A Denunciation

[“Neue Rheinische Zeitung” 
No. 229, February 23, 1849] 
* Cologne, February 22. In the Oberpostamts-Zeitung!??*), whose former editor was a paid agent of Guizot (cf. Taschereau’s “Revue rétrospective” 1295)) and an unpaid agent of Metternich—just as, indeed, the entire Thurn und Taxis postal service, this cancer-ridden national huckster institute that weighs on German industry, is at war with the railways, and whose continued existence after March is barely comprehensible and whose immediate destruction will be one of the first acts of the German constituent assembly that is shortly to be opened (the Assembly in St. Paul’s Church notoriously never was a constituent assembly)—has since the time of Joseph II never been anything other than an Austrian den of spies—in this imperial denunciation gazette belonging to the ex-prince of Thurn und Taxis, the responsible editor H. Malten (already recognisably depicted by the old “Rheinische Zeitung” [!?9%]) expresses himself as follows, while claiming to reprint the following Paris 

correspondence from a paper which we do not read [!”]:

“To the shame of the German name we must confess that it is especially Germans who carry on subversive activity among us on the grandest, not to say most impudent, scale. There exists here a special office of the Reds, from which all inflammatory articles against the order of human society that can be got hold of by any means whatever are sent with the utmost speed into the provinces. Not content with Germans taking part in this disreputable business for France: we also have them to thank for the fact that an accursed propaganda is incessantly over Germany its