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Manteuffel and the Central Authority
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Source: Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 8, p. 65;
First published: in Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 153, November 26, 1848.
First published: in Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 153, November 26, 1848.
Collection(s): Neue Rheinische Zeitung
Cologne, November 24. The Minister Manteuffel declared yesterday to the imperial commissioners at present in Berlin that the Prussian Government would not submit to the decision of the Frankfurt Assembly to form a popular Ministry [1] because this was an internal matter.
Hence Manteuffel agrees with us that the decision of the Frankfurt Assembly on the refusal to pay taxes is also null and void, because it concerns only an internal matter.
It is possible, of course, that the Brandenburg-Manteuffel Ministry will help to convert the Rhine Province into an external matter for Prussia.
- ↑ During the coup d'état in Prussia the Frankfurt National Assembly undertook to settle the conflict between the Prussian National Assembly and the Crown. For this purpose, first Bassermann (one of the liberal leaders) and then Simson and Hergenhahn went to Berlin as imperial commissioners. In mid-November the Frankfurt National Assembly adopted a decision calling on the Central Authority to help, through the imperial commissioners in Berlin, to form a Ministry which would enjoy the confidence of the country, that is a Ministry more acceptable to the Prussian bourgeoisie than the obviously counter-revolutionary Brandenburg-Manteuffel Ministry. However, this decision proved ineffective because the Frankfurt Assembly’s liberal majority openly disapproved of the campaign for refusal to pay taxes as a means of struggle against the coup d'état. The mediation of the imperial commissioners proved to be helpful to the counter-revolutionaries since it diverted the democratic forces in the German states from real support of the Prussian National Assembly in its struggle against the Brandenburg-Manteuffel Ministry