100:, thereupon sent an imperial commissioner, Dr. Eisenstuck, to the Palatinate with the instruction âto take in the name of the imperial power all measures necessary for the restoration of the laws in that country,â and especially to see to it that some of the resolutions adopted by the âCommittee for the Defense of the Countryâ be rescinded. The imperial commissioner, after due investigation, declared those resolutions to be invalid, but he recognized the âCommittee for the Defense of the Countryâ and for the execution of the national constitution as fully competent to organize an armed power and to swear in the members thereof to obey the national constitution, and in case of necessity to defend that constitution by independent action against all attacks by force. With this, of course, Archduke Johann, who had sent him, was not pleased.â
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86:(3 volumes), New York: The McClure Company, 1907. Schurz mentions Eisenstuck in Volume One (pp. 182â183): âThe terrible confusion which the refusal of the king of Prussia to accept the imperial crown under the national constitution had brought upon all Germany came now to light in an almost grotesque manner. As already mentioned, the
58:) when it emigrated to Stuttgart. Before its forced dispersal, he resigned and went to Belgium. After a long absence, he returned home and was a representative in Saxony's parliament where his name and decisive stance lent prestige to the thinly populated liberal ranks. He died as director of a thread-spinning factory.
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