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Danmarks krise 1863.
9
Overbeviisning, at H. M. kun
har fulgt sit eget Overlæg i denne
Sag, og efter at have afveiet,
hvad Følgerne kunde blive,
naar han underskrev eller ikke
underskrev. At han Søndag
Aften og endnu om Mandagen
var meget tvivlraadig, er sändt;
men kunde det være anderledes
i en saa vigtig for H. M.
ganske ny Sag, som var bleven
bekjæmpet af Mænd, paa hvis
politiske Klogskab han hidtil
havde stolet, og som han
an-saae som sine troefaste Venner;
Kongen glemte ikke, hvad
Pr[ins| Christian skyldte
Bluhme. Dog maa jeg, for
ikke at misforstaas, tilføje, at
Bluhme heller ikke havde
fra-raadet Kongen at underskrive
den Forfatningslov, som
Ministeriet med en ubegribelig
Letsindighed, understøttet af en til
fanatisk Overdrivelse stimuleret
Nationalitetsfølelse, havde
mægtet at sætte igjennem, og som
en af den skandinaviske Idee
enten forført eller forblindet
Presse havde skildret som den
danske Selvstændigheds
Bolværk.
also my own opinion. That
I had reason to believe that
the utmost delay which would
be given would be one or two
days more, — that measures
were being taken to organize
a movement on a very
formidable scale to go to the Palace
and demand the constitution
(I had this from one of the
»Meneurs») that there was yet
time to turn the excitement to
a good account and by yielding
at once to derive advantage,
popularity, and strength from
the position. — This being
once effected, the King might
a little later call to His
counsels men of more moderate
opinions who would carry out
his own conciliatory views, and
thus it might be hoped that
the bad effects which the
present measure was calculated
to produce in some quarters
might by degrees be effaced. —
A council was summoned
for one o’clock, and His
Majesty, as I have already reported,
then affixed his signature to
the constitution. —
I trust I shall not appear to
Your Lordship to have gone
too far in my last conversation
with Monsieur David. If so,
I can only plead as my excuse
that I acted from the
conviction, which indeed must have
been shared by every one who
had a knowledge of the state
of public feeling here, that
things had gone too far to
make it possible for His
Majesty to suspend His signature
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