text:  "The most important thing that could be done for the preservation of the public peace in Germany were to _put an end to the reign of arbitrary power and in the place of it to commence a system of constitutional law; in the place of the bureaucratists and the democratic pamphleteers--of whom the former oppress the people by much and bad governing and the other excite and confound it--to place the influence and the activity of the proprietors of the soil_