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GERMAN FREEDOM AND UNITY.
vented anything more than a partial union of the members of the Germanic body were now swept out of the way by an irresistible tide of national sentiment. While the siege of Paris was progressing, commissioners were sent by the southern states to Versailles, the headquarters of King William, to represent to him that they were
PROCLAMATION OF KING WILLIAM AS EMPEROR OF GERMANY, AT VERSAILLES, JANUARY, 1871.
(By Anion von Werner, Prussian Court Painter.)
(By Anion von Werner, Prussian Court Painter.)
ready and anxious to enter the North-German Union. Thus in rapid succession Baden, Bavaria, and Würtemberg were received into the Confederation, the name of which was now changed to that of the German Confederation.
Scarcely was this accomplished, when, upon the suggestion of
