The Weekly Minnesotian

In the English House of Commons, Mr. H. Drummond alluded to Prussia as "that faithless country which had ever deserted us in our hour of need, and which, ever since it was a kingdom, had deserted every power that supported it (hear) that had always gone over to the strongest, and taken advantage of the weak in their hour of greatest weakness—a country that had been called a nation of philosophers and schoolmasters, whose religion was a sort of neology, that turned everything sacred into a lie—which had no morality except that of despising the institution of marriage, (a laugh.) so that they had read of a man playing a rubber of whist at Berlin with three ladies, each of whom had once the happiness of being his wife. (Laughter.)"