Excerpt from Treitscke's History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2: Translated by Eden Cedar Paul In a sense the Federation was not even the work of the Princes themselves; they accepted it, but the idea was that of Metternich, the powerful Austrian Chancellor, who presided over the Congress and bent it to his will, concerned only to divide the States, so that Austria might rule them, so maintaining in the new Germany the same paramount influence which it had held in the old. Austria was made the head of the Federation, but its position was now merely presidential, and conferred upon it no special powers or prerogatives. The time for a new German Emperor had not yet come, much as the ardent friends of national unity wished for the restoration of the ancient office and title. Poor faithful German nation, wrote Arndt in bitterness of soul, thou art to have no Emperor! Thy Princes wish themselves to play the Emperor. Instead of one lord, thou art to have two dozen (in point of fact, there were over three idozen) who will never be able to agree upon German questions. But that was just what Austria wanted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.