Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-16
PRUSSIAN TYRANNY IN sCHLES
MIG

In view Of the I,.-opeuiug of the SclIles-
wig question. and tlIo alleged intention Of
certain European powers TO interfere in
the matter, the following, from the COpen-
hagen correspondence Of the BOHdOH Times
will prc-h sc interest: @Ths behafiOr Of
the RUSSIAN authorities in Schleswig is
more arbitrary than ever; and things have
now come to such raSS that, unless re-
dress u Ol;tGiIied, il will be impossible for
the Danish government TO stand pas
sivelv by and submit 10 the iu-
suits and prosecutions Of which
its subjects are made victiIts. Oh the facts
recently brought before the public, l shall
premise that the hostility of the PrusSian
officials is especially directed against the
papers which invoke the fifth article Of the
Prague treaty: In the small town Of
| Aabenraa, or Apeurade, as the Germans
prefer 10 call IL, there has existed for many
wears a newspaper called the FfeiG. Even
! in the most excited periods Of natural war
| fare. and during the actual military occupa-
| ton of the borough by the PrISSians, this
| inOfiensive paper managed to live on I'M
| hurt, and. though surrOun ed by suspicious
| ewes, il has never incurred even the slightest
! puuishment. The editor Of the FFejd was
! assisted in his work by his son, who
had serted I'm the Danish army, and now
| lived in his fathers house as his guest and
assistant. One day he was summoned TO-
the landrath, and received notice that
within three DAYS he was TO leave the
| duchy. No reason was alleged for this ar
bitrary expulsion, but il was privately inti-
mated 10 him that his working on a paper
| of Danish tendencies made his further stay
| i'm his fathers house inadmiSSible. The
| consequence was that the FFejd could not
| exist any longer rs an independent paper,
| and was amalcamated withthe DdRRetirke,
| 4 idrnal published In tie nCishfOring
| town Of Hadprsicy. Scarcely had the new
amalganaied paper appeared than its sub
/ editor. Bennetzen. who happened TO he a
/ Danish subject. was summoned IN the like
manner and ordered 10 leave the duchy
Within A week. tn d third Danish paper,
| the DVbol Post, published in the island OF
/ Ais, the compositOrs were born Danes.
| The pOlice-master sent for them and order
/ ed them to leave Immediately, stating
| openly at tile same time, that II they
| would cease TO work in the Office OF the pa
per advocating the Danish cause, they were
| free to remain. Again, in consequence Of
| the Danish language-the only one under
| stood by the common peoplc-haNlns been
| prescribed from the divine services. even ~
| purely Danish parishes, many members 81
the community are prevented FROM hearing
the word of God, and this lead 10 i move
ment for getting Danish ministers
| TO visit SleSwick aud preach Dan
| ish in private cOnventiclcs. But
the Prussian authorities objected 10
such private church services and expelled
the Danish ministers as dangerous criml-
nails. Some days ago a Danish vicar who
had come down from Jutland to visit his
former parishiOners was seized by gendarmes
and carried before the pOlice-master of the
district. who subjected him TO a sharp in
| terrogatory, and only with many cautions
suffered him to continue his tour. While
this system of arbitrary expulsion is being
carried out against the Danish subjects
| happening to live within the Sleswick Dor
der. the regime established by Prussia in
the Danish districts of the duchy is max
ing every effort Ia GeTmaniZe the country.
In public prOclamaiions and official decla-
ratiOns, for which every opportunity IS
sought, it is asserted that no part oil
Sleswick will ever be returned to Den
marx; that its inhabitants are ire
vOcably made subjects of Prussia,
and that the government never intends
to execute the treaty of Prague Every
thing is done TO prescribe the Danish Ian
guage from church and school, the masters
and The Wears nominated TO purely Danish
districts being unable to speak and under
stand the language Of their parishioners:
The names of towns, villages, rivers, and
farms are Germanized so that the inlabi,
tantS cannot recognize them. BY order oil
the provincial government, no meeting
gathering, or feast of the Danish SleSwick-
ers is allowed without the German flag be
exhibited in prOmident place, and as thu:
command is generally not Obeyed, the
German gendarmes appear with hugs
black-white-red flag which is then placed
behind the chairman, and which is thu
alluded 10 bl the party in their pT5Tafe con
yeTsaliOn as Gessler's hat