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March- 19,. 1867 



furt in garrisorrand know the people there through and throupcfr.. 

 In my opinion f the false alarn was quite holesome for them, finalll y f . 

 one will not hurt them 1 now, while on our side nobody will lose his 

 temper now (verbat im: " his ^atieuce" E.D, ) • Prora all I hear frorrr 

 there, the little people are beginning to fit thenselves into the 

 order o^ things, and, once they have licked blood with us, they 

 will becorae p-ood Prussians, as we people f ron the Rheinland have 

 also becone.. To the north araerican people the Solution will' be rauch 

 easier thar with us sone tirae back, because the the kur- branden - 

 burc: type patriotisra with its i nf allibili tyd oes not exist nor the 

 Berlin politics under which we had to suf-^er at tiraes. We were, so 

 to say, the beating boys, whose beating now benefit everybody. 

 We have nade trenendous prorress in Prussia si^oe 18^8 in political 

 develonnent and have now every prosneot to do away with our other- 

 wise so little un^erstandable Junker elenent.. If perhaps the Kol! - 

 nische Zeitlang (Köln newspaper t E.D. ) would get into your hands, you 

 would be satisfied with the debates in the Reichstag. In Prussia we 

 have the assuring feeling, that with inherited stver^h we are pro - 

 tected fron all sides, and fear of a war in the near f uturej I can 

 not go along.. Who would be as crazy to attack an array of 800,000 

 men . which are well lead.. 



As to your political conditions, I adrait frladly, that I can 

 not give a meaningful judreraent . . If right and correct principles 

 are on the side of the Republicans or of that of the Denocrats,, 

 and, in how far the views of the President are raore iraportant than 

 those of the con^ress, I cannot say judge fron here... 



I an glad, that we have our Bi sraarck at the heim', to whon - 

 between us - I have rauch to apolortze. If God keeps that nan for 

 a few more years, then there is no problen with the happy coraple - 

 tion of the unif ication of Gerriany.. 



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