Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-27
Farewell. Denmark.

Sing the requiem! Peace to its ashes
Poor little Denmark is practically dead,
and henceforth can be classed only among
the smaller fry of the earth. 1t went i'm
pluckily but comes out essentially plucked.
The preliminary treaty of peace has been
published both in Vienna and Berlin. King
Christian cedes Schleswig- -Holstein, and
Lauenburg to the Emperor of Austria and
King OF Prussia, and agrees to recognize
any arrangements which they may make
regarding those duchies. Denmark and
the Duchies are severally to bear their sep
arate debts; and the joint debt is to be di-
vided between them in the proportion to
their respective populations. Jutland is to
be occupied by the allies until the conclu-
sion OF the detinitive treaty of peace, and
the corps of occupation is to be maintained
by the Jutlanders; but no more military
contributions are to be levied. As the
London Spectator says, the "Denmark"
which remains is politically only corpse,
bearing still the old semblance of manhood,
but utterly powerless, either for good or
evil. 1t is left a State half as large as Scot
land-bleak, uncultivated, with popula-
tion of less than million and half of
souls, burdened with a huge debt and dis
tracted by internal dissensions, for Jutland
and Zealand are thoroughly impregnated
with the Germanic element. Well may the
London Times eXclaim that since the days
when the first Napoleon scattered armies
and dated proclamations from fallen capi-
tails no more merciless conditions have been
imposed OH conquered enemy than those
contained in the preliminaries of peace be-
tween the German Powers and Denmark,
and in the arrangements with respect to
the armistice which is to be observed till
the conclusion of detinitive treaty. Den
mark yields everything.
And this is the fate of one of the bravest-
most heroic nations that ever showed prow-
ess on earth or SEA. This is the melancholy
end of those savage old Norsemen who
feared nothing human and recognized moth
ing divine. They have gone down before
Won Bismarck and his hordes as lambs be-
fore Lion. Unforgiving, audacious, I'M
scrupulous, he has made war like savage,
and with savage instincts has scalped his
conquered enemy, taking from her the best
OF her possessions and shOwingno clemency
in the settlements he demands. The Fa-
therland has a aremOrseless son in Bismarck.
Now it is for the German Bund to beware of
him as dangerous subject. He mocked at
France, England, and deluded Russia, and
snapped his fingers In the face of Austria.
Determined in his purpose and rendered se-
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pean powers, he has gobbled up Denmark at
"a mouthful. Her kingdom diminished, he
will turn to '.fresh fields and pastures new"
Judging by the dangerous diplomatic tai
ent he has recently developed and by the
rapacity with which he characterized the
Schleswig- -Holstein war, Bismarck is man
before whom no diplomat in Europe can
stand. Louis Napoleon ages, England is
cowardly, Russia is indifferent; no oppo-
nent seems to interpose any obstacle to his
ambition save the Bund, and some his ac-
complies in the ruin of the Danes who are
inclined to quarrel over the spoils. Wheth-
er he will show much Difference to either
remains to be developed.
Their esult of this the almost practical
extinction of the Kingdom of Denmark,
while 1t shows the utter heartlessness of the
German Powers, exhibits England in no en-
viable light. She is justly taunted with
cowardice and dissimulation. She misled
the Danes by hints of aid-abandoned them
in the war and in the conference, and now
has the unutterable meanness to blame them
for not yielding sooner. If there can be
more thoroughly English than
this, it would be refreshing to see it.. Per-
that she has not friend on earth
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in friendly companionship with her.
In view of the humiliations which have
afflicted his country it is not strange that
King Christian is saddened and subdued.
Nothing, indeed, could be less in accordance
with the defiant tone used few weeks since
by the Danish Enjoys at the Conference
than the language he has just addressed to
The Rigsdag. He confesses that the courage
Of his fleets and armies has been in vain, and
hat, though the people have made every
sacrifice for the salvation of the country,
yet resistance to superior force has been
for, as Europe has left the
Danes without assistance, 1--WE have seen
ourselves forced to yield to numbers, and to
to terminate war the continuance
If which, under existing circumstances,
would only occasion our beloved people and
country greater losses and misfortunes,
Without holding out the prospect of any
Improvement" The confession is a touch
ng one. Only paper like the London
Times could have the heart to mock at it,
Boston Post.