The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-08 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The Duke of Cambridge, as Field-Marshal Command.
in-Chief, held a levee on Saturday afternoon at the Horse
Guards, Upwards of 130 officers were present at the levee,

Address of the HoistEin Teachers to Duke

Frederick.

KIEL, Feb. 3.

The address delivered by the teachers at the
Holstein schools to Duke Frederick has been pub-
lished to-day. It runs as follows :

•
Most illustrious Duke! Most gracious Prince and Lord
We, teachers in Holstein, and representatives of many
parishes of the country, neirg unable to appear here early
yesterday with our other colleagues, yet would not depart
without the joy of haring seen your Highness. We have
come, like the entire people, to which we belong, and which
we serve, by all the sacred feelings implanted in the infant
mind, to deliver our testimony in the historic drama now
being developed in our country,
Your Highness I Never, so far back as the history of the
people's schools in our country extends, has one idea or one
conviction so universally end deeply penetrated to the
hearts of the teachers, forcing them to testify to it as one
man. Now, however, one conviction, one feeling, one wish,
one vow, pulsates in all of us, and we are obliged to speak
of it as with one tongue. We acknowledge before heaven
that we are led by unalterable conviction to regard your
Highness as the legitimate heir to the throne of our country,
as our duke by the grace of God ; we bring our devotion
with the consciousness that your Highness has the same
right to accept it as we have to give. We wish and implore
of the Almighty that the daymay very speedily arrive when
your Highness will be able to take into your own hands the
government of our country, of the undivided and indis-
solubly connected duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, and
we promise to be faithful and devoted to your Highness. as
becomes subjects of our position and office.
Your Highness! We should have utterly misconceived
the meaning of a teacher's calling if, during the years when
our country struggled for her rights, we had desired to con-
vert the quiet chambers of the school into seed-beds of po-
litical tendencies, as has been done in the most outrageous
manner But we had the right, and were
our
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kindred country of Schleswig
to thin
bound by duty, by training and discipline, to prepare the
ground in the minds of growing
byhour our
ena la enemiesve d. in
youth, upon which the
political and moral convictions of the man develop and
ripen under the influence of historical events. And accord-
ing to this we have acted. With all industry we have im-
planted and fostered faith and morality, love of right and
respect for the laws, and especially a love of country,
founded upon knowledge of the history of our land of its
people.
And now, when God himself has struck off the fetters
which caused our country BO much misery and shame—if
now the entire people looks up to heaven with thankful joy
—if now the nation rises heart and hand for your High-
ness's right, which is identical with the country's right—if
now the men and youths of the nation capable of bearing
arms only await the summons of your Highness to go to
battle and death for that right- thoe results have certainly
been produced by the quiet labours of the schools.
Let not your Highness forget that, however dark the
clouds now rising up on our horizon, no power on earth can
extinguish the light of Heaven : taxi we build upon and
trust in the fact alone that it is God himself, not we, who
has created the new day now dawning upon our country.
Therefore we shall continue to labour, so far as lies in our
calling, that the future generation emulates its predecessors
in faith and morality, in fidelity to its country and to its
native ruling house, to the full extent of the character of
genuine Schles-Holsteiners.
And may the Lord, who holds the mighty ones of the
earth in his keeping, enlighten them, and cause them no
longer to prevent your Highness from assuming the govern-
ment of our country.
The constitution secured by your Highness to the coun-
try promises new development to the schools, and that rise
in social position to the teacher which he has so long de-
sired in vain.
The grace and protection of the Almighty reign over our
dear country 1 God bless and guide our beloved Duke
Frederick the Vllth. 1"

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