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History of the German Struggle for Liberty ' / ~l HISTORY OF TJHE if GERMAN STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY/ LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIC6O if03 WILLIAM THE CHEAT HISTORY OF THE GERMAN STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY M. UNIV. YALE HON. MEMBER ROYAL A. (HON. CAUSA) ; UNITED SERVICE LIFE MEMBER AMERICAN HISTORICAL INST., LONDON ; ASSOCIATION HON. MEMBER ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION, WOOLWICH ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS - IN (THREE^VOLUMES VOL. III. 1815-1848 NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1903 Copyright, 1903, by HAKPKK & BBOTHKM. All riokti nuntd. Published September, 1903. THIS BOOK I DEDICATE TO THE MEMORY OF THE MANY NOBLE GERMANS who have suffered prison, exile, and death in order that their country might be United and Free. CONTENTS OF VOL. Ill I. AFTER WATERLOO 1 II. THE STUDENTS LIGHT SOME DANGEROUS FIRES ON THE WARTBURG 7 III. PRUSSIA SORELY IN NEED OF MONEY 21 IV. THE GERMAN EMPIRE COMMENCES TO TAKE FORM 29 V. BIRTH AND EARLY PRIVATIONS OF ROBERT BLUM . 35 VI. PROFESSOR AND POLITICIAN 44 VII. A CHRISTIAN SPIRIT IN GERMANY 48 VIII. DEMOCRACY AND SCHOLARSHIP 55 IX. POETRY, Music, AND PATRIOTISM 58 X. NATIONAL ART 68 ""* XI. THE EARLY YEARS OF TURNVATER JAHN .... 72 XII. STUDENT AND FIGHTER 80 POPULARIZES THE MODERN TURNS* *^~ XIII. JAHN 90 XIV. METTERNICH DECLARES TURNEN TO BE TREASON . 97 ^ XV. JAHN'S IMPRISONMENT AND DEATH 101 XVI. AIX-LA-CHAPELLE (1818) AND THE HOLY ALLIANCE 115 XVII. PRUSSIAN FREE-TRADE, 1818 123 XVIII. THE FIRST GERMAN EMPEROR EARLY YEARS . 135 XIX. JULIE KRUDENER AND THE CZAR 145 XX. THEOLOGY PATRIOTISM ASSASSINATION .... 156 XXI. CARLSBAD DECREES, 1819 173 XXII. PRUSSIA WELCOMES THE CARLSBAD DECREES . 184 XXIII. HARD TIMES FOR THE HOLY ALLIANCE 190 XXIV. FRITZ REUTER . 196 vi CONTENTS OF VOL. Ill OBAPTEE PA0B XXV. THE HUSBAND OF QUEEN LUISE WANTS TO MARRY AGAIN 208 XXVI. GERMANY'S DEBT TO KOSSUTH AND HUNGARY . 217 XXVII. ITALY ALSO STRUGGLES FOR LIBERTY AND UNITY 238 XXVIII. DAVID STRAUSS AND His LIFE OF JESUS 250 XXIX. AMERICAN INFLUENCE 258 XXX. GERMANS COMMENCE TO EMIGRATE 274 XXXI. PRUSSIA TAKES AN INTEREST IN ROBERT BLUM . 283 XXXII. ROBERT BLUM AS A POLITICAL LEADER .... 289 XXXIII. FREDERICK WILLIAM IV. AND RELIGION .... 307 XXXIV. FREDERICK WILLIAM IV. AND SCHON 313 XXXV. SOCIALISM AND LASSALLE 323 XXXVI. HEINRICH SIMON 334 ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOL. Ill WILLIAM THE GREAT Frontispiece PRINCE METTERNICH Facing p. 8 " FREDERICK WILLIAM III 22 CARL HITTER " 44 LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN " 60 FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER " 72 FRIEDRICH LUDWIG JAHN " 102 AUGUST FRIEDRICH FERDINAND VON KOTZEBUE ... " 156 " FRANCIS LIBBER 180 " FRIEDRICH CHRI8TOPH DAHLMANN 186 " FRANZ JOSEPH I 222 LOUIS KO88UTH " 238 " JOSEPH MAZZINI 246 DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS " 254 " FREDERICK WILLIAM IV 308 BARON VON HUMBOLDT " 336 PREFACE IN this book I have endeavored to sketch for English- speaking readers an outline of the Germany which gloried in the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, which soon there- after sank into sullen apathy under the police administra- tion of the Holy Alliance, and which finally took bloody vengeance for its outraged manhood by inaugurating the revolutions of 1848. The task has been for me a difficult one much more so than preparing the first two volumes (1805-1815), in which the reader has his mind enlivened by a constant succession of stirring events connected with the great war against Napoleon. Here, however, we have to tell of a nation writhing in torment under the short-sighted administration of two Prussian kings whom the German school-boy of to-day is educated to regard as illustrious, but whom we cannot but think enemies of Germany. In England, the historical writer is free to publish the truth about his royal house. In France there is no dynastic influence to appease. The American his- torian is still more free. But in Germany, while the utmost independence is tolerated nay, encouraged in the fields of science, speculative philosophy, and even theology, the moment that the professor impinges upon X PREFACE the art of governing or the merits of those occupying a throne he feels himself on dangerous ground. I know German men of science who write and speak fearlessly. To name them is to give you a list of those who are not favorites at court, who are not sought out for government distinction. You have but to read through the histories of Germany that have been writ- ten since 1870 to satisfy yourself, though I do not envy the task of him who follows this hint. Like most German works of importance, they are very dry reading, and, in common with most German books, they have