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I5a > .. -20 - The conditions in the Protestant Church were somewhat better, because the Protestant bishops did not have such full powers: ten had like the Catholic. The autonomous order of the Evan.gelian and the more specific national tradition protected the Protestant clergy from too great persecutions. Nevertheless, the history of this church is full of terrible deeds of the District and General Conventions, the exclusion of their origin of faithful students, the suspension of clergymen, etc. Bishop Haltik, this abominable appearance of renegadeness, remains for all time the pattern of a creepy nerd and. the weakness of character. An interesting. Appearance in the Magyar state life are the judges and the courts. Not only in political, but often also in non-political disputes, for the Slovaks the word Ciceros was applied: "judices nullos habere", hardly any-where and at some point as partisan and' casusistic as in Hungary, the Mugyan judges changed the "Losung "salus rei publicae" into the slogan "sallus' Hungarorum subdicione subiunctos imperioque Slavos tenentium." I recommend the study of the book "The Political Process of Neutra" by Dr. Julius Markovič (St, Martin a.T. 1903), also the book "Der'Rösenberg Prozess" by Hurban-Vajanský (St.Martin a. T. l906), the fiches of Scotus Viator "The Naticnalities Question in Hungary" (Brown 1903) and "Hungarian Elections" (Leipzig 19l2) as well as countless newspaper reports on our political processes from the year l848 to the overthrow, It would be worthwhile to collect all the accessible material and to process it scientifically, in order to warn the judges, to judge it so unfreely, the Rumans and the Croats also have much evidence for the unjust magyar justice. The political processes against the Slovaks can not be grasped at once statistically, Only the larger and more interesting processes I tried to put together in the "Sloyenský Obzor" (Slovak Rundschau) year 1907, statically, I passed the time before l898, d,i, the big processes M. Hurbans and Hürban - Vajanskýs, and significant it is that it is except for a spa - 21 -