1849), Schulze-Delitzsch, 

 Waldeck, Freytag (the celebrated novelist), 

 Hen- von Bennigsen, President ofthe National 

 Vereiu, and many others known as prominent 

 men in the politics or literature of Germany. 

 On the opening of the Parliament the distribu- 

 tion of parties was as follows (some members 

 belonging to no party, and some districts bein^r 

 still unrepresented) : Conservatives, 68 ; Liberal 

 (or Free) Conservatives, 40 ; National Liberals, 

 79 ; Centre (including most of the members 

 elected as " Catholics ") 27 ; Left, 19; Han- 

 overians and Saxons, 30 ; Poles, 13 ; Danes, 2. 

 The Parliament was opened by the King of 

 Prussia on the 24th of February, by the follow- 

 ing speech : 



Illustrious Nolle* and Honorable Gentlemen of the 

 KortJir German Confederation : It is an elevating 

 moment in which I come among you. Mighty events 

 have brought it about. Great hopes are bound up 

 with it. 1 thank Divine Providence, who has led 

 Germany toward the object desired by her people 

 alone roads we neither chose nor foresaw, for the 

 privilege of giving expression to these hopes, in com- 

 munity with an assembly such as has not surrounded 

 any German prince for centuries. Belying upon this 

 j_'iii(lance, we shall attain that object all the earlier 

 the clearer wo recognize, looking back upon the his- 

 tory of Germany, the causes that have led jis and our 

 forefathers away from it. Formerly powerful, great, 

 and honored, because united and guided by strong 

 h:nuls, the German empire did not sink into dissen- 

 sion and weakness without both its head and its 

 members bcinj, r in fault. Deprived of weight in the 

 councils of Europe, of influence over her own history, 

 Germany became the arena ofthe struggles of foreign 

 powers, for which she rurnished the mood of her 

 children, the battle-fields, and the prizes of combat : 

 but the longing ofthe German people for what it had 

 lost has never ceased, and the history of our time is 

 lillcd with the efforts of Germany and her people to 

 regain the greatness of the past. If these efforts 

 have hitherto not attained their object if they have 

 only increased dissension in place of healing it. be- 

 cause people allowed themselves to be deceived by 

 hop_es or reminiscences as to the value of the present, 

 by ideals as to the importance of facts we recognize 

 therefrom the necessity of seeking the union of the 

 German people in company with facts and of not 

 again sacrificing what is witnin our reach to what we 

 may desire. In this sense the allied QownnMOta, 

 in accordance with former accustomed practice, have 



