THE LETTER TO PRINCE BISMARC K

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 253, 25 April 1888, Page 5

THE LETTER TO PRINCE BISMARC X

Thi papeis biought, b> the K.M.s. Oeeana c ontain the proclamation issued to the people of (.leimaii) b> the Emperor Fiederiek. It i- a- follow* — ''To nn People The Empeior ha.s depal ted his olonous lite In m) inueh loved lathe, whom 1 bewail, and w hom m\ Royal house with me laments in deepen sonow, the faithful I'iu^ian people h;i\e lost then faine-ei owned king, the (Jetman nation tliL touniler ot its nnit\, .mil the ikul\ri>en eir.piie it^ first (ieriuan Empeior. Hiillustnous name will remain inseparably bound up with all the gieatness of the Herman Latheiland. m who.se new ci eat ion the strenuous laboiu ot the Pru.ssian people and pi inces has met with its most splendid reward. While Kmu William iai*ed the lYu.ssian arm\ to the height of itt> pieteut ■vocation b\ the ne\e; tiling care ot a nation's tathei. lie laid sure the toundation for wetu'ies w lueh weie <rained b\ the (.'.erman aims undei his k-adti-hip. and m,: ot which !>pianu the national unir\ He theiebj -eeuied to the unpne a position ol powei Mich a- up tothat tune e\ ei\ tleini.ui heait had \ earned toi but -eaieeh dared to hope for, and that winch he won toi his people in that death hiinjjiiii. 1 tijjjht it it was appointed toi him to &t lengthen and In ne hciallN to mereas-e b\ the "long peacetul toil of his'hibouous years- ot (uneimnent Safeh iestin» on its own .strength (Jei many .stands foi th esteemed in the eouiu d ot nations, and desire.s onl\ to en]o\ m peaeetiil piogie-s that w Inch she ha? won That tlu> is -o w e have to thank the Empuoi William. Hi.s ne\ei wa\eiin>; de\ot;on to duty and his indefatigable aetiwty weie eoiK-eeiated to the welfaie of tlu latheiland siippoited b\ hiichance on the selt-saeiihtim: de\otionof which all the deiman iace.s shaietl. ' All the niiht- and duties wiucn aie con nected with the ciown of m\ hoiisi M\d which for a time, accoidinu to (.od- will. ma) be allotted to m> ink. i am le-olwd fait'htulh to pie>ei\e, lunenow pas-ed to me. Imlmed with the greatness of tlie mission, 1 shall make it m\ w hole endea\ our to continue the tabiic in the >pnit in whah it found, to make Cleiman> a centie ot peace and fo^tci the welfaie of (.euuain in agreement with the Fedeial tloveinment at well as with constitutional omans of the empiie, a> al&oot Pius^.sa. To my taithfnl people who have -tood b) mj hou~e tlnoughout the hi-toiy ot a whole centuiv. m good as in e\il da>& J offer iii\ unbounded confidence, foi I am con\meed that on the basis of the unbreakable bond between -oveieicrn and people, which, independentl} of e\ei> change in the lite of the btate. ioims the unalteiable lnlnntance of the Hou-e ot Hohen/ollem, m\ down ie-tP liencefoiwaul a? -ecuiel\ a.s the de\otion of the counti\ to the (!n\einment of which I am now called, and of which 1 polemnh piomise to be the faithful king both in happines- and in -oiiow. <Jod giant me His ble>»mg; and >tiength to cany out this. ■« oik, to which m) life -hall hencetoith be de\oted.