Cologne, September 22. It has happened after all! The Government of the Prince of Prussia is in being and the counter-revolution
intends to risk the final decisive blow.?”

Read the following letter by a deputy:

“ Berlin, September 20, 10 p.m. We have just learned beyond doubt that an entirely
counter-revolutionary Government has been formed, namely” (then follows the list of
Ministers which we gave yesterday in accordance with the special edition of the
Zeitungs-Halle). ‘“‘At tomorrow’s session this same Government will read out a royal
message wherein the prospect of the disbandment of the Assembly will be held out. The
result of this is a declaration of permanence which will probably lead to a new and very
bloody revolution. All parties of the National Assembly are consulting permanently in
their usual premises. The population is very excited. Wrangel has held a military
review today. Everything seems to be in question!”

It has happened after all! The Crown seeks the protection of the
Uckermark grandees and the Uckermark grandees oppose the
revolutionary movement of the year 1848. The Don Quixotes of
Further Pomerania, these old warriors and debt-encumbered landed
proprietors, will finally have their opportunity to cleanse their rusty
blades in the blood of the agitators.**! The guards, crowned with the
cheap glory of Schleswig, are supposed to strike the decisive blow
against the revolution which intrudes upon the rights of the Crown,
which wants to prohibit the officers from plotting secretly and which
intends, by the implacable hand of Hansemann’s financial measures,
to take a terribly “bold dip’? into the already limp purse of the
Brandenburg junkers. The guards will take revenge for the

* An expression first used by Karl Mathy and Heinrich von Gagern in the
Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848; it became quickly popular.— Ed.

humiliation of March 18, disperse the Berlin Assembly and the
officers will ride down Unter den Linden over the corpses of the
revolutionaries. |

Go on! Forward with God for King and Fatherland!?