Note 21 — CRIMES OF THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA AGAINST MANKIND. (continued 6)

It was of great importance to the government to prevent the publication of the debates in the diet. Every art was put in practice by the Austrian cabinet, to deceive the people in regard to the views of the opposition party. Emissaries were employed to diffuse among the peasantry an impression that the nobles were unfriendly to their interests, and prevented the benefits which their ‘good father, the emperor,’ wished to bestow on them. Nothing could tend more effectually to disabuse them, than giving publicity to the proceedings of the diet.