In this he was still supported by Austria; if the Danes did not acquiesce in these very moderate demands, the Germans should enter Schleswig and seize it as a security.

Then he would be able when he wished to free himself from the Treaty of London, for war dissolves all treaties.
The advantage of this plan was that it entirely deprived England of any grounds for interference; Prussia alone was now defending the London Convention; Prussia was preventing the Diet from a breach of treaty; the claim of Denmark was one in regard to which the Danes were absolutely wrong.

Bismarck had therefore on his side Austria, Russia, probably France, and averted the hostility of England.

Against him was German public opinion, the German Diet, and the Prussian Parliament; everyone, that is, whom he neither feared nor regarded.

So long as the King was firm he could look with confidence to the future, even though he did not know what it would bring forth.
With the Parliament indeed nothing was to be done; they, of course, strongly supported Augustenburg.