Declaration

["Neue Rheinische Zeitung" No. 145, November 17, 1848]

Cologne, November 6. The *Kölnische Zeitung* in its issue of 16 Nov. <In the “N.Rh.Ztg.”: 15 Nov.> places the “Appeal of the Rhenish District Committee of Democrats” <See “Summons of the Democratic District Committee of the Rhine Province”> in a wholly fabricated connection with an alleged “assurance” sent by the extreme left of the Prussian National Assembly to the provinces regarding tax refusal. The undersigned have no knowledge of any news, spread by members of the extreme left, of a tax refusal already decided upon by the National Assembly.

Karl Marx Schneider II