The Neue Preussische Zeitung on the Occasion of the 18th of March

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 18 March 1849


Source: Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 9, p. 109;
First published: in Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 249 (second edition), March 18, 1849.
Collection(s): Neue Rheinische Zeitung

Cologne, March 18. The organ of Frederick William IV, the Neue Preussische Zeitung, writes as follows on the occasion of March 18, 1849:

"Double woe, however, to the people that solemnly commemorates its revolution; to sin is human, but to take pride in the sin and to celebrate one's crime is of the devil."

In a feature article of the same issue, the newspaper calls the struggle on March 18 and 19 a "bloody farce"! That is the fitting reward "to My people"[1] for having made half a revolution.

Further, the newspaper reports that a few days ago Wrangel went to "inspect" Friedrichshain.[2]

We shall await what Herr Wrangel will "inspect" on March 18, 1850.

  1. ↑ The reference is to the appeal by Frederick William IV published on March 21, 1848 under the title "To My People and the German Nation" ("An mein Volk und an die deutsche Nation"). Under the impact of the revolutionary events, the King had to give a pledge to be loyal to the tricolour banner of the revolution and to contribute to the unification of Germany
  2. ↑ Friedrichshain — a park in Berlin where those killed in the barricade fighting during the March 18, 1848 uprising were buried