The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-02-02
sies TO those whou the people en-
pected him 70 counsel with


mark. ineiudin' those ov Soraay ar
SHeden. ov course. had cause 70 ccn-
plain ia . special way. The era o.
misrule had enabled the nobIes and
few other wealthy men TO get con
troll ov practically All oy the land
and other property and the average
common citizen vsx rapidly beln' re-
dueed 10 serfdom- The king there
fore became the slave ov the mobiles
and at profit TO himself. but ~ the
expense ov the rank and file.
About this time the doctrines OF
Martin Luther became popular
throughout many portions ov the
world. The Prince became = con
vert or pretended that hs vuz. This
created more confusion. The ''ad-
ministrator" ov affairs in Sweden wuz
opposed by the clergy and b. Arch
bishop Upsal. They went into poll
tics and formed a party TO elect
Christian King ov Sweden and 10 put
the administrator out ov business
When Christian heard this bit ov
welcome news he acted in his Gus
tomary impetuous manner and sent a
body ov troops 10 Schooner under the
command ov General Crumpen. al
though hit wGZ In the dead oy winter
in that extremely cold climate. The
administrator" had a pretty good
army and he put up a fight. Three
battles were fought; the first decided
nothing, in the second the admins
traitor wuZ wounded and in the third
the Swedes were thoroughly defeat
ed. The administrator died from his
battle. Crumpen marched through
Sweden to Stockholm, capturin' that
city. After this Christian wuz pro-
claimed king. Durin' hiz absence
from Denmark the opposition had de-
cided TO dethrone King Christian.
But when he returned from Sweden
after defeatin' the army there the
opposition in Denmark became quiet
and submissive.
Christian soon let the Swedes I'M
derstand that he meant to treat them
az subjects ov conquered country.
When the coronation ceremonies
were held Christian appointed the
usual number of knights but not one
ov them wuZ Swede, awl bein'
natives Ov Denmark or ov Norway
soon afetrward Christian announced
that hereafter he would not show any
mark ov honor to a Swede, because
he owed that crown to his arms and
IN
ward, bein' embarrassed in his finan-
cial affairs, Christian IL sed to hev
decided on plan to put awl the
members ov the Senate to death. Hiz
mistress liz Sed to hev formed the
plan. Hit wuZ laid before the Arch
bishop of Upsal and il said to hev
met hiz approval. The old hypocrit
wuz beginnin' to show the stuff he
wuz made Ov at last. The Swedish
Senators were taken into custody
and given mock trial. But even a
mock trial which wuz certain to turn
out to suit Christian wuz too slow
for that cruel man and he ordered
that seventy of the accused be exc
cuted by hiz soldiers. Bein' inform
ed that several men whom he had
marked for death were in hiding, he
ordered the soldiers to search anvil
houses and kill the persons no mat
ter where found. In fact, awl public
men who were at awl unpopular with
the king We're killed wherever they
could be found
But the day ov retribution wuz at
hand. Gustavus, son of Eric Vasa,
reused the Swedish peasantry
throughout awl ov the provinces and
they made brave fight for life and
liberty. The city ov Stockholm wuz
invested by Gustavus and hiz army.
The king sent a powerful army and
a strong fleet ov old-fashioned war
ships. Gustavus held his own, how
ever. After time the city ov Stock
holm got in desperate way. An
open revolt broke out against Chris
tian in Denmark and portions ov
and Sweden. Christian then
set out to put down the rebellion.
But he had more trouble on hiz hands
than he could manage. He soon
gave up the idea and decided to re-
tire to what wuZ known az the low
countries" for safety. Az soon az
hiz flight wuz known Denmark and
agreed on an uncle ov Chris
tian, Frederick I, Duke of Holstein,
for king. Durin' hiz rule the aristoc-
racy gained complete control HUI
man bondage or slavery, which had
been an illegal privilege though al
lowed, wuZ legalized and the rich
could own az many slaves az they
could buy, the poor natives bein' the
subjects seized or condemned to
serve masters. An hit liz perhaps
needless to say that the enslavement
ov people equal to their masters in
everything except the gift ov getting
and owning property, which liz not
an evidence ov ability in most cases,
and il not even worthy to be termed
a gift. liz the very worst form ov