Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-02-06

turO thab union, aUu tue ODuntS OF hOlSletn
lost Schleswig for twentythree years (l4l2
l435) but the German Hsnsa having come
to there rescue, King Erich lost not only
Scheswig, but bis three crowns-Denmark
Sweden aud Norway, (1439) e ch's
nephew, Crisioph of Bavaria, succeeded in
Denmark, but died without issue The
Danes offered the vacant throne, FIRST To
Adophus VII, Duke Of Schleswig Hol
stein who declined, aud then to Christian
l, of Oldenburg. who ascended (l449 y
AdoIphus the VIII having died without
issue, 1859, tie SchIeswig Holsteiners
elcIed Klug CHRISTIAN to be their Duke
lie declared in his letters patent Of 1850
that the prelaIes, To- ds, cities aud inhaDit
auts Of SchleSwig Holstein having eecte
hun by their own free will aud oui OF good
will, 10 be their sovereign, aud having
sworn their oath OF allegiance to him,
not as Kiug Of Denmark, but as Duke of
Schieswig Holsteu, the order of succession
| in those two duchIes shall not be altered.
aud belong exclusively to the male line,
whereas iu Denmark, King Juan Otto( GEL
| l0I4)had Introduced the succession Of fe.
| males
Tue capitulatjon upon which Christian ]
took lbe oath which be sigued for himself,
his heirs 4 successors, is in fact the Magma
Cbarta OF the Schleswig HOlsteners aud
lher Bui oi RgnIs. These ave the prin-
clpal rights aud privileges enacted theI eiD.
Sculeswig and Holsteln never ~ be separa
led: the cIizeus not to do auy military
service out of their country; no tax TO be
imposed without the vote Vi the Estates in
Parlinent assembled; no currency 10 be IN.
troduced which Is not received at IL amburg
aud Lubbock; citizens exclusively 10 be
appointed 10 public functions; 10 citizen to
be judged Oy foreign trIbuual- no
Dane, 40 foreigner to be their judge;
he sovereign promises 10 make NO war
! without the consent Of purlia neut 10 meet
every year. Every successor shall cou6rm
these privileges by his OATH; should be ob
ject TO take the oath, the Schleswig Hol-
) eiuers are at liberty to elect any olher
male descendant OF Curistiau /. to be their
duke.
Sluce 1860 Denmark has begun to try to
infringe those privileges; but the people,
who are the Sous of the old Saxous, and
who claim the same forefathers as the Eug
lisb, resisted aud wirhstood all those ell.
| croachments.
Tue first Danish statesman who openly
took The line OF proposing The Incorporation
of SchleSwlg Was Orla Lehmaun. 1885,
HIS party became powerful after the death
vi Klug Frederic VI, Christian VIII wac
led uy hat party TO sign The latter patent
of lS46 (July 81 declvriug the DAulsh (fe.
male) order OF succession to be the rule
forthwith 10 The German Duchies. Thls
was resisted as breach of privilege. The
StalhoIde reslgued the Duke ot August
teuUuig protested. the estates joIued III the
protest, aud brought the question before
the German Diet Hinc aHg xe-War
b oke out IN l84S, and lasted, with a short
interruption after the truce of Malmo, until
July lS49 After Olmu z, Aus ria under
took the settlement OF that long pending
quarrel, aud acted, in fact, as arOire'.--
Ine Austrian and Prussan pleuipotenlia
rles were throughout these negotiations
with DeumaI k The spokeSmen of The Diet,
Peace was made, al Aus s.rian army having
occupied the DuchIes. Austria aud PruS-
sia promised 10 settle the succession ques.
tiou according TO The wishes OF Denmark,
& acknowledge 10y European transaction
the principle of the iuteglty OF the Danish
monarchy, under the condition that Den
mark would fulfil faithfully Der engagement
: Iowa d. the Duches, respect their ancient
privileges, never tly 10 separate them, anC
never INCORPORATE Schleswg luto Deumars
proper.
The German powers kept their word
the treaty was signed in 1852 Did the
Dares keep lheIrsl The DANISH MIuis er OF
Foreigu Affairs NJ. Bluhme, VINO direct
ed Ia 1881 and 1892 all tho-e uegotatioss,
) nus answered that question Tue speech
he made on the l2lu OF November last IN
Senate Of Copenhagen shows that the
treaty of 1852 stands or falls, as far II,
the Eugsh poaers ate Concerned, with The
pl, DE gwen by NJ Buhme III the name OF
Deuma k that Schleswig would never be
I Iueoi POI aied, never separated from Hol-
stein. NJ Bluume shows, moreover, that
even as far as The uou German ppsers are
couce ned, prime pies of The Integrity OF the
Dauish monarchy would fall TO he ground
should The Danes accept Constitution
, which excludes HolsleIn aud Lauenburg,
/ because the Denlsh monarchy, which the
overs who signed the treaty OF lS5z
. wanted to uphold, was composed OF Deu
mark proper, HolsIeiu, ScneSwlg snc
Lauenburs; aud not only OF Denmark
; proper aud Seheswig.
The case stands SIMPLY thus: there Is q
treaty which everybody who signed it want
TO uphold; but that treaty will and mus
remain dead letter, aud cannot be acteo
upou as long as the Danes will not fulfil
= their parts Of The compromise OF 1852, viz
Withdraw he illegal proclamation OF Marcl
1868, und cancel tie constitution, whlc
II the present King has only sgued oy cou
y pulsion aud under the threat of reyolutlo
| "a constitution which would incorporate
s de taetO, Schleswg, aud destroy forever th
Integrity of the Dauish monarchy.
The Germans do not want TO make sn
d conquest; that is all sheer nonsence l
J. is net question between poor little Del
mark and big Germany. The big boy.
the case is Deumark. and The poor lit
Z Hoslein. II in one word, question I
privilege not question OF power
5. An old Dutchman who had joined I'll
e' temperance society was taken sick, an
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