Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-13
The IDI.pos~essed Princes--Advah
Iages OF the AnnexaIi0ns,
[From the LondOn Times, Sept. 25.

lFrom the London Times, Sept. %.
The loss of sovereign power however
limited, by a narrow territory and preca-
rious independence, may, nodoubt, appear
irreparable to those>who have known its
charms by long enjoyment. We should
otherwise look upon the, fate Of most Cor
man 'nionarchsS retired froms business is
anything but sdeplorable, seeingl what
splendid fortunes they can still make out
of the mere wreck Of their royal greatness.
How.eesy they fDaitto buy castles Rndres-
tates ia their land of refuge, and what
large pensions they loGhtriVeto exc out of
the mere crumbs of their late civil lists
Why, the Eleetor OF Hesse noto Only Ehas
secured an income Of $600OO0 aud two of
his stsplendid doiiiafns, but he eVeh has
the free choice OF q residence in any part
OF his former Elec tdrate, With the excep-
ton of the City of Cassel, and will prOba-
bly, live all the more easily at peace with
his late subjects, as he has now lost the
power to work them mischief We have
been most unjustly reproached with hay
ing withheld our sympathy from the fallen
House of the Gnelphs Of Hanover. With
them, and with all Of their royal brethren,
wehave certainly not been chary of our
condolences, but we cannot find 1t in our
hearts to bewail the fate of their subjects,
ferent tribes of one and the same race into
a great and powerful nation so very great
blessing as to counterbalance any such
loss as the decline of mere third or
fourth rate capital, or the remnant of the
corrupting influence Of the patronage Of a
petty Government. And, after all, it is
impossible to deny that those petty States
stood in the way Of human progress. The
first act of the Prussian Government on
getting possession Of Hanover, is that of
building bridge on the Elbe between
Hamburg and Harburg, an enterprise
against which the Court of Hanover set its
heart to the last. The fall Of that Kingdom,
however bitterly it may be felt by the Ham
overians themselves, has, we hear, given
the greatest satisfaction to the free cities
Of Hamburg and Bremen, whose commerce.
had been hampered by all manner of yex-
atious restrictions of the Hanoveriau Gov
ernment, bent on the impractieable scheme
of favoring the trade of Harburg and Gest-
munde. The same hindrances were by the
same Government thrown into the way of
many railway companies from selfish de-
sire to secure monopoly in behalf of its
own lines. Nothing Is more common, in
deed, than to find narrow views within
narrow boundaries. We had occasion not
long ago to advert to the long and insu-
perable opposition which the undertaking
Of railway aerossthe Helvetiaa Alps met
with from the jealousy and selfshness Of
the small Swiss Cantons, Ticino, Uri and
the. .Grisons. Nothing is further from our
thoughts than the wish that these small |
States should be punished for their iIliber- |
ality by extinction. Only they should live
and let live, and take hint from Hanover,
from Hesse, and their neighbors, which |
have probably only came to their end be-
cause their. existence had no longer an OBJ
ject, and the world could get on better /
without than with them. : N4tN '41dDl