d 185. London, 1860.

[3] Including Bruno Bauer, Bayard Taylor, Ripley, and many of the
Brook Farmers. The editor was Horace Greeley.

CONTENTS

Page

NOTE BY THE EDITOR 3

I. GERMANY AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE
REVOLUTION 13

II. THE PRUSSIAN STATE 28

III. THE OTHER GERMAN STATES 44

IV. AUSTRIA 52

V. THE VIENNA INSURRECTION 62

VI. THE BERLIN INSURRECTION 68

VII. THE FRANKFORT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY 76

VIII. POLES, TSCHECHS, AND GERMANS 84

IX. PANSLAVISM; THE SCHLESWIG WAR 91

X. THE PARIS RISING; THE FRANKFORT
ASSEMBLY 98

XI. THE VIENNA INSURRECTION 105

XII. THE STORMING OF VIENNA: THE
BETRAYAL OF VIENNA 114

XIII. THE PRUSSIAN ASSEMBLY: THE NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY 128

XIV. THE RESTORATION OF ORDER: DIET
AND CHAMBER 136

XV. THE TRIUMPH OF PRUSSIA 144

XVI. THE ASSEMBLY AND THE GOVERNMENTS 151

XVII. INSURRECTION 158

XVIII. PETTY TRADERS 166

XIX. THE CLOSE OF THE INSURRECTION 174

XX. THE LATE TRIAL AT COLOGNE 183

REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION

I.

GERMANY AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE REVOLUTION.

OCTOBER 25, 1851.

The first act of the revolutionary drama on the continent of Europe
has closed. The "powers that were" before the hurricane of 1848 are
again the "powers that be," and the more or less popular rulers of a
day, provisional governors, triumvirs, dictators, with their tail of
representatives, civil commissioners, military commissioners,
prefects, judges, generals, officers, and soldiers, are thrown upon
foreign shores, and "transported beyond the seas" to England or
America, there to form new governments _in partibus infidelium_,
European committees, central committees, national committees, and to
announce their advent with proclamations quite as solemn as those of
any less imaginary po