The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-23

ENGLAND. FRANCE AND THE NEW EU-
RoPEAN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES military en-
thusiasm III Europe is rapidly spreading.
| It's center is, al present, in Schleswig- II Oh
| stein, but thence it communicates itself to
| Italy, where Garlbaldi again appears upon
the scene; to hungary, where Central
Revolutionary Committee has been form
ed; TO Turkey, where the Government be-
lieves il sees signs Of "A general rising Of the
Christians. A teyerish excitement has
seized the European mind, and every one
believes Europe to stand at present on the
eve OF u general and terrible crisis.
The progress of the Scbleswig- HOlstein
question shows how closely democracy and
nationality are allied. Austria and Prussia
have combined their utmost efforts 10 pre-
vent the recognition Of the Prince Of Au-
gustenburg and to come TO peaceful un-
derstanding with the King Of Denmark
But their influence and power seem to have
gone. The unanimity and the enthusiasm
OF the people are such as to make an i'm
preston even in Vienna and Berlin. At
the Federal Diet, the commanding influ-
ence Of the two great Powers seems like
wise to be at an end. In the preliminary
votes, taken on the Schleswig- II olstein
question in the Federal Diet, Austria and
Prussia are known to have been in mi
nOrity, and all their threats prove power
less. Bavaria, Saxony and Wurtemberg
have openly made common cause with the
nation, and the two great Powers cannot
rely upon the support Of any German Gov
eminent, save those Of Luxembourg (Hol-
land) and perhaps Mecklenburg.
1t was the design Of Austria and Prussia
to prevent, during the occupation of Hols-
tein by the Federal troops, any manifesto
ton in favor of the Prince of Augusten-
burg until . final settlement Of the success
sion question. The Federal Commissions
in HOlstein actually issued q proclamation
TO this effect. But all this was of no avail.
AS the Danes, before the advance of the
Federal troops, withdrew from Holstein,
the people in every town spontaneously
tenburg Duke Of Schleswig Holstein. The
Saxon and Hanoverian troops, to which
the Federal Execution had been intrusted,
did not only not suppress these manifesto
tons, but openly sympathiZed with them.
The Prince of AugustenbIrg arrived in the
Duchy of Holstein, issued a proclamation
announcing his ascension to the throne. and
expressed the hope that the Federal Exc
cution, having no longer any object, would
soon cease and that the Federal Diet would
recognize and protect lis rights.
The greatest difficulty which the people
of the two Duchies, and, with them, the
German nation, will have to overcome. will
be the opposition of England. The Eng
lish Government regard the growth Of the
German nation, and, in particular, its per-
manent possession OF the ports of Holstein
and Schleswig, as dangerous to the inter-
ests Of England, and, therefore, to the
equilibrium and balance Of power in Eu-
rope.
The attempt of the Duchies to assert and
achieve their independence, they affect to
consider an outrage upon the treaty Of 1852,
which in their eyes is more sacred than the
rights OF popular sovereignty and of ma
tionality. They have protested at the
Frankfort Diet against the march of Ger
man troops into Schleswig, and announce
that if the integrity Of the Danish mon
archy should not be respected by Germany,
England will aid Denmark by force OF
arms. They propose, however, to attempt
q peaceable solution of the question by a
conference, at which representatives of the
Diet should be at present, as well as those
of the Powers which signed the treaties.
The attitude of Louis Napoleon with re-
gard to this war is less clear. In reply
. the Prince Of Augustenburg he repeats
1is belief in the principle Of nationalities,
md assures the Prince Of Augustenburg,
Is the representative Of this principle, Of
ais sympathy. But he states at the same {
ime, that if Denmark were oppressed by {
powerful neighbors, public opinion in
France would incline toward her. He then {
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