Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-12-30
From the Foreign Correspondence of the Boston
Commonwealth

tioat-Louis Nap01eoa's Policy.
from the Foreign Correspondence of the Boston
Commonwealth
The Schleswig and HoIstein question of
which | have written YOU before is suddenly
brought, by the death of the King of Den
mark to the verge of its crisis. To the old
dispute between Denmark and the German
Diet for the crown-right in these Duchies, is
now added the dispute about the succession
The old question is very complicated, and,
your readers might not thank me for giving
its history in full, / viii only say that the
Germansf claim Schleswig as a part of their
Fatherland on the strength of an old docu-
ment dating some five hundred years back
and the Danes oppose to this the recognized
policy Of both countries for those five centu-
rIes during which no one dreamed that Den
mark did not own Schleswig. The question
very much resembles the secession question
| in the United States. Its most formidable
| aspect to the Danes is the number of Copper
| heads in Schleswig and Holstein. And the
| object of the Observation-Disclosures resem-
| bles that of our confederates in that if they
| should succeed it would take from Schleswig
| the liberal institutions which resemble those
| of Sweden and England, and substitute for
them the hard absolutism of Prussia and
Austria. The chief Importance of the pres
/ ent situation is that if the Warwick
| Russell has been vainly striving to stave
| off by proposals of arbitraton,-shOuld
| come, it will imply union of England with
! Sweden and Denmark against Prussia, Austria
! and other powers, and attempt on the part
| of Napoleon to come his Mexican trick over
| the Rhenish provinces, whilst their natural
protectors are engaged elsewhere. The po-
| sition of England in the whole affair is ex-
| ceedingly complicated We read to-day for
| instance, in the Court Journal of the Princess
| of Wales and the Crown-Princess of Prussia
| (the Prince of Wales sister, driving out in
| Windsor Park together; yet when the war,
| whose notes of preparation fill the ears OF
| Europe, comes, the first blow will be that of
| Prussia against the King of Denmark
the Princess of Wales father. At the same
| time Ernest, Duke of SaXe-Coburg, the first
| to proclaim Augustenburg Duke of the Ouch
| les, in opposition to Christian (Alexandra's
father is the own brother of the late Prince
| Albert. Thus the first effect of the war viii
be to divide the house of Victoria and array
| its members the one against the other. But
| England has chosen already. She will take
| her place by the side of Denmark and will
fight to any extent rather than have that
country cut in twain by the German Bund.-
But it is a war which the Western Powers
hate for it will tie up the hands of every
monarch in Europe, and furnish a peculiarly
fine opportunity for the uprising of the demo
cratic elements of the old world.
The tidings will reach you by the mail that
bears this letter that the Polish insurrection
begins to give signs of extending to that por-
ton of ancient Poland which fell to the share
| of Austria at the time of the PARTITION
| namely GdljciG. There has already been one
panic in the Vienna Court about it. and there
will be more. Let me now tell you the secret
| of this whole matter. 1t has long been a
| mystery why the Polish insurgents had never
| fred a gun in Galicia. The reason was that
Napoleon had promised to help Poland, and
his only request was that Austrian Poland
should not be attacked Entirely for this
reason the Poles refrained from rising in Ga
| Hcia But why did not Napoleon wish to
have the instruction take that direction
First, because he wished Austria to be in con-
dition to ally herself with him under certain
| contingencies. Secondly, he knew that the
n instruction in Galica would nfallib1y be fol-
| lowed by one in Hungary and that this would
be signal for an attack from beneath by
Il Venetia-which would fire train underneath
= Eevery French regiment in Italy, train, too,
whose other end he has some reason TO fear
: reaches to Paris The first of his motives
has ceased to exist,-Napoleon no longer
cares for any help that Austria can give,-
will he risk the other? Much depends
mon his decision, and he must now decide
, quickly. Galicia viii soon be threatened !;
f it rises the deluge comes. Austria is
e free States takes her present place on the
nap. France crumbles next. Napoleon can
/, avert this only by helping Poland In fact,
! the Poles will presently be compelled either
t5succumb to Russia or else to deal with Ma
, nieon exactly as Cavour did. Cavour sent
; tosParis this message, ''Either Louis Napoleon
! beins me to free Italy, or l shall conjure up
to nv assistance throughout Europe the de-
mon he most fears,-Demoeracy. So Ma
noJeon's knees knocked together, and ne
be,ed one state TO gain partia independ
ent. for fear that more would get it if he
did not The Poles have only refrained from
threatening him in the same way by reason of
the humber Of copperheads (the Czartoryski
set In their ranks who have hitherto con-
trolsd their movements; but now the winter
of their discomfort has come, and this, the
only alternative of subjugation, must be sez-
ed. These facts viii interpret for you the