BAVARIA AND IRELAND.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")
you allow me to say that I am unable to agree with you in your summary assertion of Mr. MacCarthy's ignorance of the German Constitution in reference to the Bavarian crisis. The Bavarian Diet were perfectly within their rights, according to both Imperial and Bavarian Constitutions, in demanding the dismissal of the Cabinet for pro-Prussian—not pro-Imperial—policy, and for gross and avowed falsification of the electoral circumscriptions of Bavaria.
As for your hypothesis of one of the members of an imperial federation acting a scoundrelly part—murdering all the Catholic clergy, for instance—I am unable to perceive what bearing such a monstrous supposition has on the expediency of Federalism. Under present circumstances, such an atrocity would probably not fail to be resented.
It must be a source of considerable satisfaction to some German journalists to witness the recent volte-face of the Spectator. They will not be so likely, as heretofore, to get fined and imprisoned for reproducing your views of German affairs.—I am, Sir, &c.,
F. HUGH O'DONNELL.
[We never said the Diet were not within their right. They were within it. But so, as member of the Federal Council, was the King.—En. Spectator.]
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