Cologne, May 3. We have pointed out a hundred times that in the 
coalition of Russia and Austria Herr von Hohenzollern and his 
Ministry are the “third party in the alliance”.* A hundred times 
the honest German citizen has indignantly rejected such an assertion. 

Very well then: it is now firmly established that one of the secret 
reasons for the dissolution of the Chambers was that, by a secret 
agreement with the Olmütz knyaz” and the orthodox supreme Tsar 
in St. Petersburg,‘ the Russians’ subordinate knyaz* in Sans-Souci*” 
has pledged his word to put 40,000 Prussians into Bohemia to keep 
the people there in subjection and as reserves against the Hungarians. This was spoken of openly even in the St. Paul’s Church.° It 
was impossible to persuade even the deputies of the Centre and part 
of those of the Right in Berlin to keep silent about it. They were 
therefore dispersed. 

But that is not all: the Berlin National-Zeitung reported from 
Berlin on May 1: 

We have just learned from a very reliable source: “Yesterday morning the 
Management Board of the Upper Silesian Railway received a telegram from the 
Minister of the Interior that 30,000 Russian soldiers would be transferred from 

Cracow by means of the Upper Silesian Railway (consequently, from Cracow 
via Mislowitz, Kosel, Ratibor, Oderberg) to Austria. The Board of the Upper Silesian 
Francis Joseph I.—The Russian word “knyaz” means “Prince” .— Ed. 
© Nicholas I.— Ed. 
© The German National Assembly met in the St. Paul’s Church at Frankfurt.— Ed. 

Railway is informed that the royal Prussian Government has no objection to this and 
it trusts that the Railway Board will not hinder this transport in any way.” 
The telegram was signed: von Manteuffel.* 

That then is what we have come to: The Government of the 
imperial Russian subordinate knyaz in Potsdam not only issues 
warrants for the arrest of Kossuth, Bem and Gérgey,” it even allows 
30,000 Russian police agents to be sent by rail through Prussian 
territory to Hungary—and what is more, it sends 40,000 Prussian 
soldiers to Bohemia in order to hold down a people which has been 
contemptuously trampled under foot and which is thirsting for 
revenge! 

Hear that, Rhinelanders! It is for this, therefore, that we are being 
subjected to the Russo-Prussian rule of violence, so that our sons and 
brothers, Rhinelanders like ourselves, shall be sent to Bohemia and 
perhaps to Hungary, in order that in the service of the Russian Tsar 
they will help to suppress the last people that is defending the 
revolution of 1848 arms in hand! 

It is for this we were betrayed to Prussia in 1815, so that the 
disgrace would fall on us, too, for having allowed the Russians, with 
bands playing and banners flying, to be marched against the Magyar 
revolutionary army through our territory, through a country joined 
with us into a single state. 

It was only by force that we became Prussian subjects and have 
remained Prussian subjects. We were never Prussians. But now, when 
we are being led against Hungary, when Russian robber bands are 
setting foot on Prussian territory, now we feel that we are Prussians, 
indeed we feel what a disgrace it is to bear the name of Prussian!