"Neue Rheinische Zeitung" – Manteuffel and the Central Authority

Manteuffel and the Central Authority

["Neue Rheinische Zeitung" No. 153, November 26, 1848]

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Cologne, November 24.
Yesterday Minister Manteuffel declared to the Reich commissioners <Simson and Hergenhan> who are present in Berlin that the Prussian government will not submit to the resolution of the Frankfurt Assembly to form a popular ministry, because it was a matter of an internal affair.

Manteuffel thus agrees with us that the Frankfurt Assembly’s resolution on the refusal of taxes is also null and void <See “The Frankfurt Assembly”>, because it concerns only an internal affair.

It would certainly be possible, however, that the Brandenburg-Manteuffel ministry might help to turn the Rhine Province into a foreign affair for Prussia.