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? by ‘ themselves.Ith8, j)ygj” THE SLBSriG-HOUTRIS QUESTem--2 »(From The 0'cr ^or- TW^jflUrmioable question is still far from oubfc : solution. Tbs difficulties of the emquerers may :r;. - * trial I mid to have begun after fchair conquest, aci i: :n:i mrly ! moment they are hampered by obstacles which r.i ouid • 60 defeat of their long-cherished iotaQtioas. W-j before os the text of a petition addressed to the C :-cm-I sioners of Prussia and Austria by the inhabitantby^ on | North of Slesvig, who state their grievances in tie » SUP j iog termsia]]y j “The treaty o( peace signed at Vienna Jus: ?»*: ix »ta- ! beau a great misfortune for us. I: separated as. in i-djca I ad- j right and justice, from a country that we regarded .3 sr: own. We had, nevertheless, hoped for protection perty and person, bat this hope, founded on the e^eerr *-entertained for the two greot Powers, has been e 0 i iC From the outset of the war this country has :eec . who j raded by a crowd of people seeking public fuaccioai me iaed 1 the two great German Powers, believing, erroneously. \zi: and we were discontented with our former rulers, allowed tc-ai ! to be replaced by persons who neither possessed the :enpec;air*,odywasnor the oonfidenoe of the country. It was pretealt;i*i :cii it cf * W6 ^der oppreitiou, and that we would r.re*j Uurela on the path of our liberators. Oa the couirary ^*nytoringriy,owaoeLine-have held aloof from our conqaerois .\ud La?-* c-.“ -• pressed to them our regrets.“The partiaans of the Duke of Augustecbcirg sei.va: upon the chief place*, and we have been ruled :*11 ambitious end unfit men, who have betrayed their k:sg i:d their country. Honest men were dismissed, and we abandoned to the ill-treatment of the Augustenbur^n. who soon threw aside the veil and displayed themself their true 00lours, a* not less hostile to Prussia ini Am:: s than to Denmark. The voice of the ooontrr te-stiri-d. isc the re porta on its condition are drawn up by cur merz.x-| who pomces the ear of your excellencies, wmie you dc res !7e** j even understand our language.The churches are. empty. The Danish schoolmasters have been expelled from Tillages where as yet the Uema tongue is unknown. In most town# the authorities na*« reoogniaed tb*JPrinoe of Aogosteaharg» bet if ever h* '*■ comes oa? master, our misfortunes ifould reech such * point that 'we oouH no longer endure theft. The new judges. not, win .the regard of the -populations, icepolice is eomp^esd of traitors who quitted their n»g danag the wer, fttfd who display in every sot the teal of p*r; crsdconverts.“ An iaatanne of thi* has within the last few days be^o brought under the notice of your excellenc:**- We re:« to thehase otf 4 deputy of the SHesvig Diet, who, by orlx.a .L . 1/ rr i i.t ___/.w ur*UoresUalf3rd,uldbogiornictagtobaa*tty I Mayor of Haderiieben, wss taken on foot byjkx*f ^ j mounted police to the police-office, whilst other offiejn. 9 by i under p* steal lt;rf‘ seehteg;,pe^i iehs sddremed to the 2a-■”' u.* - ■*««td b^ eoaddtnd^ to corporkf Junisfimenj or to ftaee. At Apenrade 14 citixens were arrestedwad thrown into dnzmxM.4hcir efijy crime being that they ***lOOri oat
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London Morning Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Jun 01, 1865
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