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Conservative, and in the face of the frequently immature and
narrow-minded patriotism of opposition papers, maintained the
importance of a free intellectual association with the old
sister-country, Denmark. While its chief opponent, «Morgenbladet»,
found its readers for the most part among the burger-class and
the peasants of the East Country, «Den Constitutionelle» was
circulated almost exclusively among the Civil Service. This field,
however, was too confined to ensure the paper a long existence;
and after a brilliant period of 5 or 6 years, it gradually drooped,
and in 1847, was incorporated with «Den norske Rigstidende».
The Conservative party, however, were not long to be without
an organ. No later than the following year, Christiania-Posten
(1848—63) began to be published, with very much the same
programme as «Den Constitutionelle». Most of its editors, however,
were far removed from active politics, a fact which gave their
journalistic work an academic character. By its detailed treatises,
and enlightening accounts of the events of the day at home
and abroad, the paper did indeed become a much-read
newspaper in the capital and in the Civil Service; but its influence
was never especially great. Added to this, its position was
rendered very uncertain by the frequent change of editor, and the
consequent changes in its political views. The best known of its
editors is the original journalist. L. Kr. Daa, who some years
previously had edited the paper Granskeren (1840—43), in which
he boldly and keenly advocated Liberal reforms according to the
English type. As the editor of «Christiania-Posten», he was an
especially zealous defender of the so-called «Scandinavianism», or
the union of the nations of Scandinavia in defence against
common enemies.
In 1855 the capital acquired a new political journal in
Aftenbladet (1855—81), a continuation of a satirically humorous weekly
paper, Krydseren, and at first edited by O. Richter and D.
Meidell, and subsequently by the last-named, either alone or in
union with others, among whom we would especially mention two
names that are well known in the Norwegian press, namely,
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and F. Bætzmann. What especially
distinguished this new paper was its news of the day, local
information, rapidity in the communication of intelligence from at
home and abroad, and also the talented treatment of artistic and
literary questions. During the first few years, it retained
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