English Translation

30a E U - 10 - step-by-step policy. Kossuth himself felt this, too, but he fluctuated for a long time in the question of the abolition of the Urbaria, because he feared that the liberation of the peasantry and the working class, alongside the ma- gyars, would also create a Slovak, Romanian, Serbian and German nation and would thwart the aspirations of magvarism for supremacy over all of Hungary. He would have preferred to liberate only the Magyarian peasantry, but he did not dare to come before the European public with such an idea. Acsády acknowledges that only Štúr was sincerely and energetically committed to the abolition of the mastery already in the year l847, when Kossuth still held the stake for the nobles. At the end of 1 847, Daxner put together a draft on the position of the city council of Tisovec, which was to become the basis of a political progranm of Slovakia. The draft consisted of three points: 1.) Repeal of the patrimonial obligations and liberation of the people from the aristocracy. 2.) Creation of common excuses on the basis of popular representation, so that each community would be represented as the first moral unity in the state life by a certain number of representatives in the county assembly. 3.) Expansion and acceptance of the popular language as official language in the County. (Botto: Life description St.M.Daxners, p.33). The March laws made the programa partially indiscriminate, but by Decree No. 16/l848 the Hungarian language became the only official language, which led the leading Slovak men to resist the possibility of convoking this law, popular and national assemblies. Daxner and Francisci took the initiative and personally issued invitations to the big popular announcement on 28 March in Lipt, St. Nicholas, where the national association "Tatrin" already worked. Here the demands of the people were expressed in 6 points: democratization of the county committees, Slovak negotiating language, Slovak language in courts, parents and school lessons, democratic change of the state election right. - 11 ~