New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-24
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last compact In .ieinent,ry pliaanS ei Democracy.
Ga ti,c ether aapd, the larger Governments, aud
particularly the Pu,ssian Ministry, saw more and
more The mcon4paibi.ity of sHch an irregular eiec-
tive h>s,y With tl,c restored monarccal system OF
Germany, and Il they did not Mt once force iis DIS
.oht:on. il was only beranse the time had not yet
come and because Prussia hoped first to use II for
the f.rthering OF its own ambitions purposes
In the mean time. that poor Assembly itself fell
into greater and greater confusion It's depnta-
tions and commissaries had been treated with the
utmost contempt, both in Vienna and Berlin; one
of its members in spite of his parliamentary invio-
liability, had been executed in Vienna as common
rebel Its DEGREES were nowhere needed; they
were noticed at all BY the larger powers, 1t was
merely by protesting notes which disputed the au-
thority of the Assembly to pass laws and resoiu-
tions binding upon their governments. The Repre-
sentative of the Assembly, the Central Executive
power was involved in diplomatic squabbles with
almost all the cabinets of Germany, and in spite OF
all their efforts neither Assembly nor Central Gov
eminent could bring Austria or Prussia to state
their ultimate views, plans and demands. The As
sembIy at last commenced to see clear, at least so
far that it had allowed all power to slip out OF its
hands, that it was at the mercy of Austria and
Prussia, and that if it intended making federal
Constitution for Germany at all, it must set about
the thing at once and in good earnest. And many
of the yacillating members also saw clearly that
they had been egregiously duped by the govern
ments. But what were they, in their impotent
position, able to do nowl The only thing that
,o, hoVn hnpn
and decidedly to pass over into the popular camp;
but the success, even of that STEP was more than
doubtful and then, where in this helpless crowd
of undecided, short-sighted, selfconceited beings
who when the eternal noise of contradictory rl-
mors and diplomatic notes completely stunned
them, sought their only consolation and support
in the everlastingly repeated assurance that they
were the best, the greatest, the wscst men OF the
country, and that they alone could save Germany
where we say, among these poor creatures
whom single year of parliamentary life had turned
into complete idiots, where were the men for
prompt and decisive resolution, much less for en-
ergetc and consistent action
At last the Austrian Government threw off the
mask. In its Constitution of the 4th of March it
proclaimed Austria an indivisible monarchy, with
common finances, system of customs-duties OF
military establishments, thereby elacing every bar
rier and distinction between the German and nom
German provinces. This declaration was made in
the face of resolutions and articles Of the intended
federal Constitution, which had been already passed
by the Frankfort Assembly. 1t was the gauntlet
of war thrown down to it by Austria, and the poor
Assembly had no other choice but to take it up.
This it did with deal of clustering, but which
Austria in the consciousness of her power, and of
the utter nothingness of the Assembly, could well
afford to allow to pass. And this precious repre-
,entation, as it styled ITSELF of the German people,
in order to revenge itself for this insult on the
part of Austria, saw nothing better before it
than to throw itself, hands and feet tied, at
the feet of the Prussian Government. lncred-
ible as it would seem, it bent its knees before
the very ministers whom it had condemned as I'M
constitutional and anti-pOpular, and whose dismiss
sal it had in vain insisted upon. The details of
this disgraceul Transaction and the tragi-comical
events that followed, will form the subject of our
next. KARL MARX.
London April 1859.