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
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ment on the part of the League. This sober proposition wasfar less attractive to all than the elevated language in which thepoet Uhland spoke of Austria as a young eagle bearing the freshwounds of the conflicts of March and May, and approaching them 1 Explanation of Plate XXIV. A scssiou of the German National Assembly at Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1848.From the lithograph by E. C. May ; original drawing by F. Bamberger. Under the national eagle is the president, H. von Gagern, with the two vice-presi-dents, von Soiron and von Adrian, and two secretaries. Before the presidents deskis the speakers tribune ; in front of this the table of the stenographers ; at the sides,those of the secretaries. In the first row of the audience, between the pillars andnext the presidents desk, are the seats of the journalists; behind these are reservedseats, — at the right for ladies, at the left for gentlemen; next, behind the second andthird pillars at the left, sits the diplomatic corps. X X wh < a.
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AUSTRIA AND TUE NATIONAL ASSEMIiLY. 373 in order to establish the confederacy of freedom; and demanded forher that she remain in Germany. Gagern witluliew his luirortiiuatoproposal (October 28), and the final determiiiati(jn on this point wasprovisionally deferred. The deputies undert(jok, therefore, the fur-ther discnssion of a constitution, with respect to whose first and mostessential fundamental principle complete ol)scurity still prevailed. The \ienna statesmen well understood that (ierman unity im-plied not merely the loss of Austrias former inHuence in Germany,but even a peril to the existence of the imperial state. If the Aus-trian government had arranged for elections to the German parlia-ment, this was not done in order, in an upright and honorable s()irit,to participate in the constitution-maldng, but for the purpose of see-ing to it that nothing should there occur to the disadvantage ofAustria. Her government made the explicit declaration that it didnot consider itself bou

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