Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1879 — Discontent in Norway. [ARTICLE]

Discontent in Norway.

A stormy meeting was held in Christiana, Norway, one day last month, at which the writer, M. Bjornstene Bjornson, presided, its object being to protest against the union of Norway with Sweden. One measure proposed was the removal from the Norwegian flag of the emblem which signifies the union with Sweden, so that it might be a flag “pure and unsullied.” Unfortunately, the meeting was about equally divided upon the proposed measure, and, when M. Bjornson made a number of bitter and virulent attacks on the King of Sweden, some of his audience applauded and cheered, and the others hissed and groaned, while a mob outside created a most disgraceful disturbance.