"By idle words and dastard wiles Hath he the mastery gained; He holds our sacred fatherland In slavery enchained. Fear hath rendered truth discreet, And Honor croucheth at his feet.
Is this his work? ah no! 'tis _thine!_ This _thou_ alone hast done. For him thy banner waved, for him Thy sword the battle won
By thy disputes he gaineth strength, By thy disgrace full honor, And 'neath the German hero's arm His weakness doth he cover: Glittering erewhile in borrowed show, The Gallic cock doth proudly crow."]
[Footnote 7: The states of Würtemberg imparted, among other things, the following piece of information to the house of Habsburg: "That the heads of a democratical government should spread principles destructive to order among its neighbors was easily explicable, but that Austria should take advantage of the war to derange the internal mechanism of neighboring states was inexcusable."--_Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 113_. The Bavarian proclamation (_Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 135_) says, "Princes of the blood royal unblushingly subscribed to proclamations placing them on an equality with the men of the Revolution of 1793." The _Moniteur_, Napoleon's Parisian organ, said in August, 1809, after the conclusion of the war, "The mighty hand of Napoleon has snatched Germany from the revolutionary abyss about to engulf her."]
[Footnote 8: Posselt's Political Annals at that time contained an essay, in which the attempt made by the Austrian cabinet to call the Germans to arms was designated as a "crime" against the sovereigns "among whom Germany was at that period partitioned, and in whose hearing it was both foolish and dangerous to speak of Germany." Derision has seldom been carried to such a pitch.]
[Footnote 9: The finest feat of arms was that performed by the Austrian infantry, who repulsed twelve French regiments of cuirassiers. This picked body of cavalry was mounted on the best and strongest horses of Holstein and Mecklenburg (for Napoleon overcame Germany principally by means of Germany), and bore an extremely imposing appearance. The Austrian infantry coolly stood their charge and allowed them to come close upon them before firing a shot, when, taking deliberate aim at the horses, they and their riders were rolled in confused heaps on the ground. Three thousand cuirasses were picked up by the victors after the battle.]