The Crown then of its own authority published a new Constitution and summoned a new Assembly to discuss and ratify it.

Based on the discipline of the army the King had regained his authority without the loss of a single life.
Bismarck stood for election in this new Assembly, for he could accept the basis on which it had been summoned; he took his seat for the district of the West Havel in which the old city of Brandenburg, the original capital of the Mark, was situated.

He had come forward as an opponent of the Revolution.

"Everyone," he said in his election address, "must support the Government in the course they have taken of combating the Revolution which threatens us all." "No transaction with the Revolution," was the watchword proposed in the manifesto of his party.
He appealed to the electors as one who would direct all his efforts to restore the old bond of confidence between Crown and people.

He kept his promise.