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The following editorial authored by Bismarck was published by a prominent Prussian newspaper, in the same issue as the full declaration by Austria is printed. 

"Where Austria equivocates, Prussia speaks with conviction. In the interest of safety for the German people, Prussia declares that an attack on any German state in Germany by France or any other power is an attack on Prussia and will be responded to with force. 

1. Prussia will continue to maintain its garrisons in the fortresses of the German Confederation it is charged with administering.
2. Prussia will never allow French soldiers onto German soil for any reason, at any time. 

Prussia also notes with extreme dissatisfaction that Austria cannot even commit to keeping commitments it has already made. With outright disgust, Prussia decries that Austria cannot even commit to defend a member of the Confederation when France is the aggressor, in defiance of both its obligations under the Treaty of Constantinople and as president of the German Confederation. Coupled with the fact that Austria will not deny French troops access to its lands, I can be sure my personal efforts to ensure greater security for all Germans have failed, due in no small part to a Judas in our midst who for fear of the French will not pledge to resist them under any circumstances. 

It again begs the question, therefore, if Austria has not been so beaten, so cowed by the French, both during the time of Napoleon and recently in Italy, that it will not go along with any French demand.

It is therefore the intention of Prussia to move in the Federal Diet that, pending a positive affirmation by Austria that it will defend the fortresses, Austrian garrisons be evicted from all federal fortresses and replaced by Prussian, Bavarian, and Badenese soldiers."