The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-17
Our GERMAN correspondence.
STUTTGART, July "a, l84S.

Our GERMAN correspondence.
STUTTGART, July "a, 1S4S
The Ne,c Government of Germany
Our new Reichsverweser," he executive of
the provisional government,) Archduke John, of
Austria, has at length. after vast deal of trouble,
and by the aid of the interchangeable president of the
National Parliament, Won Gagern, succeeded in
drumming up sort of cabinet for the future 60
vernment of the glorious German empire-glori-
Gus, indeed, if we are to take the word of the
Rcichsverweser or his ministers for it And OH how
glorious (your humble correspondent am a Ger
man by BIRTH and take pride in acknowledging that
belong to the nation that once produced Herman
the Cherusker who beat back the invading Romans
from the German soil, after they had conquered all
the world that produced Goethe, Schiller-glowng
patriots and apostles of berty-who trembled not to
proclaim the rights of man to the tyraHts on the
throne but my pride is fast being humbled, in
viewing the events Of the last few months. Just
emerged from universal revolution whose offspring
the is this body creates for the governme
Of the glorious and nimous' German empire
an executive officer, entirely independent and ire
spoDsible not only of the sovereign people, but also
OF the sovereign National Assembly, thus giving
sovereignty with vengeance more, indeed than
the people bargained for. We are much better off
than before the outbreak of the troubles March,
Zone can hardly call them a revolution now y the
we had but one sovereign master, the bundesfag of
happy memory but out Of its ashes have arisen two
equally sovereign thus eclipsing the tabled pho nix
whose remains can but produce one bird at best
How these two sovereign machines will work together
the future must show thing, however, is certain
viz we are to be blessed with quite original Of
cabinet ministers Archd9ke John seemed to have
been in great quandary, when appointing his minis
ters Camphausen, the ex minister of Prussia his
first choice and he nominated him president of the
cabinet. This Camphausen. whose inability Q had
nearly said imDecility) whose waverng of mind
and want Of energy had compelled him to resign his
seat in the Prussan cabinet this man who was re-
and daCie acfio in
emergencies by the inferior State, was become the
leading member of the cabinet of the glorious empire
fortunately however, Out suppose very detrimen.
tally to the glory'' of the government the
minister either too tmid accept the office too
in regard to the interests of the people,
to force himself into their service he declined the prof
fer' honor-a new cause of trouble to the ustrious
Archduke. He mustered the whole list of public
that occurred to him-Beckerath, Mathy, Duckwitz,
Hergenhahn, Wydenbrugk-none of these would do
weighty objections to each and all of them rendered
them unavailable At last after President Won Gaeern
put his shoulder to the wheel the laboring mountain
brought forth the beautiful (not mouse, but
thing very similsr) MISUNDERSTANDING, Heck
scherand Pewker.
Schmerling is an Austrian, and little known,
even by his countrymen (you Americans perhaps,
ferent nationaties and each calls only the cti-
zens Of his State though it contain but in
habtants, his countrymen), until he was appointed
President of the old Bundestag The establishment Of
the people will not be small when they told that
this Schmerling appointed Minister Of the Inte-
rior and Foreign Affairs and that he declared when
his appointment made known to him, after gen.
teelypulling out nice white pocket kerchef and de-
ositing therein, with some audible ceremony,
he would sacrifice himself wholly for the full and per-
feet liberty; that sedenia and sacrifice in the srug
gle for liberty, have always been his aim and would
ever be his sole object Liberty, full liberty Order,
perfect order Only by means Of liberty and order,
the German nation may be made happy. Well, this
siders liberty and order Over the guard. houses and
police prisons of Louis Philippe the device LiJere
Ordre Pubhque" painted in great letters. Proba
like liberty" and with similar public order
The second member Of the cabinet is Hekscher, from
Hamburg. He was member Of the celebrated Com
mittee OF FIFTY and belonged to the extreme right;
but in the National Parliament, being embittered by
the memorial of Lepel in the Bundestag he at first,
took sides with the left until the vote upon the pro-
visonal central power and the base and unmanly
means he made of to defeat the measures of the
opposition in the Parliament, showed him in his true
coors again. The Deutsche Reichsseitung contains
the following humorous sketch of this gentleman
Hecksher is in favor of the untrameled sovereignty
Of the people, but-he will not act without the
ton of the princess he wishes unanimty in the Ma.
tional Parliament but-he does all in his power to
createidssension and defeat Cancellation in regard
to the vote upon the central power, and his amend
mehts were calculated to difuse feelings of the
verest animosty; he wishes to vindcate the honor
and glory of the German nation but-he disputes the
right of the Germans Schleswig and its union with
Holstein is not sanctioned by him; he Is q German
but-he is also citizen of Hamburg. Heckscher is
republican in principle, but-he is in favor of consti
tutonal monarchy; he wishes the central power to
emanate solely from the National Parliament, but--he
demands that the princes nominate the Reichsverwe-
In short, Heckscher has all sorts of principles,
but-he always carries out the contraries of Them
1t excited general astonishment when the President
of the Parliament appointed this man. who had thrown
brand into the peaceful Assembly at Frankfort
by his violent and measured attack upon the rights
Of the minority and by refusal to yield to the
orty himself to the committee that to apprse his
Highness the Archduke John of his election to the
office Of Reichsverweser. But this astonishment
greatly increased when it known that he ap
pointed cabinet minister, probably to repay the SER
vices rendered the State in giving glowing account
of the many dishes and plates the meats and Wines
the white clad virgins and smiling matrons the firing
of cannons and ringing Of BELLS and other manifesto
tons of JOY with which the committee greeted
their way to Vienna. This was, indeed thought sur
prising; but age to be the age Of impossible
ties. Minister Heckscher will probably give us ad-
mnistration Of justice In principle, but-the old po-
MIR Pewker, the third minister is yet, very little
known and. consequently little is said of him These
all the ministers that his Vghness the Archduke
Reichsverweser could drum up; the balance of the
cabinet will be completed his return from Vienna,
Where his Hghnesss presence was necessary to open
the Austrian Reichstag being de aco the Emperor of
Austria, as a substitute of his Imperial Highness Il
believe IT is necessary to say Majesty Emperor Fran
els who is not quite well just 1t remains to be
seen how far these gentlemen will carry out the prnci
pies OF the revolutions fair specimen Of their future
conduct however, Is the circumstance that in Stuff
CART, Heidelberg and numerous other places, the de-
mociatic clubs formed under the soemnly warra ted
right Of meeting and right Of free discussion, i'm
mediatey after the revolution have been dissolved by
royal edcts without meeting with any aid or protec-
ton from the cabinet ministers. This violent anti
democratic, not to say anti republican (the idea of a
come 10 be quite ridicuous) measure, L. thus
ed by the Reicheverweser and his cabinet who were
appointed by the sovereign to
disputed "sovereignty,r OF the people We live, in
deed in glorious time, and In glorious country
Liberty Of speech and the right of association, are
cooiy suppressed b. the petty governmental and the
NJ fat Aredm mo ~ n