Cologne, May 12. In November of last year, after the dispersal of 
the people’s representatives, the Potsdam member of the Trinity, 
blessed by divine grace and the state of siege,? imposed a Constitution which was to be revised by the Chambers soon to be convened. 
As we know, the new representatives of the people suffered a fate 
similar to that of the old ones; the latter were dispersed by Wrangel’s 
bayonets, the former received from Manteuffel a simple little notice 
of dissolution,©° ordering them to go home. That put an end, too, 
to the revision of the Constitution. 

Thus the Christian-Germanic sovereign and his accomplices, the 
whole host of lay-abouts, parasites and vampires sucking the blood of 
the people, whether of high-born lineage or without ancestry, 
whether decorated with orders or undecorated, have acquired free 
scope for planting whatever kind of fruit they like. 

In November of last year, the royalty, bureaucracy and junkers 
were still compelled to use various hypocritical statements and to 
accept articles of the Constitution which seemed very liberal. The 
November Constitution had to be framed in a way that would make it 
possible to ensnare the numerically large, stupid part of the so-called 
“Prussian people”. 

Now all such subtle diplomatic considerations have become 
superfluous. Is not brother-in-law Nicholas already on German soil 
with 20,000 men? Has not Dresden been demolished by artillery 
shelling? Does there not exist the closest alliance of Prussia with the 
cowardly fugitive in K6nigstein, with imperial Max in Munich,” 

* Frederick William IV.— Ed. 

with the bulldog Ernest Augustus of Hanover, with the whole 
counter-revolutionary gang inside and outside Germany? 

Certainly, this moment has been used by the Hohenzollern to the 
best advantage. He had a new Constitution drawn up for his 
“beloved” subjects, and he sanctioned and imposed it in Charlottenburg on May 10. 

The latest royal-Prussian Constitution, the only one sincerely intended, 
which also has the advantage over the November Constitution of 

consisting of only seventeen paragraphs, reads as follows:....*