English Translation

- 9 - 30 and the aristocracy associated with him hardly think away. They were therefore ideally dependent on the kingly power and the principles of monarchism. As far as they devoted themselves to the study of politics, they could not help but seek support in Vienna with the great lords, who were =cheinbar on the non-partisan general state and just point of view. That is why the Slovaks sent a deputation in the year l842 under the leadership of the old superindent Jozeffy to Vienna, where ". they demanded protection èn from the Magyarization and political oppression. Jozeffiy also later went to the Palatine. In 1844 another deputy went to Vienna where, however, one always received nice comfort but no protection. The struggle for the Slovak language and equality was conducted in assemblies where Kellár, Jozeffy, Hodža, Štur, Cochius and others spoke. Religious Revolution of the year l848/49. All this helped nothing, the Magyarization fever rose and culminated in the revolution 1848/49. The Magyars did not even consider Croatia. The terror on the street, in the provincial assemblies, in day-blowers, in parliament, in Protestant convents and in Catholic seminaries began, and many zealous clergymen suddenly began to preach in the Slovak churches. In schools, according to Kossuth's view, one was only allowed to teach in a gyar language. The deputy of Neura Tarnóczy explains publicly in the Press-burger Landtag that 300,oo0 souls of the area of Neutra looked after the sluggish Magyarization. The deputy Štúr was threatened alive. Nevertheless, Štúr turned sharply against Kossuth at the Landtag several times and held.Several meaningful speeches for the rise of the Urbaria and for the rights of the Slovak language, The best political head St,M.Daxner felt very well that the prerequisite for any political-cultural work in Slovakia rests on the emancipation of the subordinate people from the nobility. The abolition of the infree movement will enable its economic upliftment and will enable it to take care of a national independence. With a people in imper- fectness and spiritual darkness, it may be possible to continue one -- - 10 -