Cologne, October 13. When the Camphausen Government fell we 
said: 

“The Camphausen Government has covered the counter- 
revolution with its liberal-bourgeois cloak. The counter-revolution 
now feels strong enough to shake off this irksome mask. It is possible 
that the Government of March 30 will be followed for a few days by 
some untenable Government of the Left Centre (Hansemann). Its real 
successor will be the Government of the Prince of Prussia.” (Neue 
Rheinische Zeitung No. 23, June 23.) 

And in fact the Government of Pfuel (of Neufchatel) followed the 
Hansemann Government. 

The Pfuel Government handles constitutional phrases in the same 
way as the Frankfurt Central Authority treats “German unification”. 
If we compare the corpus delicti, the real body of the Government, 
with its echo, its constitutional declarations, appeasings, mediations 
and agreements in the Berlin Assembly, we can only use Falstaff’s 
phrase: 

“Lord, lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! ioe 

The Pfuel Government can only be followed by a Government of the 
revolution. 

* See this volume, p. 107.— Ed. 
P Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part Two, Act III, Scene 2.— Ed.