|Cannon.

| |North |377,000 |48,000 |1284 | |South |97,000 |10,000 |288 | +-------------------------------+------------+----------+----------+ but the support of the latter might be hoped for.

Lebrun again urged the desirability of a campaign in the autumn, but the Archduke repeated that it must begin in the spring.

In that condition, as in his earlier statement that France must declare war first, while her allies prepared for war, we may discern a deep-rooted distrust of Napoleon III.
On June 14 the Archduke introduced Lebrun to the Emperor Francis Joseph, who informed him that he wanted peace; but, he added, "if I make war, I must be forced to it." In case of war Prussia might exploit the national German sentiment existing in South Germany and Austria.

He concluded with these words, "But if the Emperor Napoleon, compelled to accept or to declare war, came with his armies into South Germany, not as an enemy but as a liberator, I should be forced on my side to declare that I [would] make common cause with him.