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Cause Of the European War.


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Cause of the European War.
In old times Prussia took Silesia from
Austria by force. Austria conquered and
annexed Venetia and Lomhardy. By mar
riages and regular inheritance the three king
dons of Scotland, England, and Hanover
came under one and the same king. By
similar means the Duke of Holstein, of
Schleswig, of Lauenburg, and the king OF
Denmark, came to be one and the same man.
Bv consent Scotland united with England
into one kingdom. both speaking the same
language. Without consentof either duchy,
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 Sale law, that a
woman shall not inherit the crown. the Duke
of Augustenburg became the heir to the three
duchies, and Victoria lost Hanover. But
England relinquished Hanover, which she
did not need, while Denmark, who needed
the duchies 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 pripci-
pal nations of Europe guaranteed the trans
action. Denmark still sat in the German
Diet as Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg.
throwing their votes against the interests of
the smaller German states, and against their
own interests.
Thus stood the case ten years ago. Next
came the war in which Louis Napoleon took
Lombardy from Austria and gave it to Sar-
DINA in exchange for Savoy and Nice, which
as naturally belong to France as to Italy,
To this respectable nucleus Sardinia agere-
gated at length all the rest of Italy except
part of the States of the Church, Rome in
cluded,) and Venetia. Thus the Gentleman
King, Victor Emanuel, became King of Italy.
He has reigned in Turin, reigns in Florence,
and means to reign in Rome.
When the late king of Denmark died, the
Duchies refused to receive as successor the
king whom the nations had agreed should
reign over them The German Diet sustain
ed them in their secession, and the guaran-
tors of the transaction, England included,
broke their faith Just as the Federal army
was preparing to interfere, Austria and Prus-
STA. who had no quarrel with Denmark, rush.
ed in and by an unequal and bloody war
wrested the three Duchies from him to whom
the neighboring nations had warranted them.
But instead of giving them to the Duke of
Augustenburg, 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-
vention stipulated that Austria should tenn
porarily occupy Holstein, which was of little
use to her, separated by the whole breadth
IF Gor,,o,,v o,,I Dr,1ccis chorl1 tI<, n ~.
way, hold Schleswig, separated from her own
territory by Holstein, which last she was de-
termined to have also, first or last, by fair
the seaport of Kiel.
Thus matters rested till within a month or
two. Prussia had hoped readily to buy off
Austria from Holstein, but the extreme pow
erty of the latter makes her pride the more
sensitive. But this is not the chief reason
Austria is willing to sell Holstein, is anxious
to do it; not for dollars, but for Silesia, 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
the matter over to the Diet. Several mott
yes influenced this body. Austria and Prus-
STA have long struggled for the entire control
of it, hoping that at some time all the minor
states would become virtually the domain Of
the more successful But the mass of Ger
mans wish 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 abro
gated the Gastien Convention, and that il
was right to return to the former state Of
| joint possession. So she moves her troops
| into Holstein, and consents to Austria's shar
ing with her in the occupancy of Schleswig
| But bear is not more undesirable as bed
fellow than the company of Prussian troops
to Austrian garrisons when all Prussia il
between them and help. SOFAS the one slip:
in the other slips out.
Thus far there is no war; But Prussis
protests against the vote of the Diet tt
mobilize the Federal army, and when thi.
step is voted nine to six. she pronounce
Germany thing of the past, and the Con
| federation at an end. She now marches int
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 Garihaltli, the apostle
of Italian nationality, invades Venetia, will
the determination to accomplish the unifca
tion of the Kingdom of Italy, expecting tina
ofcourse Rome and the Pontifical territorie
must fall into the hands of the rising powe
Of the Sandman iberator. For results W,
must wait upon the verdict of the sword
4 Though without justifying all that is don
by Prussia and Italy in these things, GU
sympathies are with them rather than will
Austria, because theirs is the cause Of pro
gress and of popular liberty.
The want of correct tidings from the fell
ofwar in Germany and Italy is cleyerlv ez
planned by correspondent of an Englis
journal, who has been hunting for Genera
Cialdini's army without finding it, and r.
marks that it is difficult, indeed almost in
f possible, for o 9 correspondent to give an
really Trustworthy account of events in Il cou1
} try where the press says nothing. the countr
people know nothing, and you are not allow
ed to go about and see anything for you
f self"