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|551| and spirit. He declares that the estates should be concerned not with the old-Württemberg but with a good constitution, not with an empty formal right but with the matter, and takes up, reasonably, not some disconnected fragments but the essential principles on which it depends. The assembly found itself surprised at a tone so foreign to its fixed ideas as well as to its eternal self-praise and to the praise of all the newspapers. That Herr Gleich’s courage fared ill at the hands of the assembly has already been cited above; this voice died away in the wilderness, and it was demonstrated to him by half a dozen essays that his motion went to “enter upon the royal resolution and not, as it were, to throw away the King’s offers, in part acceptable”. – Herr Gleich, however, vanishes from now on from the assembly, without any explanation of his departure emerging from the minutes, and later another representative of Aalen appears. It belongs, however, in general to the informalities of the assembly that members lay down their place as deputies and others step forward in their place, without its being clear from what formal authorisation the one and the other happens. – With regard to Herr Gleich one reads only after a year and a day, in a sitting, the obscure utterance of a member cited, who reminded another deputy, who deviated from the opinion of the majority, by way of warning of the fate which Herr Gleich had had.
With the motion of Herr Gleich the assembly rejected the position to which the royal resolutions had opened the way for it, the position of declaring an agreement which existed on very essential points and thereby of laying a firm basis for further negotiation. It did not discuss the materials themselves, nor which of the royal resolutions were acceptable in their content and
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