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* 33 - 15 - In the same year Vienna withdrew even more from the "beaten Magyars". In October l850 the so-called October-Diploma appeared, by which Hungary partly got its constitution again, but the Hungarian nobility was not satisfied with it. However, the Slovaks were able to manage themselves. Once again, it was Daxner, our most open political head, who called on his people to finally move to elect representatives of the Slovak people for the Congress. 2 On 6 June 1986, representatives of Slovakia gathered in large numbers in St. Mattin, about 3o0O people (Julius Botto gives in the life description Daxners, S.llo, 'an 6000 people) and touched a resolution that DaxNER had drafted; it was based on the "demand of the Slovak people" of St. Martin l848. The Assembly called in an adopted "Memorandum of the Slovak people to the country-men's parliament", "the personality of the Slovakians and the peculiarity of their language should be recognized by law and ensured so that this personality is legalized in the space it occupies as an ethnographic uniform mass under the name "Slovak environment"; in order to determine national and language rights according to the principle of full equality of the Hungarian nations; within the limits of the "environment" the Slovak language serves as an organ of public, school and church life in the other full law of the Magyar language in the high state offices; so that all other laws with the equal rights of the Netions In order to establish a Slovak legal academy and a Slovak language and literature chair at the Pest University, "(Vlček: History of Slovak Literature, St. Martin 1890 p. 195). The nobles Martin Szentiványi, Simon Révay's clan, and Josef Justh, Member of the Parliament, also participated in the meeting of St. Martin. but obviously only as an official, without a deeper naticnal interest, it soon became apparent that the main demand of the "Slovak environment" and the Slovak official language could not be enforced in Budapest or Vienna, and in the meantime the memorandum had only so much -16-