[Footnote 27: a gathering of, it is said, 30,000 at the Castle of Hambach in the Palatinate; where speeches were made in favor of Germany, unity, and the Republic.] [Footnote 28: An attempt made by a handful of students and peasants to blow up the Federal Diet in revenge for some Press regulations passed by it. They stormed the guard house, but were suppressed.] [Footnote 29: See the "Proceedings during my stay at Aachen" in _Bismarck-Jahrbuch III.,_ and the "Samples of Examination for the Referendariat" in _Bismarck-Jahrbuch II._] [Footnote 30: Say "red tape."] [Footnote 31: _Polstiche Reden_ (Cotta's edition), i. 9.] [Footnote 32: See _Bismarck-Jahrbuch_, iii. 86.] [Footnote 33: Cf. Bismarck's letter to Gerlach of October 7, 1855.] [Footnote 34: Cf. Bismarck's utterance in the Imperial Diet on January 8, 1885. _Politische Reden_, x. 373.] [Footnote 35: Gramont, _La France et la Prusse avant la guerre_. Paris, 1872, p. 21.] [Footnote 36: The telegram handed in at Ems on July 13, 1870, at 3.50 p. m. and received in Berlin at 6.9, ran as deciphered: "His Majesty writes to me: "Count Benedetti spoke to me on the promenade, in order to demand from me, finally in a very importunate manner, that I should authorize him to telegraph at once that I bound myself for all future time never again to give my consent if the Hohenzollerns should renew their candidature. I refused at last somewhat sternly, as it is neither right nor possible to undertake engagements of this kind _à tout jamais_. Naturally I told him that I had as yet received no news, and as he was earlier informed about Paris and Madrid than myself, he could clearly see that my government once more had no hand in the matter." His Majesty has since received a letter from the Prince. His Majesty, having told Count Benedetti that he was awaiting news from the Prince, has decided, with reference to the above demand, upon the representation of Count Eulenburg and myself, not to receive Count Benedetti again, but only to let him be informed through an aide-de-camp: That his Majesty had now received from the Prince confirmation of the news which Benedetti had already received from Paris, and had nothing further to say to the ambassador. His Majesty leaves it to your Excellency whether Benedetti's fresh demand and its rejection should not be at once communicated both to our ambassadors and to the press."] [Footnote 37: Play on the word _gesprengt_.] * * * * * BISMARCK AS AN ORATOR By EDMUND VON MACH, PH.D.