Cologne, May 2. It is with especial satisfaction that we inform our 
readers that the meeting of the representatives of municipal councils 
of the Rhine Province convened by the praiseworthy Cologne 
municipal council has been prohibited by a simple government 
order.2% The “good citizens”, who felt so “comfortable” when 
meetings of democrats were prohibited in September,” can now 
offer thanks to their lords and masters. In September 1848 the 
democrats’ right of assembly was destroyed at least by the respectable 
violence of the state of siege; the Cologne municipal council’s right of 
assembly, on the other hand, has met its end by a kick at a time when 
the legal basis is in finest flower. 


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