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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 11: (search)
ts of the state and my own views turn in another direction. Frederic to Maltzan, 22 Jan., 1779. Peace is as dear and precious to me as to the ministry of Versailles; but as nothing less is at stake than the liberty and constitutions of all the Germanic body, I, one of their principal bulwarks, should fail in duty as an elector if I were willing to acquiesce in the despotism of Austria. Rather than be guilty of such weakness, I should prefer eternal war to peace. Frederic to Goltz, 9 Feb., 1778. Now is the mo- Chap. XI.} 1778. ment, he warned his minister, to exert all your power: the deaf must hear; the blind see; the lethargic wake up. Ibid., 11 Feb., 1778. Last year, he continued, I saw that France could not avoid war with England; I offer my vows for the success of the French; Ibid., 27 Feb., 1778. and he added in his own hand: The Austrians wish openly to subjugate the empire, abolish the constitutions, tyrannize the liberty of voices, and establish their own absolut