Note 30 — CRIMES OF THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA AGAINST MANKIND. (continued 6)

“We have state prisoners,” says Birányi, “who, victims of an arbitrary act of power, have been pining for years in horrible dungeons. It would have been shameful to have forgotten them in the list of the national demands.”—Pesti Forradalom, Pest, 1848.

“An inconsiderate word, or a single passage in a perhaps prudently written book, torn out of its connection, and invested with an arbitrary meaning, was all that was needed to stamp a man as a political criminal. This was the easiest means of putting out of the way men of distinguished abilities, who might have been able to further the welfare of their country.”—Berffi, Ein Blatt Volksgeschichte. Pest, 1848.