now in
part how things went at the Diet."

"Since then, it is your opinion, that my Lords ought to thrust me aside
and the like, I tell you, they are too pious for that; because they
know well that you first assailed me and so often, that I was obliged
on their account to write, for the preservation of God's Word, their
honor and my own. It seems to me, that your faith is but ill kept
toward my Lords and me; (forgive me, gracious Lords) though heretical
opinions are tolerated in the pulpits of several cantons, I must keep
silence in mine, and their honest people, when they do business among
you, are often and disgracefully abused, and there is no punishment or
redress."

"Finally, you say, if my Lords do not cast me off, you will take
occasion to make known at Zurich, before the city and the canton, what
you have suffered from them and me; to which I answer: If the Articles
of Confederation would permit, I would be willing that you, my Lords,
and I should freely explain how matters have been going, not only
before the communities of my Lords, but before all the people of the
entire Confederacy. But since this may not be, do you keep to the
Articles of Confederation and your own communities, and leave the
communities of my Lords in peace; for if you were to come before them,
there is no doubt they would give you in their simplicity, in all honor
and fairness, as good and earnest answers as my Lords themselves. In
regard to these things, gracious Lords, O that for God's sake you were
willing to go into yourselves and not always act in a passion!"

Of course, language of this kind was not just calculated to calm the
minds of his opponents, and could not but wound deeply the pride of the
Five Cantons, who were implacable enough without it. It appeared the
more intolerable to them, because they regarded themselves as
conquerors, yea if they could only agree, in a certain measure, the
second authors and founders of the Old Confederacy, that held fast to
the faith and customs of their ancestors. Nearly all the Confederate
deputies in Baden happened to belong also to the friends of the Old
Order, and particularly the ambassador from Bern, Caspar von Muelinen.
Their agreement in opinion gave assurance to the cantons, who now
undertook to publish the acts of the disputation. It is probable that
this was not done without the consent of the remaining deputies, with
the exception perhaps of Adelberg Meier. Leaving Basel out of vi