. The fascination of Switzerland. lves. So in 1802 Napoleon overlookedtheir former ingratitude and helped them again. This time the vassal cantons were freed, andthe total number grew to 19 states. A little laterthere was again the little matter of payment to beconsidered, and this time it was Vallais—Vallais,with its unsealed Matterhorn and unstemmedRhone, with moreover those two useful highwaysthe Passes of the Simplon and Great St. Bernard—which he exacted. Some good however he did. He stopped theinternal warfare which had been raging betweenthe cantons as a sort of echo of the Europeanstri
. The fascination of Switzerland. lves. So in 1802 Napoleon overlookedtheir former ingratitude and helped them again. This time the vassal cantons were freed, andthe total number grew to 19 states. A little laterthere was again the little matter of payment to beconsidered, and this time it was Vallais—Vallais,with its unsealed Matterhorn and unstemmedRhone, with moreover those two useful highwaysthe Passes of the Simplon and Great St. Bernard—which he exacted. Some good however he did. He stopped theinternal warfare which had been raging betweenthe cantons as a sort of echo of the Europeanstrife beyond, and he formed a standing arts of peace succeeded those of war, and thecantons busied themselves with building mills and13 THK CANTONS THE FASCINATION founding schools. After Napoleons fall quiveringEurope set herself to study her own map. Switzer-land was released from any tie to France, andwas recognized as an independent nation, whileVallais, Neuchatel, and Geneva were restored andadded to the League. 14. OF SWITZERLAND modern government CHAPTER III MODERN GOVERNMENT It was not to be supposed that these twenty-twocantons with their different races, different re-Hgions, and different speech—Teuton, Celt, Pro-testant, CathoHc, German, French, Italian, andRomonsch—could agree. In 1847 civil war brokeout between Catholics and Protestants ; but in1848 fear of foreign invasion brought internalpeace, and helped to weld together the opposingraces and creeds into the sturdy little nationwhich we regard as Swiss. All her citizens have the love of country intheir souls; all are trained to defend their coun-try, and most apparently nowadays put patriotismbefore creed. There is a lingering relic of theold days of creed hatred in some of the cantonswhere Catholic and Protestant live together. Onthe day before Good Friday in St. Gall theCatholics have a holiday ; not so the Protestantswho take Good Friday instead. According tocustom, the afternoon of the holiday
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