L' Allemagne économique ou histoire du Zollverein Allemand

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Identifikator:: 832279064

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-64432

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Worms, Émile

Title:: L' Allemagne économique ou histoire du Zollverein Allemand

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Ainé

Year of publication:: 1874

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 631 S)

Collection:: Economics Books

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46 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. State. With several other influential citizens of that town, he formed a committee of resistance, and issued proclamations calling on the people to collect money and arms in order to oppose the government In November, 1848, when General Drigalski proclaimed a state of siege in Dusseldorf, he was arrested along with Cantador, head of the citizen guard, and tried for having instigated civil war. It was not until the 3rd of May, 1849, that he appeared before the Court of Assizes, when he defended himself with a boldness and an eloquence that made a deep impression upon the jury. He fearlessly invoked the principle of the French Revolution, the sovereignty of the people. “ I have neither the desire nor the right to be acquitted,” he exclaimed, “ unless you admit a resort to arms as the right and duty of the people.” Like Robespierre, he scorched with his burning irony the partisans of “passive resistance.” “ That is the act of men who feel clearly the duty of resistance, but at the same time are too cowardly to imperil their lives in the matter. The crown conflscates the liberties of the entire nation, and what does the National Assembly of Prussia decree? Its displeasure I It is impossible to under stand how an assembly composed of the people’s representa tives can descend to such puerilities.” He was acquitted at the Assizes, but was prosecuted in the police court for resistance to the police, and condemned to six months’ imprisonment. He employed the time in going deeply into social questions. Almost every evening a work man named Kichniawy used to come, after his day’s work, and talk with him on these subjects till far into the night. When liberated, he threw himself eagerly into the study of the epoch of the Reformation in Germany. He wished to un derstand how it was that the religious wars had weakened his country by dividing it, and thus to discover the best means of reconstituting its unity. There resulted from these studies a drama entitled Franz von Sickingen, mediocre as far as literary merit goes, but curious as a political essay. He there unfolds the idea, afterwards reproduced by Prince Bismarck, that great historical changes are always accomplished by “ fire and sword.” He was a fanatic on the subject of German unity.

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