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The following was an address given in person by Minister-President von Bismarck to the Federal Diet.

"In beginning my remarks calling for immediate mobilization on Austria, I would like to read the following excerpts from the Constitution of our Confederation.

'Article IX. All members of the Confederation pledge themselves to protect Germany as a whole, as well as every single confederated state, against attack, and mutually guarantee their entire possessions, so far as those are included within the Confederation.  When war is once declared on the part of the Confedera­tion no member shall negotiate separately with the enemy, or conclude an armistice or make peace.
 
Article X. The members of the Confederation reserve to themselves the right of forming alliances of all kinds. They pledge themselves, however, to contract no engage­ment which shall be directed against the safety of the Con-federation or that of any individual state within the union.
 
The members of the Confederation pledge themselves likewise not to make war among themselves upon any pre-tense, or to follow up their contentions with force, but to submit these to the Diet. It shall devolve upon this body to attempt arbitration by means of a commission. Should this fail and a judicial decision become necessary, the same shall be effected through a well-organized court of arbitration, to the decision of which the conflicting parties shall forthwith submit."

Both of these articles have been flagrantly violated by Austria, who has the audacity to call on you, my German brothers in a war of Austrian aggression. Because the Austrians have no reason for war. This Constitution supersedes their alliance with the Ottomans, such that the moment Prussia declared war on the Ottomans, the Austrian alliance with them was voided. Therefore Prussia requests under Article 9 that its German brothers help.

I also would like to point out that as Austria has united with the Muslims, it has begun heretically inventing passages of scripture. Ezekiel 25:17 actually reads, and feel free to follow along: 'And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.' Which bears only passing resemblance to Austria's verse. Coincidence? I doubt it."