"Neue Rheinische Zeitung" – The Vienna Correspondent of the "Kölnische Zeitung"

The Vienna Correspondent of the "Kölnische Zeitung"

["Neue Rheinische Zeitung" No. 225 of 18 February 1849]

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Cologne, 17 February. One riddle less in world history! Herr Schwanbeck, editor of the "Kölnische Zeitung", who simultaneously corresponds from Vienna under the same sign in the said "Kölnische Zeitung", has notoriously, under both firms, slandered the Magyars as long as possible, accused them of cowardice and infamy, not only beaten but repeatedly annihilated them, and dithyrambised the summary-court-martial entry of the entire army into the various towns and comitates of Hungary.

Herr Schwanbeck now solves the riddle himself; like Achilles, our Schwanheck can only heal himself the wounds which he has inflicted.

And the solution of the riddle? –
The fear of Welden. Hence the besmirching of the Viennese and Magyars, the miserable lies concerning the Austrian successes in arms, the fawning and flirting with Croats and Pandours.

For, says the famous Schwanbeck, for, says he:

"One was, after all, till now formally given the lie and honoured by Governor Baron Welden with the title of a
malicious knave
if one ventured to doubt the victorious progress of the imperial army at
all
points of the monarchy" (No. 41 <in the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung": No. 40> of the "Kölnische Zeitung").

Out of respect for Welden, the readers of the "Kölnische Zeitung" have had to be lied to and deceived for two months in the Vienna correspondences on the Hungarian war.

Goethe said with reference to
Pustkuchen:

"Yet the whale has its louse, so I must have mine, too."

The same can
Kossuth
say of
Schwanbeck
.