The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-08

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there is, joint stock company would find
little or no money in it; but there is one thing
of which you may feel quite sure, if anything
could be made by Bouguerreboyziering the
negroes of the South, or of the North, Boston
would very cheerfully and very promptly fur
nish company for the purpose.
SCHLESWIG-HO HOLSTEIN AGAIN.
From the N. Y. Times.
The fact of the Danish question having
been again revived, and of the consequent
interchange of diplomatic notes between the
Cabinets of Berlin and Vienna, will probably
appear to the general reader a remarkably
uninteresting piece of intelligence. OF all
the murky questions of European politics, the
political status of these Elbe Duchies is per-
haps the most unintelligible. Luxembourg
and the Danubian Principalities are daylight
itself when compared with tbs Cimmerian
darkness which envelops Schleswig- H olstein.
The fortunes of the Industrious little COM
munity of stock farmers who sustain the
commerce of Kiel and Altona have, since the
seven days German war of 1866, dropped out
of public view.
1t may be remembered that Prussia and
Austria, as joint bailiffs for the Germanic
Confederation, put in what was called a
''federal execution" on this portion of the ter
ritories of the newly-crowned King of Den
mark The gallant but Intellectual resistance
of the Danes, the abortive London Confe-
renee, and the joint military occupation of
the Duchies, are all events not yet entirely
forgotten. AS less marked episode, we may
recall the Prussian recognition of the claims
of Prince Frederick, of Augustenburg, to the
sovereignty and Bismarks subsequent change
of policy when two other candidates started
up to complicate the business. For nine
months eleven Prussian Crown lawyers tried
hard to unravel the skein, and, tangled by
the narrow majority of six to five, came to
the highly iudicious conclusion that none of
the pretenders had right to the whole of the
Duchies, and that therefore Prussia and Aus.
tria, to whom the King of Denmark had
ceded the territory, were the Legitimate
owners. ..H
These learned pundits were evidently in.
capable of realizing the absurdity of deriving
a title from the very sovereign whose claims
the German powers had just been forcibly
disputing. The question, however, remained
conveniently open, and formed a pretext
from the disputes incident on joint occupa
ton, first for sundry threatening dispatches
to Austria, and next, by it's introduction into
the German Diet, for the declaration of the
war which eliminated at Sadowa, and changed
the territorial map of Europe.
To those who coincide with the opinion
lately 6ApIeSSeu ny u Well-lulOIIueu
tator on European politics, that "we had al
yet seen only the first act of a great drama
when the curtain fell at Sadowa, the reopen
| ing of the Schleswig- -Holstein dispute is some
| what ominous, 1t is probable that Austri;
may have at last demanded that her forme
coadjutor should challenge the general vot
| of the inhabitants as to their future sove
reignty-a course which, so loAg as she clun,
to Venetia and the Quadrilateral she coul,
not very consistently press.
From the Toledo Blade.
The brother-in-law dodge is played out
The inimitable Dent is politically defunet
There was not virtue enough in the hem O
the Presidents garment to give political lif
to relative himself without principle O
merit. Men of all parties will rel ioice that thi
effort of one of the smallest of small politi
clans to climb into conspicuous position owe
great mans shoulders has signally failed
That every tub should stand on it's own bot
tom is a principle which appears to be re
cognized still by the common sense of mar
kind.
The ex-Rebels have often boasted of thei
power over the colored people of the South
and of their ability to make them vote as thei
old masters should dictate. If the ex-slavt
holder had been free to use the whip and til
knife as freely as he was in the days of Jane
Buchanan the old supremacy would have bee
maintained, Just as it used to be over th
poor, landless whites of that region. Bu
happily, General Ames was ON hand to Sc
Justice done, and to maintain every man
right, be he black or white, to vote as b
pleased. They have so voted, and the resu
is one favorable to freedom and the futur
peace of the whole country.
The victory of the radicals in Mississippi
secures Republican delegation in Congress
and the adoption of State Constitution, an