STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1805, sig. 109-5/33 (damaged)

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- 14- 09 the western European radicalism comes to the kkxhrkekx breakthrough. The "representatives" of the same people, which the aristocracy had promoted so strongly, decided not only the end of the territorial privileges but the abolition of the nobility as an institution in general. Thus a fundamental turn in its attitude is inserted. "There is an internal alienation between the supporting ideas of the nobility insignificantly of the deepening Czech nationalization. Interest in his social position pushes him more strongly to the dynasty on the "other side of the barricade to the kade". In the Czech movement, the Czech brothers, the Hussites, etc., are attracted by a democratic move. Thus, the nobility steps aside, the longer the more consciously the imperial conservative becomes. He remains distrustful of the popular tendencies, just as the landlord had remained lidsstrauen against the state politics. It is not until the second half of the 19th century that it is decided and imperially conservative without ulterior motives. When the government of Schmerling reopened the Landtage in 1861 on a new Rxix basis and thus the question of relations between Bohemian-minded nobility and Czech movement arises, a letter from the later leader of the state-law direction, Count Clam-Martinitz to Belcredi, indicates this new attitude. "May you be friendly, but as general as possible, as long as we will not be able to look at the people in the country day, there it will be evident whether and how far we can and can communicate with them, there perhaps the moderate elements can be moved towards common action." - 15 - -