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48 - Worlds Famous Orations - Continental Europe by William Jennings Bryan · Worlds Famous Orations - Continental Europe

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  Speaker 1: Section forty eight of the World's Famous Orations, Volume seven,
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  Speaker 1: Continental Europe. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: please visit librevox dot org. Read by Greg Giordano. The
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  Speaker 1: World's Famous Orations, Volume seven, Continental Europe by William Jennings Bryan,
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  Speaker 1: Section forty eight. Bismarck the Canosa Speech eighteen seventy two.
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  Speaker 1: Born in eighteen fifteen, died in eighteen ninety eight. Entered
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  Speaker 1: Prussian Lantag in eighteen forty seven. Ambassador to the Frankfort
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  Speaker 1: Diet in eighteen fifty one. Ambassador to Russia in eighteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine and to France in eighteen sixty two. Prussian
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister in eighteen sixty two. A leader of the
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  Speaker 1: schelswig Holstein War of eighteen sixty four, in the Austrian
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  Speaker 1: War of eighteen sixty six. Chancellor of the North German
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  Speaker 1: Confederation in eighteen sixty seven and after the war with France,
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  Speaker 1: of the German Empire in eighteen seventy one. Presided at
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  Speaker 1: the Berlin Congress in eighteen seventy eight. Resigned as Chancellor
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  Speaker 1: in eighteen ninety. I am glad that no emotion has
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  Speaker 1: been introduced to counsel this item. Notwithstanding all that has
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  Speaker 1: come and gone, it would be expedient to suspend diplomatic
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  Speaker 1: relations with the Pope. In the first place, the diplomatic
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  Speaker 1: representative whose salary I recommend you to grant is a
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  Speaker 1: public servant whose intercession may every now and then be
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  Speaker 1: indispensable to protect the interest of German subjects. And secondly,
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  Speaker 1: which is a much more important consideration, there is no
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  Speaker 1: foreign sovereign except the Pope, at any rate, as the
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  Speaker 1: law at present stands, who is entitled to exercise a
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  Speaker 1: sort of almost royal prerogative then the territory of this empire.
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  Speaker 1: Such being the case, we are naturally interested in supplying
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  Speaker 1: that spiritual potentate with correct particulars of what is going
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  Speaker 1: on among us, in enabling him to form an exact
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  Speaker 1: and impartial opinion about current events, for he undertakes to
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  Speaker 1: pronounce judgments upon them. We have good reason to believe
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  Speaker 1: that the Pope has hitherto not been very well informed
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  Speaker 1: about certain occurrences in Germany, and we have therefore thought
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  Speaker 1: it right to appoint a minister to his person who,
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  Speaker 1: had he been accepted on account of his high ecclesiastical
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  Speaker 1: rank and long intimacy with the occupant of the Holy See,
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  Speaker 1: would have had rare opportunity of conveying our own version
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  Speaker 1: of things to his ears. This was our sole subject
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  Speaker 1: in this nomination, rejected, I am sorry to say, by
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  Speaker 1: Pious the Ninth, as did the other intentions attributed to
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  Speaker 1: us by those who approve, as well as by the
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  Speaker 1: less lenient critics who censured the appointment. They have never
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  Speaker 1: existed depend upon it in nominating a cardinal as our
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  Speaker 1: representative at Rome. We neither hope to talk the Pope
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  Speaker 1: over to our way of thinking, or did we at
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  Speaker 1: all wish to signify our willingness to repeat a certain
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  Speaker 1: ceremony enacted centuries ago at Kenosa, who were neither confident
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  Speaker 1: enough to expect that our representative, be he who he might,
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  Speaker 1: would succeed in shaking those strong convictions which have induced
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  Speaker 1: His Holiness to adopt his recent attitude toward us in
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  Speaker 1: the world at large. Nor could we, after the new
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  Speaker 1: dogmas promulgated by him, think concluding a concordant with the
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  Speaker 1: possessor of supernatural wisdom and power. In point of fact,
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  Speaker 1: I am sorry to say, after the prerogative lately assumed
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  Speaker 1: by the Pope, that no government which is not prepared
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  Speaker 1: to see the secular power annihilated and placed under spiritual jurisdiction,
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  Speaker 1: will consent to conclude a concordant. And therefore we could
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  Speaker 1: have meant to effect. My sending Cardinal Prince Hohenlohe to
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  Speaker 1: Rome was to let the Pope know the real bearings
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  Speaker 1: of the case and to keep him ah courante of
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  Speaker 1: events going on in this country. For reasons which the
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  Speaker 1: Pope has failed to explain, is declined to give to
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  Speaker 1: our choice. That sanction, which courtesy requires us to ask
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  Speaker 1: for a refusal of this kind, has not often been
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  Speaker 1: recorded in the annals of the plomacy. I have been
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  Speaker 1: nearly ten years at the head of the Foreign Office
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  Speaker 1: and twenty one years in domestic employment, but I do
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  Speaker 1: not remember a single analogous case. I do indeed recollect
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  Speaker 1: that the expediency of recalling an envoy or minister has
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  Speaker 1: been suggested by the power to which the objectionable representative
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  Speaker 1: was accredited. But this has never happened unless he had
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  Speaker 1: given a special cause for dissatisfaction in the discharge of
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  Speaker 1: his official duties, and has hardly ever been proposed otherwise
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  Speaker 1: than by private communication addressed by one sovereign to another.
