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"" - 17 - VS disarm the Slovaks, the South Slavs and the Romanians and temporarily also appease the criticism of foreign countries. In the so-called nationalities law, certain autonomous linguistic, association, school and church rights were granted to non-magyars, but the law was so stylized and more detailed provisions were never issued to prevent in reality the most angry Magyarization in the least. Marko Daxner was one of the first to see through this deceptive game of the magyan aristocrats. "Through this murderous doctrine and fiction," he writes in the "Budapest reference, "the magyar politicians set up the alternative that either the non-magyaric peoples should be delivered to this fatherland and magyariized, or that this father country must disintegrate into so many countries as it embraces peoples who have a right to live." (Julius Botto: Life description Daxner, p.ll9). In fact, this law, which apparently guaranteed the Slovaks the right to use the mother tongue in the county assemblies, 'in the middle and lower schools, in churches and associations, the basis of a system of denationalization, as the world has not seen it, and this law was reprimanded by the Magyars before the world and for a long time even deceived Scotus Viator himself and many other English, French, and even German politicians. In vain the Slovaks relied on the king's promises, on laws, law and humanity, In the years l874/5 the ministry lifted all Slovak cultural institutions and Koloman Tisza spoke the arrogant words: 'Minden áron buktatni és összetiporni,' The Slovaks felt the catastrophe that had affected them in full, and in their suffering and impotence they either withdrew from national and far from all political work, or sought in Art. Dr. M. Hurban's support with the blood brothers. Hursan published the literary Slovak and in 1876 began to release his "Nitra" in Czech again, as he saw the absolute impossibility of asserting himself against the amazing official terror. In the elections, the so-called passivity was maintained in accordance with the other non-Magyar nationalities, however, neither helped. Hurbans - 18 -