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

assembly, which was 10 agree "iih the crown
upon new Constitution. The elections were
to be indirect, the mass Of voters elecing a
number Of electors, who then were to choose the
representative In spite o. all opposition, THIS
system OF double elections passed. The United
Diet was then asked for a loan Of twenty-five
millions OF dollars, opposed by the popular party,
but equally agreed to.
These acts of the ministry gave most rapid
DEVELOPMENT to the popular, or as Il now called
itself. the democratic party. This party, headed
by the petty trading and shopkeeping class, and
uniting under rs banner, IN the beginning OF the
revolution. the large majority OF the working
people, demanded direct and universal suffrage
the same as established IN France, single Lee
eislative Assembly, and full and open recognition
Of the revolution of the 18th March, as the base
OF the new governmental system The more
moderate faction would be satisfied with thus
democratized" monarchy, the mere advanced
demanded the ultimate establishment OF the he
puhlic. Both factions agreed in recognizing the
German National Assembly at Frankfort as the
supreme authority of the country, while the
Constitutionalists and Reac,ionists affected q
GREAT horror of the sovereignty OF this body,
which the profe ssed to consider as utterly revo-
lutiOnary
The independent movement OF the working
classes had, by the revolution, been broken up
for time The immediate wants and clrcum
stances of the movement were such as nor to al
low of any OF the specific demands OF the Prole'
tarlan party to be put in the foreground. In
fact. as long as the ground was not cleared Tor
the independent action OF the working men, as
long as direct and universal suffrage was not yet
established, as long as the 36 larger and smaller
States continued cut UP Germany into num-
berless moYsels what else could the Proletarlan
party do but watch the-tor them all-lmportant
movement of Paris, and struggle IN common
with the petty shopkeepers for the ATTAINMENT
of those rights which would allow them TO fight,
afterward their own battle
There were only three points, then, by which
the Proletaran party In Its political action essen
tally distinguished itself from the petty trading
class, or properly so-called democratic party.
firstly, in Judging differently the French move
ment, with regard TO which the democrats
attacked and the Proletarian Reyolutionists.
defended the extreme party in Paris; secondly,
in proclaiming the necessity Of establishing
German Republic, one and indivlsible, while the
very EXTREMIST ultras among the democrats only
dared to sigh for Federative Republic; and
thirdly, in showing upon every occasion, that
revolutionary boldness and readiness for action,
in which any party, headed by and composed
Of raIp ne
deficient.
The Proletarian, or really revolutionary party
succeeded only very gradually in withdrawing
the mass OF the working people from the lniu-
ence of the democrats. whose tail they formed
in the beginning Of the revolution. But IN due
time the INDIGESTION, weakness and cowardice
of the democratic leaders did the rest, and II may
now be said TO be one of the principal results OF
the last years commissions, that wherever the
working class is concentrated in anything like
considerable masses, they are entirely freed from
that democratic influence which led them into
an endless series of plumbers and misfortunes
during 1913 and ls49 But we had better not an
ticpate tho events of these two years viii give
as plenty of opportunities 10 show the democratic
gentlemen at work
The peasantry in Prussia, the same as IN Aus
tria but with less energy, ieudalism pressngupon
the whole, not quite so hard upon them here,
had profited by the resolution to free them
selves at once from all feudal shackles. But
here from the reasons stated before, the mid
die classes at once turned against them, their
oldest, their most indispensable allies; the demo-
Gratis, equally frightened with the Bourgeois by
what was called attacks upon private property,
failed equally to support them, and thus, after
three months emancipation, after bloody strug-
giles and military executions, particularly IN 81
lesia, feudaism was restored by the hands OF the,
until yesterday, an,ifeudal Bourgeolsle There
is not more damning fact to be brought against
them than this Similar treason against It's best
allies, against itself, never was commi'tedb by any
partv in history, and whatever humiliation and
chastisement may be in store for this mlddle-cass
party. it has deserved by this one act every NOR
sci of It, NAIL MARN'
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