[Footnote 5: He undertook the chief command with extreme unwillingness and had long advised against the war, the time not having yet arrived, Prussia being still adverse, Germany not as yet restored to her senses, and experience having already proved to him how little he could act as his judgment directed. How often had he not been made use of and then suddenly neglected, been restrained, in the midst of his operations, by secret orders, been permitted to conduct the first or only the second part of a campaign, been placed in a subaltern position when the chief command was rightfully his, or been forced to accept of it when all was irremediably lost. Even on this occasion the first measure advised by him, that of pushing rapidly through Bohemia and Franconia, met with opposition. On the Maine and on the Weser alone was there a hope of inspiring the people with enthusiasm, not in Bavaria, where the hatred of the Austrians was irradicably rooted. It, nevertheless, pleased the military advisers of the emperor at Vienna to order the army to advance slowly through Bavaria.] [Footnote 6: "None of my soldiers accompany me. You will know how to value this mark of confidence."--_Napoleon's Address to the Bavarians. Bölderndorf's Bavarian Campaigns_. "I am alone among you and have not a Frenchman around my person. This is an unparalleled honor paid by me to you."--_Napoleon's Address to the Würtemberg troops_. Arndt wrote at that time: "By idle words and dastard wiles Hath he the mastery gained; He holds our sacred fatherland In slavery enchained. Fear hath rendered truth discreet, And Honor croucheth at his feet. Is this his work? ah no! 'tis _thine!_ This _thou_ alone hast done. For him thy banner waved, for him Thy sword the battle won By thy disputes he gaineth strength, By thy disgrace full honor, And 'neath the German hero's arm His weakness doth he cover: Glittering erewhile in borrowed show, The Gallic cock doth proudly crow."] [Footnote 7: The states of Würtemberg imparted, among other things, the following piece of information to the house of Habsburg: "That the heads of a democratical government should spread principles destructive to order among its neighbors was easily explicable, but that Austria should take advantage of the war to derange the internal mechanism of neighboring states was inexcusable."--_Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 113_. The Bavarian proclamation (_Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 135_) says, "Princes of the blood royal unblushingly subscribed to proclamations placing them on an equality with the men of the Revolution of 1793." The _Moniteur_, Napoleon's Parisian organ, said in August, 1809, after the conclusion of the war, "The mighty hand of Napoleon has snatched Germany from the revolutionary abyss about to engulf her."]