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sister-land on the other side of the Sound offers
us.
At the London Conference in 1864, the
representative of England, Lord Russell, referred
to the decision arrived at by the Paris Congress
in 1856, that States which had any serious
dispute should appeal to the mediation of a
friendly power before taking to arms. In
harmony with this the British plenipotentiary
proposed that the question, whether the boundary
line should be drawn between the lines of
Aabenraa-Tœnder, on the one side, or
Dannewerke-Sli on the other, should be decided by
arbitration. Prussia and Austria consented to
accept the mediation of a neutral power; but
Denmark replied to the proposition with a
distinct refusal. In the same way Denmark
refused the proposal made first by Prussia, and
later by France, that a means of deciding the
boundary should be sought in a plebiscite of
the people in Sleswick.
Denmark trusted too much upon might and
too little upon right. Otherwise Sleswick had
still been Danish.
If the axiom be correct, that disputes which
affect the existence and independence of
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