The Hawaiian gazette., 1868-11-04

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impost for the support of an Imperial
army, whose duty should be to preserve
internal and external safety; and third, an
annual meeting of the Diet, and perma-
nent Committee, using the imposts and
lirecting the army for the best interests of
the country. Maximilian lost the good
opportunities. arising from the national
wishes of his people, and they were never
to be regained.
Religious dissensions divided Germany,
and weakened the national spirit. There
were no more Germans in Germany they
,alled themselves Catholics and Protest
-.nts, and preferred foreigners of their own
reed to their countrymen of different
,ersuasion. After the peace of West
,halia, the independence of private States
was more and more marked and notieea-
BILE, till the end of the 18th century. The
Germanic Body was then entirely broken
up, and unhappily, after the Seven Years
War, the antagonism of the two great
ival powers became such that Austria and
Prussia were always ready to resort to
rms for the settlement of their difficulties.
t was then that Voltaire said "that the
multiplicity of States would maintain the
equilibrium, until there should arise in
Germany some power strong enough to
tbsorb the Others German Patriotism,
that strong and admirable feeling which
has produced the late events, was then
unknown. Frederic ii. had no patriotic
ointment, and he hardly knew his mother
ongue. He liked and admired nobody
Jut the French. The great writers, whose
works were to give the Germans the unity
If an intellectual country, were not ma
.ional-they thought of the progress of
mankind rather than of Germany. Pa
Iriotism is fine feeling, for it prompts a
man to sacrifice himself and his life for
his country, but it is not an innate in
itinct like that of the family; it has not
always existed, and may not always exist.
When man shall find in all countries the
.ame security, the same freedom, the same
rights, he will consider the whole earth as
his country, and all men as his brothers.
Even now, we tend to Cosmopolitan. 1t
is natural consequence of Christianity,
which knows nothing but humanity and
Justice, and commands that conformity of
doctrine should be above the ties of blood
"Those who do my Fathers will are my
brethren" is a sublime thought, which, far
from being an attack against family ties,
will be the glorious basis of future societies.
If justice is to be revered and loved above
everything, am | not obliged to wish for
the defeat of my country when it makes
an unjust war? In the times of old Greece,
the patriotic feeling did not exist, but in
its place was the civic attachment of the
citizens to their cities because when the
city was conquered, the citizen lost every
thing property, his life or his free
dom. In the middle ages, patriotism was
not to be seen the princes were alive to
nothing but their ,own private interests,
and the common people, not knowing the
blessings of heme, had in fact no country
to love and defend. 1t was at the time of
the Revolution that, for the first time, the
national feelings were awakened in France,
when foreign armies made that ever
remembered invasion of its territory and
it was the hatred of the Napoleonic rule
that gave rise to patriotism 10 Germany.
To fight against the Empire of Napoleon,
Stein borrowed the force of the Revolu-
ton itself, and made the people free. The
Tagend6und, assembling together citizens
from all parts of Germany, inspired them
with the same spirit-the hatred of foreign
invaders-and taught them that they had
a common country to protect. The
speeches of Fichte, the songs of Korner,
those germaine Marseillaises - infamed
patriotism, and the principles of the
French Revolution, adopted abroad, rose
against France, which had forsaken them.
We know how the Holy Alliance de-
ceiyed the hopes that were entertained of
the War of Deliverance-Befreitngskrieg
but the German national feelings, the
explosion of which was provoked by Ma
poleon, were not to be extinguished. In
vain did Metternich try to suppress them
the Universities and the students kept
them as a sacred fire, which they insinu-
ated into the hearts of all. When oppor-
tunities offered, patriotism would show
itself, as in the complications Of 1910,
when Becker composed his patriotic hymn:
/" Sic so1ea ihn nicht haben den yfi-eiea
demschen Rhein," to which Alfred de
Musset answered in such sharp manner.
From 1874, the Germans, free from ex-
ternal troubles, have turned their attention
to internal reforms, and have sought from
the institution of deliberative assembly
in Berlin, the regeneration of the country.
The accession Of Frederic William ". to
the throne caused an outburst of national