Excerpt from The North American Review, Vol. 131

Since I have undertaken to present this great statesman to the American public in the following pages - the man on whom all eyes in Europe are fixed so soon as any change impends in the fortunes of the Continent, or when men"s minds are agitated by some important question - I rejoice to be able to begin by declaring him to be the friend of America. Prince Bismarck is, indeed, an old and warm friend of the United States and of their inhabitants. When he still bore the title of count, and, indeed, when he was simply Herr von Bismarck, he was well-disposed toward this great North American people, a favorable disposition which dated from his youth, and may be said to have been inherent in his nature. In other words, the Chancellor of the German Empire in this trait forms no exception among the German people, and is, in fact, the type of his nation, and the representative of the great majority of Germans who look beyond their borders, and are able to under stand the nature of foreign peoples, and to estimate them according to their worth.

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