no index. Treitschke requires over 750 large, closely printed pages to bring his reader from 1830 to 1840 and another 750 from 1840 to 1848. He also has no index. To my mind the publisher guilty of such a book should be heavily fined. In the matter of memoir and biography, Germany is singularly poor as compared with France, England, or the United States. There is no good life of Blum or Jahn or Arndt. Most of the interesting men of this period were under police watch, and carefully destroyed all writing that could prove embarrassing on trial. Arndt thanked God that a storm at sea destroyed all his papers. Jahn lost all his in a fire. Worse than this, the families of many illustrious Ger- man patriots fear the ill-will of the government if they publish the documents in their possession. Even to-day the reader will find many books of this period still marked as "forbidden by the Censor." I have run across many such. PREFACE Xi The full report of the trial of Sand, the assassin of Kotzebue, has been published, and well repays study as a sample of criminal procedure. In many cases I found more in the British Museum library than in even so full and so liberal a library as that of Munich, which had not even a full list of all Robert Blum's works or even all his public speeches. To such as read German I cannot too highly com- mend a perusal of some of Jahn's writings notably his Volksthum and Selbstvertheidigung. He will find there an originality and vigor of expression most refreshing after reading the pages of the normal German scholar. Jahn uses, as a rule, shorter sentences and better-formed ones than any German I know. Carlyle has imitated him to advantage. It is safe to say that no German of our day, with the possible exception of Scherr, has used language so forcibly as Jahn. A fairly good German scholar who also knows English will have but slight difficulty in reading Fritz Reuter's famous Platt-deutsch account of his life in prison, Ut mine Festunstid. English and American encyclopaedias are poor guides in German biography. Even the Century Cyclopedia of Names ignores many whom Germans regard as emi- nent. It is well for the student, therefore, to refer to a German cyclopaedia, like Brockhaus's or, better still, the great biographical dictionary, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographic. Many lives have been written of the Emperor William, but they are all of the kind that make you feel that they have been edited in the palace. Seely's Life of Stein and Xii PREFACE Delbruck's Life of Gneisenau are each based on the large work of Pertz. The Berlin Police Library and archives no doubt con- tain much interesting literature of this period, but I was not permitted to more than surmise on this subject. It would be ungenerous to the reader if I here printed the hundreds of books and pamphlets I have consulted in the course of this volume. Much of my information I have gathered from personal visit to the spot where the interest centred. My various canoe cruises have been planned with a view of touching points of historic interest, and it is a means of locomotion I cannot too highly commend to those similarly employed, by reason of the facility with which maps, books, etc., can be carried and consulted on the journey. I refer, of course, to the American cruising Rob Roy, in which the occupant sleeps at night. Germany is singularly favored by navigable streams and canals. Indeed, I might almost say that there is no point of historic interest that could not be conveniently reached by canoe. ACKNOWLEDGMENT AMONG the many who have helped me in the prepara- tion of this volume it is a pleasure to recall Mr. Canfield, the librarian of Columbia University, and his very pains- taking and intelligent assistant, Miss MacMullen. The British Museum Library, through the kindness of my esteemed friend Dr. Garnett, gave me much assistance, PKEFACE xiii as did also the London Record Office, whose papers I was permitted to study, by the kind assistance of Mr. Hu- bert Hall. In Berlin, his Majesty the German Emperor most generously admitted me to the Archives of the Prussian State, and also to those of the War Depart- ment, down to the year 1815. The Royal Library of Berlin and the Municipal Library (in the Rathhaus) also gave me assistance. Finally, Dr. Koestler, of the Royal Library in Munich, took as much pains with me in his vast treasure-house as though he found no pleasure so great as helping the helpless American. Whatever the shortcomings of these sketchy chapters may be, they cannot possibly arise from want of most generous assist- ance in every quarter where I have applied. The British Museum even permitted me to use my typer in making notes. This was too violent an innovation for the Royal Library of Munich; but still even there I was accorded privileges which, until then, had been unheard of.
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