The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-07-17
Canse of the European War.

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! Canse Of the European War.
| In old times Prussia took Silesia from
Austria by force. Austria conquered and
annexed Venetia and Lomhartly. BY mar
riages and regular inheritance the three king
doms of Scotland, England, and Hanover
came under one and the same king. by
| similar means the Duke of Holsteln, OF
Schleswig. of Laucnhurg, and the king OF
| Denmark. came to he one and the same man.
Bv consent Scotland united with England
into one kingdom. both speaking the same
language. Without consent OF either duciy,
they speaking German, and being members
of the German Confederation, the late king
OF Denmark annexed his duchies to the Dan
iSh kingdom. He had no son, nor had Will
liam of England. BY the Salic law, that IL
woman shall nNt inherit the crown, the Duke
II AuguStcnburg became the heir to the three
duchios and Victoria lost Hanover. But
! England rciinqui>hed Hanover, which she
: did not need. while Denmark, who needed
! the duchirS more than her own territories
! even bought of the heir apparent his title to
the crown: she did not buy the consent of
the inhabitants of the duchies. The princi
pal nations OF Europe guaranteed the trans
iction. Denmark still sat in the German
Diet - SchIs>wig, HolStein. and Lrucnburg,
t::rowiun their votes against the interests of
the smaller German states, and against their
oNr Interests.
Thus stood the case ten years ago. Next
came the war in which Louis Napoleon took
i-a.lharIy from Austria and gave it to Sar
. l:nia i'll exchange for Savoy and Nice, which
;,< naturally belong TO France as TO Italy,
10 this respectable nucleus Sardinia ag9re-
gated at length all the rest OF Italy except
part OF the States of the Church, Qaome in
! cluled) and Nenetia. Thus the Gentleman
King. Victor Emanuel, became King of Italy.
( He has reigned in Turin, reigns in Florence,
and mcans.to reign in Rome.
! When the late king of Denmark died, the
! DucIeS refused to receive successor the
kim whom the nations had agreed should
reign over them. The German Diet sustain
! eel them in their secession, and the guaran-
/ tors of the transaction, England included,
broke their faith. just the Federal army
was preparing to interfere. Austria and Prus-
sin. who had no quarrel with Denmark, rush
/ ed in and by an unequal and bloody war
wrested the three Duchics from him to whom
the ncighborirg nations had warranted them.
/ i3rlt instead of giving them to the Duke of
Au"ustenhurg, Austria sold Prussia her
claim to Lauenburg, four hundred square
miles only, and not forty thousand inhabi-
tants for less than two million dollars. As
for the other two Duchies. the Gastein Con-
vcntion stipulated that Austria should tenn
po-arily occupy Holstein, which was of little
!
o. Germany. and Prussia should, in the same
way, hold Schleswig, separated from her own
territory by Holsten, which last she was de-
| tyrmined to have also, first or last. by fair
means or foul. She could not do without
tie seaport of Kiel.
Thus matters rested till within month or
! t,;o Prussia had hoped readily to buy off
! Austria from Holstein, but the extreme pow
! ertv of the latter makes her pride the more
sensitive. But this is not the chief reason.
A lstria is willing to sell Holstcin, is anxious
! to do it not for dollars, but for Silcsia, of
which old Fritz robbed her. Holstein is
worth more to Prussia than Silesia is, and
Austria can never be happy without it. But
Prussia is out of debt and wishes to pay
cash When Austria refuses, Prussia, from
urgent, became insolent, till Austria handed
! tie matter over to the Diet Several mott
! VS. influenced this body. Austria and Prlis-
/ si,l have long struggled for the entire control
81 it, hoping that at some time all the minor
ST ites would become virtually the domain OF
! tic more successful. But the mass of Ger
mans wish Il German nation. Both Austria
and Prussia rule over states of different
! language and of a different race. Prussia
! argued that when Austria referred the ques-
! ton of the Duchies to the Diet, she had ahrO-
/ gated the Gastien Convention, and that it
WAS right to return to the former state of
! Joint possession. So she moves her troops
J
! in:s with her in the occupancy of Schleswig.
! But a bear is not more undesirable bed
fellow than the company of Prussian troops
! to Austrian garrisons, when all Prussia is
between them and help. SOFAS the one slips
! in the other slips out.
| Thus far there is TO war. But Prussia
protests against the vote of the Diet to
mobilize the Federal army, and when this
step is voted nine to six. she pronounces
Germany Il thing of the past, and the Con
federation at an end. She now marches into
Saxony and Hanover with the avowed in
tention of conquering to herself as much ter
ritory as she can. And thus the war begins.
Awaiting himself of the opportunity, vic
tor Emanuel aided by Garibaldi the apostle
of Italian nationality, invades Venetia, with
the determination to accomplish the uniica-
ton of the Kingdom of Italy, expecting that
of course Rome and the Pontifical territories
must fall into the hands of the rising power
of the Sandman iberator. For results we
must wait upon the verdict of the sword
Though without justifying all that is done
by Prussia and Italy in these things, our
sympathies are with them rather than with
Austria, because theirs is the cause of pro-
gress and of popular liberty.
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