*' Soldiers! lam content with you; you have covered your eagles with immortal glory. ' An army of one hun- dred thousand men, commanded by the Emperors of Rus- sia and Austria, have been, in less than four hours, cut to pieces and dispersed—forty stand of colors—the stand- ards of the imperial guard of Russia—one hundred and twenty pieces of cannon, twenty Generals, and more than thirty thousand prisoners, are the results of this day, for ever celebrated. Henceforth you have no longer any rivals to fear." With what delight would he have drank in the glorious story, related to the aiTny on entering Berlin : " Soldiers—the forests, the defiles of Franconia, the Saale and the Elbe, which your fathers had not tra- versed in seven years, you have traversed in seven days, and in this interval you have fought four fights, and one pitched battle. You have sent the renown of your vic- tories before you to Potsdam and to Berhn. You have made sixty thousand prisoners, taken sixty -five standards, six hundred pieces of cannon, three fortresses, and more than twenty Generals. And yet nearly one half of you regret * Cong. Globe, January 5th, 1848.
not having fired a shot. All the provinces of the Prussian monarchy, as far as the banks of the Oder, will be in your power." At Friedland, his soul would have been " satis- fied as with fat things," as the address of the hero fell upon his ears. *• Soldiers—in ten days you have taken one hundred and twenty piecee of cannon, seven standards, killed, wounded, or captured, sixty thousand Russian pri- soners ; taken from the enemy all its hospitals, all its magazines, all its ambulances, the fortress of Konigsburg, the three hundred vessels that were in the port laden with every species of munitions, and one hundred and sixty thousand muskets that England had sent to arm our enemies."
The vast amount of glory and misery detailed in these addresses, affords a significant comment on " the instincts of nature," and the pacific doctrines of " modem philan- thropists."