Prince Bismarck and his Policy. 



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the prudent and tenacious energy of the government of 

 Prussia, and with the predominance of the niitional sen- 

 timent over the religious instinct, which is the dis- 

 tinguishing characteristic of Prussian education among 

 cultivated minds, the victory will he on the side of the 

 state. 



Prince Bismarck entertains the most friendly sentiments 

 towards the United States, ''that great commonwealth, 

 which has taught the European people the art of self- 

 government, which side by side wnth most enlightened 

 nations marches in the path of civilization, and which has 

 gained, for the cause of true humanity, through the greatest 

 struggle of modern times, the most splendid triumph for 

 mankind." 



The outbreak of our rebellion gave him food for reflec- 

 tion. He followed our war step by step, sympathizing with 

 the cause of humanity and predicting its final victory. 



His own sentiments and those of the German govern- 

 ment were expressed in the Reichstag the day after the 

 assassination of President Lincoln, when Dr. Loewe, a 

 member of the Reichstag, prefaced appropriate resolutions 

 as follows : 



" Gentlemen : I have ventured to request the president 

 to permit me to make a communication, for which I claim 

 your sympathy. That which I wish to request of you does 

 not, indeed, belong to the immediate field of our labors, 

 but it goes so tar beyond the narrow circle of private life 

 that, in union with a number of our colleagues, I have 

 ventured to call your attention to it. A considerable 

 number of our colleagues feel the need, under the dismay 

 produced by the news of the unhappy death of President 

 Lincoln, to give expression to their views in regard to his 

 fate, and. their sympathy with the nation from which he 

 has been snatched away. Abraham Lincoln has fallen by 

 the hand of an assassin, in the moment of triumph of the 



