The Prince of Prussia (afterwards Emperor William I). From the lithograph by Friedrich Jentzen, about 1840

The Prince of Prussia (afterwards Emperor William I). From the lithograph by Friedrich Jentzen, about 1840
Identifier: historyofallnati18wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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eim toDurlach; but as they were incessantly pressed by Hirschfeld fromthe Rhine, by von der Groben from the Neckar, and by Peucker fromthe Murg, flight to the l31ack Forest became general. Thence theleaders, Avith a large portion of the material, made their escape intoSwitzerland. Meantime, in ^Mannheim the dragoons had set on foota counter revolution. Rastatt submitted on July 23; its defender,von Tiedemann, the Saxon von Triitzschler, and others atoned withtheir lives. The poet, G. Kinkel, sentenced to the house of correc-tion, was liberated by the bold stratagem of Carl Schurg iji the fol-lowing year. The entliusiastic movement of the German people for the erec-tion of a national state had wretchedly failed. It was of necessitya failure: for the indefiniteness as to object and means, the strife ofdynasties, and the separatist spirit of the several populations, the in-extricable relation to Austria and the widely spread ill-will to CAUSES OF THE FAILURE OF THE NATIOXAL MOVEMENT. 385
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Vui. 76.—Tlie Prince of Prussia (afterward Knipuror W iili;im I.). From the litho-graph by F. Jentzen ; original paintiug, about 1840, by W. Temite (17bO-lS7l).(Masonic emblems on the table.) Prussia, the political inexperience of the leaders, and the pirty spiritof the democracy, and in addition to all this the ;)ersonality ofFrederick William I\., rendered the attainment of the ohject im-possible. I>ut Avith tills experience should be immcdiatily coii- V(.t. .wrrr.—25 386 THE FAILURE OF CONSTITUTION-MAKING IN GERMANY. nected another, — viz., the governments, although they expresslyrecognized and even loudly declared the justice of the demand fornational unity, were but little prepared to effect it. The king ofPrussia, indeed, spoke strongly enough. The proclamation in^^hich on jNlay 15 he summoned his people to arms in order in sucha crisis to defend Germany against internal and external foes, wasaccompanied with the announcement, that with the larger Germanstates that were