The government, here represented by an aristocrat, declared for the aristocracy. It put a memorandum before the Assembly demanding that it betray the peasant revolution, which had broken out all over Germany in March, to the aristocracy. The government is responsible for the consequences that the application of Patow's principles would have on the land. For Herr Patow wants the peasants to pay compensation for all the feudal exactions abolished, even the Laudemiums. On the other hand, all feudal commutations arrived at by agreement or judicial decision are final.
Rent banks are to be established, to throw sand into the eyes of the peasants.
If Herr Patow had his way, the feudal exactions would be eliminated under his law as little as they were under the old law of 1807. Memorandum on the Maintenance of Feudal Exactions Forever by Means of Their Commutation. The government is provoking a peasant war.