New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-28
GERMANY.

The second center of revolutionary ac-
ton was Berlin. And from what has been stated
in the foregoing papers, it may be guessed that
there this action was far from having that unanl-
nous supper. of almost all classes by which 1t
was accompanied in Vienna. In Prussia the
Bourge oise had been already involved IN actual
struggles with the Government, rupture had
been the result Of the United Diet > bour-
gcoio revolution was impending, aud that reyo-
luton might have been, in its first outbreak,
quite as unanimous as that OF Vienna, had 1t not
been for the Paris revolution Of February
That event precipitated everything, whle' at
the same time, II carried out under a uah-
ner totally different from that under which the
Pmssian Bourgeoisie was preparing 10 uely It's
Government The revolution OF feOrudIy up
set. in France, the very same sort OF government
which the Prussian Bourgeoisie were gong TO
set up in their own country The revolution Oh
February announced itself as revolution Oh 'he
working classes against the middle classes IL
proclaimed the downfall of mlddle-class govern
ment and the emancipation OF the WORKING man.
Now the Prussan Bourgeoisie had OF late had
quite enough of working-class agitation IN tnen
own country. After the first terror OF the
Sile.ian riots had passed away, they had even
tried to give this agitation turn IN their own
favor: but they always had retained saiutary
horror of revolutionary Socialism and Com-
munism and therefore, when they saw men al
the head ofthe Government in Paris whom they
considered as the most dangerous enemies oil
property order, religion, family, and oithe otner
inmates of the modern Bourgeois, they at once
experienced considerable cooling down OF their
own revolut ionary ardor They knew that the
moment must be seized, and that without the aid
of the working masses they would be defeated
and vet their courage failed them. Thus they
sided with the Government IN the hrst partiai
and provincial outbreaks, tried to keep the people
quiet in Berlin who during five days met IN
crowds before the royal palace to discuss the
news and ask for changes an the Government;
and when at last, after the news of the downfall
of Metternich, the King made some slight con-
cessions, the Bourgeoisie considered the revolu'
ton as completed, and went to thank his Majesty
for having fulfilled all the wishes of his people
But then followed the attack of the military on
the UaIIi.aurs, .iiu so, "'Ad the
defeat of Royalty Then everything was changed
the very working classes, which 1t had been the
tendency of the Bourgeoisie to keep IN the back
ground, had been pushed forward, had fought
and conquered and all at once were conscious
of their strength Restrictions of suffrage, of
the liberty of the press, of the right to sit on u-
res, of the right of MISREPRESENTATION that
would have been very agreeable to the
Bourgeoisie, because they would have touched
upon such classes only as were beneath it
now were no longer possible. The danger of
a repetition OF the Partisan scenes Of " an
srchy" was imminent. Before this danger ali
former differences disappeared. Against the
victorious working man, although he had not yet
uttered any specific demands for himself the
friends and the foes OF many years united, and
the alliance between the Bourgeoise and the
supporters of the overturned system was con-
cluded upon the very barrcadeS of Berlin. The
necessary concessions, but no more than was
unavoidable, were to be made a minority of the
opposition leaders OF the United Diet was to be
formed, and in return for IFS services IN saving
the Crown, it was to have the support OF all the
props of the old Government, the feudal aristoc-
racy, the bureaucracy, the army. These were
the conditions upon which Messrs Camphausen
and Hansemann undertook the formation OF
Cabinet.
Such was the dread evinced, by the new NM
listers of the aroused masses, that IN their eyes
every means was good if II only tended to
strengthen the shaken foundations Of authority.
They poor deluded wretches, thought every
danger of a restoration of the old system had
passed away: and thus they made use OF the
whole of the old state machinery for the purpose
OF restoring order" Not single 5ureaucrat
or military officer was dismissed not the slight
est change was made in the old bureaucratic
system OF administration. These precious con-
stitutonal and responsible ministers even re-
stored to their posts those functionaries whom
the people, in the first heat OF revolutionary ar
dor, had driven away on account o. their former
acts OF bureaucratic overbearing There was
nothing altered, in Prussia, but the persons of
the ministers even the ministerial stats in the
different departments were not touched upon
and all the constitutional placed hunters, who
had formed the chorus of the newly.elevated
rulers, snd who had expected their share of
power and office, were told 20 wart until restored
stability allowed changes to be operated in the
bureaucratic personnel which now were rot
without danger.
The King, chap-fallen In the highes, degree
after the Instruction Of the 18th Of March. very
soon found on; that he was quite as necessary
TO these /" liberal" ministers as they were 70 him
The throne had been spared by the Instruction;
the throne was the last existing obstacle to
" anarchy" the liberal middle class and its
leaders now IN the ministry, had therefore every
interest to keep on excellent terms with the
crown The King, and the reactionary camarilla
that surrounded him, were not slow in discover