The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-10-21
Our Duty 20 the Swiss ConfsasratSsn and
Bremen.

Vux O0ty 70 the 0Wleo COnKe0GHoS1on ana
Bremen.
The attention of the people Of this country has
been arrested by the reported blow struck in Swift
| rland, lately, at monarchicsl institutions. We
advised our readers that the inhabitants of Chaux
dss Dnds, town in the Jura Alps, and belonging
to ehsxcsston Of Neafchatel, had assembled to the
nunbsr of tea thousand, and formed q peoples
leasse against the kings alliance. Although this
report is pronounce hoax by LIE Republicans Nts+
cateois of the 23d ult., yet public attention was
nevertheless, attracted to the announcement
II is high time the republican party everywhere
should take ground, offensive and defensive and
every of that sort de in good faith through
out Europe, will meet with response from the
people Of the United States We are told indeed,
that republicanism is considered to be q crime by
European despots and the last accounts are that,
for that crime, they have conspred to destroy the
inofensive free cities of Lubbock, Hamburg, and
Bremen, our own port in the north of Europe.
| Such audacity must be arrested, and if we were
mean enough to act on nothing but the almighty
dollar, there commercial reasons why the port
| of Bremen, whence the irst Am erican ocean steam
line acquired IS start, and to which the stars and
stripes publicly carried, by semi public steam
ers at regul4 intervals, should not be allowed to
be violated BY strangers and enemies. How long
wecoc duos the business of carrying freight and
passengers before, if this outrage is allowed
And who tame, in these republican States as to
| submit to the wrong committed by the strong hand
Of despot;m in crushing the vitality out Of single
republican city The time for cooperation with
republicans in Europe has been accelerated by q
succession Of such deeds. We are openly defed for
being republicans, and the few feeble friends we
have abroad are being trodden under foot Yes
terday it was the small German Ststes-it was Italy
it was the gloriou, land of Kossuth; and to- NOR
row i. will he Bremen, to all intents an American
port, and then Switzerland.
The case Of Bremen is perfectly plain For hun
dreds of years she has been free. She . mem
Der, and is of the three survivors of the power
full Hanseatic cities. She has been decreed to de-
s.ructon, plainly because she is rich and republi
can, and because she is closely connected, by her
direct trade, with We do trust that Congress
will make the long session now before them always
memorable by defending self government elsewhere,
and attacking its aggressors in this gross instance
II they lay their hands on the liberties Of Bremen
The case of Switzerland which will come next,
should be briefly stated. Ste will shortly be in
vsded by the Holy Alliance, in pursuance of their
principles, because she is a republic but the pre-
text will be two-fold. The Alliance will pretend
tndl II perpetual centre OF conspiracy, Wllcn
receives all the rebels Of surrounding States, and
gives them asylum. The tru h, however, is, that
she has given every pie dge of her wish to avoid
offence on that score and that such have been her
measures, that there scarcely hundred refugees
in the cantons.
I But the second pretext is more formidable. It
will be the feudal claim of Prussia to Neufcha.el
The Anticipation of that claim is what has stirred
ha 4 of
Ponds. The king of Prussia, whose title we will dis
prove, dispossessed Of his 6ef of Neufchate by
the movement of ISIS. But he has since publicly
insisted his claim his first letter the subject
is dated 3lst May, and his second 18th July, 1850;
and at Hedelburg, in the fall Of that year, the
Prince of Prussia stated tina. Neufchate would
never be relinqushed by his brother, the king nor
himself, when he came to the throne. The royal
titles are King of Prussia and Prince of Neufchate
and the Prince Of Prussia is the heir presump-
tive to both.
On the American doctrine Of popular sovereignty,
this eudal calm to Neufchatel very preposterous
The people, as we shall see, set it aside and they
had not only the broad natural right to do, but
further right, founded the origin Of the King of
Prussiis pretensions. His ancestor was Prince of
Neufchatel by election Of the peoples Diet and il
is Gle ar that they who set up put down. A few
words will explain the case Of the parties to the
controversy.
In l707, Neufchatel was principality; but the
reignipg family then became extinct by the death
Of the Duchess Of Nemours, the last Of the line Of
its princes. The Diet, the fashion was, met to
elect successor, and from several candidates, chose
the then King Of Prussia. The State was always
sovereign, and so negotiated, and recognized
by the treaties Of 1915. In Napoleon's day, how
ever, be overun Switzerland, and incorporated
Neufchatel into the empire and gave it 10 General
Fertilizer, who was Prince Of Wagrsm and Neuf-
chate His deputy lived at the town Of Neufchatel,
while Berthier enjoyed the revenue in the dissipa-
tions Of Paris. The revenue was hardly hun ired
thousand dollars, and was paid till Napoleon went
to Elba but not After til his fal-since then 1t has
been paid to the King Of Prussia
In 1914, Neufchatel applied for admission into
the Swiss confederation, and was accepted as q
sovereign state-a member Of the federal body
the King Of Prussia and the other parties TO the
Holy Alliance being agreed, and having aequiesced
ever since. The deputy Of the king resided at it,
and the king retained a part Of the places in the
local legislature to his deputies. By the special
act passed for the annexation Of it is pro-
vided.-
Art J. That the sovereign State Of Neufchatel Is |
admitted into the confederation canton This ad-
mission takes place the press condition that all
the engagements contracted by the State Of Neufchs
sbs be faithfully carried out The participation Of the
State in the deliberations the general Affairs Of swtzer
land the ratification and execution Of the resolutions
CT the Diet Federal Congress belong exclusively the
government residing at t-no ratification Interior
sanction being requisite.
This provision was intended TO exclude the |
King Of Prussia from any part in the federal
government, and to exonerate the federal GO
vernment from any recognition Of his autho-
rity. The confederation has always acted in
that spirit, and has lately endorsed a pepu-
lar revolution at Neuichatel After the French
revolution Of lsis, the people Of Neufchatel
resolved to govern themselves, as we shall pre-
sently see, and formed a provisional government.