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dismissed with silent indignation, while two other
9mth.rns LAWYER Metz from Darustadt, ard old

dismissed with silent indigestion, while two other
Sou,berps. lawyer Metz from Darmstadt, ard old
Welcksr expatisted upon Won Holders political
principIes.A Metz considered it fundamental
axiom 10 proceed from, that the thirty millions oil
"otber" iiermsns ought 70 attract 70 themselves
the .iebt millions of German Austrlans. As 20 the
foreign uationslites,' subject 10 the Austrian
crown. be did not care BIZ OF straw for them.
What he wanted ard he put even motion in that
sense. wss that the Elsensch pre- gramme should be
enlarged by tWo amendments, the one relating -
German Austria. the other adding the demand of
liberty 70 tuat Of unity. The liberty as understood
by Nj Metz vas % consist in the proclamation OF
the Fundamental Rghn, (ETundreehie) as voted
by the German NatOna Assembly Of las. Herr
Metz would take upon himself TO openly tell the
Gotha men that If Southern Germany was not only
Represented 10 this Congress, but very numerous,
too such hsd only been the case on the suppOsilon
of be amendments 81 the Eisensch programme be-
ing pied. The Eisensch programme, such az
It stold, meant nothing but ''OermaDy 70 the
Msn and, for his part be would never acqAesce
nor work for such 8 miserable purpose. Old
We cler. the eS hero of Badish liberalism also in
weighed against the Eise9aeh programme. The
Prov. loual leadership of Prussia would never De
suffered b. Austria and Bavaria; and, as the old in
corrieble optimst added Austria, ss well az
Prussia, was now inclined To accept re-
form Of the " confederation" As 10 the
conf, derstion itself It would never be yielded up
BY the small German princes. The party which
had put forth the Eisenach programme was, in us
opinion altogether insulated, being alike opposed
by the clerical party, the feudsl party by Austria
and Bavaria by the small German princes, by the
ntpa'hles Of the southern tribes, and the suspl-
cions Of the southern liberals quite apart from the
circumstance that the foreign powers were sure TO
battle its efforts. Save a very few exceptions, the
southern Germans seemed divided into two parts
~ ATo1sl hu fua ~ hpr
willing to acknowledge its leadership, under the
(impOssible) conditions put by lawyer Metz.
certain Reyscher also Of southern extraction. alluded
10 the offer Of the imperial crown rendered to the
King Of Prussia in l-49, and declined By the King
in manner by no means complimentary to his
well.wisbers of the German National Assembly"
Reyscher went somewhat further by stating thst
the recent answer of the Prnce Regent to the
Stettin petitioners seemed 10 forebode that the
southern liberals if they again compromised them
selves pour ie R0l dc PrusSe, were likely to incur
similar disgrace.
During tie whole course Of these debates, the
northern missionaries of the Gotta party, except
the above mentioned Hanover advocates, were OBJ
serving rather passive attitudes. However, at the
END OF the meeting, all motions amendments, and
programmes were dropped altogether; the only
palpsbe result Of the preliminary debates being the
election of commission enjoined TO draw up, over
night the materials of discussion for the following
day. The German men" were, Of course, aware
that the celebrated "Comte de Sslut Public had
performed its greatest exploits in the dark of the
night. The commission worked WELL indeed
On the Eth Of September, il proposed to the
assembly of" Germa1 me0, resolution TO this
effect that there be formed q - Patriotic Assoca-
" ton which acknowledging as fat aecomph the
existence of national party, whose formation had
''bet already aspred TO at klsenach and Hanover,
" should try 10 sgitste, principally through the
press, for the patriotic purposes of that party.
The Association should elect a d" Commission, con-
" sisting of twelve persons" and forming, so to
say, " the Executive of the Association. That
Commission was TO reside at Frankfort. The ques
ton being put by some Bayaran barbarian, whe
Their this q resolution" sigufed an acceptance by
the German men" Of the Esenach programme;
il was agreed that this point might be left unset
ted and everybody might stick to bis own"r eserca-
ito ment0tiS" Another " German man." sMecken.
bureh citizen, thought the whole assembly should
unanimously accept the resolution since it i'm
Piled neither principle nor action, but would prove
COED fun, inasmuch as the German police would be
put to a trial by the very existence Of "cOmmis-
sion pretending to act in the pane Of a Irrational
party Consequently, the commission was voted
and elected. Some days later the Frankfort police,
as the Mekienbpger hsd foreseen, refused the
Frankfort hospitality TO the relic Of the Assembly
of the German men," and herewith the farce
seems to have drawn to its proper end.