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11a , - 12 - The assembly of St. Nicholas had far-reaching effects. The government had Štúr , Hurban and Hodža prosecuted and proclaimed the right to stand throughout Slovakia, 'because indeed a national movement was shown, which was caused by the spirituality and the spread of declarations of consent ...'Hurban and Štír managed to cross the border, travel, but many others paid their national sentiments on the gallows, on 13 and 18 September. On October 21, 1848, the judge Martin Barton and the farmer Svatik in Senitz, on October 21 and 25, the young patriots Wilhelm Šulek and Karol Holuby, and the teacher Langsfeld in Kremnitz were hanged. (Julius Botto: Michal M. Hodža, p.36/7). Only by chance did the gallows Daxner and Francisci escape, otherwise the penitentiaries of Slovak patriots were overcrowded. Štúr and Hurban prepared the Slovak revolution in Vienna, Prague and South Slavia, we are passing over the closer relations of our leaders with Jelačič and Michal Obrenovič, with whom they negotiated above all on the joint revolutionary approach against the Magyars. Politically and nationally more interesting is the stay of Štúrs, Hurbans, Hodžas and Nosáks and others at the Slavic Congress in Prague, which opened on 2 June on Sophien Island. Although the Congress, which was prematurely interrupted as a result of the Pentecostal revolution storms, could not finish its work, it had a great significance because it approached the brothers who were separated by the separate written language and thus demonstrated the Slovak political question in front of the present Slavs ad Odalos. After serious private and official discussions, Palacký, Šafařík, Štúr, Hurban and others had the opportunity to gain insight into Austo-Hungarian Slavism. With regard to the Slavic reciprocal view, Kollár's position prevailed, but the formation of an Austrian state on the basis of national-territorial division stood in the way of Hungarian state law and, finally, the old Czech state law. The ideologues without political practice and experience, however, believed that the realization of a state could easily be carried out with good will, but the more experienced, Palacký and - 1 3 -