Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-07-30
FAMOUS
PEACE TREATIES
TREATY OF VIENNA, 1864.
schleswis and Hoiste.n to Prussia.
BY H. IRVING KING

The treaty Of Vienna. signed In 1864,
between Denmark on one side and
Austria and Prussia on the other, put
amend to the war which the two latter
powers had been waging against the
former and tore the duchies of Schles-
wig and HOlstein from the Danish
crown. The revolutionary spirit which
had swept Germany in 1913 had grad
uaIly died away and Il period of re-
action had set in. Nowhere was the
reaction so strong as in Prussia. In
lSo' Frederick William, under whom
Prussia had suffered so many humili-
ahons, became insane and his brother
William became first regent and, early
In 1851, king. He was a Hohenzollern
or the true type. deeply imbued with
the spirit of miitarism. Bismarck
had already made for himself a reputa
tl'n as the exponent of force and the
new king employed him as just the
man he wanted to work out his plans.
William proposed great increase in
the RUSSIAN amy and navy, and when
the Prussian parliament rejected his
plans sent for Bismarck and, making
him minister-president, told him TO
tame the parliament. He tanned 1t,
or. acted without it, as he pleased.
The German problem" he told
them, could not be solved by parli-
mentary DEGREES, but by blood and
ron" He forced bills through by en-
In, Il; ho
Instituted the army reforms; he
framed trade treaty with France
which Austria declared unfriendly and.
upon Austria's protesting, he recog-
nized the new Kingdom of Italy. He
dispatched an ultimatum to the elector
of Hesse. which brought that poten-
tate to reason with regard to the af-
fairs Of his electorate.
illegal and Arbitrary Powers.
To the Austrian delegate to the diet
Count karoIyi, ancestor of the Count
karolyi who has just played so i'm
portant a part in the affairs Of Hun
gary-he said: Our relations with
Austria must soon become either bet
ter or wOrSe-we sincerely desire the
former of the two alternatives His
entire policy was directed to driving
Austria out OF Germany and giving to
Prussia the hegemmy of the confed-
GRAFTON. In other words, Austria was
to be driven out and Prussia would
eat up what remained. To build up
Prussia. King William did not hesitate
to use Illegal and arbitrary power.
Won Moltke appeared in the military
councils of Prussia and the country
was at once thoroughly "militarized."
The Polish instruction in 1863 gave
Bismarck a chance to make friends
with Russia, and lie declared that Ii
Russia were driven out Of Poland
Prussia would march in. The affairs
of the "duchies" gave Bismarck an
other opportunity. The Danish gov
eminent had prepared constitution
for Schleswig which made that duchy
an integral part of the Danish king
dom, which was contrary to the last
OF the many settlements of the
"Schieswig- Holstein question" The
Germanic confederation refused tC
take any steps and bismarck made
advances to Austrin-he would en-
veigle her and then destroy her.
The Danes counted upon aid from
France and England, in both of which
countries there had been an Outbreab
of sympathy for small nation men
ncei by two powerful ones, and II
March Of 1858 royal proclamation
issued at Copenhagen repudiated the
settlement of 1852 and offered the
gage of battle.
Beginning Of War.
On Jnnuary 49, 1864, Prussia ant
Austria sent an ultimatum to Den