For none of his colleagues could he ever have the same affection he had had for Roon; he it was who had brought him into the Ministry, and had gone through with him all the days of storm and trouble.

"It will be lonely for me," he writes, "in my work; ever more so, the old friends become enemies and one makes no new ones.

As God will." In 1873 he again assumed the Presidency.

The resignation of Roon was followed by a complete breach with the party of the _Kreuz Zeitung_; the more moderate of the Conservatives split off from it and continued to support the Government; the remainder entered on a campaign of factious opposition.
The quarrel was inevitable, for quite apart from the question of religion it would indeed have been impossible to govern Germany according to their principles.

We may, however, regret that the quarrel was not conducted with more amenity.