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  Speaker 1: The present untoward incident is quite different. Cardinal Prince hohenlohe
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  Speaker 1: has been rejected even before leaving Berlin. He has been
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  Speaker 1: rejected by a brief note from a papal minister to
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  Speaker 1: the German Charge d'affaire. Nay, he has been rejected without
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  Speaker 1: any reasons being alleged for such an extreme step. But
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  Speaker 1: however much I may regret this extraordinary step on the
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  Speaker 1: part of the Holy See, I do think we should
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  Speaker 1: not be justified in resenting it by a suspension of
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  Speaker 1: diplomatic intercourse. We owe it to our Catholic fellow subjects
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  Speaker 1: to continue our endeavors to define in a friendly and
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  Speaker 1: pacific way the line which separates the secular from the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual power. At the same time, we consider it our
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  Speaker 1: duty to proceed with the yetmost caution or to spare
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  Speaker 1: the feelings of the religious, and endeavor to convince the
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  Speaker 1: Pope of our temperate and conciliatory views. Therefore, I shall
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  Speaker 1: deem it incumbent upon me to advise His Majesty the
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  Speaker 1: Emperor to select some other representative to the Vatican, who,
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  Speaker 1: though he may not be equally efficacious as the last
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  Speaker 1: nominee would have been, shall still possess the confidence of
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  Speaker 1: both powers sufficiently for the purpose of his office. I
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  Speaker 1: must not, however, conceal that our task has been rendered
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  Speaker 1: very difficult by what has occurred. The Member for the
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  Speaker 1: MAPAN has been somewhat too hard on Cardinal Hohenlohe as
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  Speaker 1: his defining the relations between Pope and cardinal as those
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  Speaker 1: between master and servant. I beg to ask one so
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  Speaker 1: deeply versed in ecclesiastical history, where their cardinals Mazarin and Richelieu,
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  Speaker 1: when prime ministers of France were the employees of the
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  Speaker 1: pope or the advisors and ministers of their respective sovereigns.
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  Speaker 1: I should like to hear from the profound student of
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  Speaker 1: ecclesiastical history, and make no doubt, how Vindhorst is whether
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  Speaker 1: the two cardinals just mentioned in their stiff little TIFFs
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  Speaker 1: but the Correa conducted themselves as representatives of the papal
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  Speaker 1: view or vindicated the royal interests of France. There is
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  Speaker 1: then some difference between a Roman cardinal and a German
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  Speaker 1: adjutant general. Though for the matter of that, if the
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  Speaker 1: Pope should be good enough to appoint an adjutant general
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  Speaker 1: of his German majesty as his nuncio at Berlin. I
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  Speaker 1: for one consul his majesty to approve the appointment and
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  Speaker 1: to ratify so excellent and most acceptable a choice. The
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  Speaker 1: concordant which here Venthurst supposes will settle our difficulties with
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  Speaker 1: the Pope, is, if my views are acted out, not
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  Speaker 1: likely to be concluded. I am not at this moment
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  Speaker 1: at liberty to speak for the federal Consul of the
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  Speaker 1: Empire on the subject under discussion, But I may tell
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  Speaker 1: the preceding speaker that, as far as Prussia is concerned,
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  Speaker 1: the Prussian Cabinet are determined to make measures which shall
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  Speaker 1: henceforth make it impossible for Prussians, who are priests of
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  Speaker 1: the Roman Catholic Church to assert with impunity that they
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  Speaker 1: will be guided by Canon law rather than by Prussian law.
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  Speaker 1: We shall maintain the legislative power against all comers. We
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  Speaker 1: shall bring it home to those not acknowledging our laws,
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  Speaker 1: that by obeying foreign law and preference to our own,
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  Speaker 1: they are placing themselves beyond the pale of Prussian law.
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  Speaker 1: Having said this to her vent Horst. In my capacity
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  Speaker 1: as Prussian Minister, it remains from me to answer his
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  Speaker 1: taunts as to the stability of the Protestant Church as
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  Speaker 1: a Protestant and an evangelical Christian. If he fancies that
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  Speaker 1: the Protestant Church would not survive separation from the state,
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  Speaker 1: all that I can tell him is that, to my
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  Speaker 1: sincere regret, he is not realized the true spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel and of Section forty eight read by Greg Giardando, Newport, Richie, Florida,