ial court has been appointed
according to your own request; but you have threatened, that if the
judges do not decide in your favor, you will compel them so to do. Your
governor in St. Gall, instead of taking leave, at the expiration of his
term of office, has stirred up the people of the abbacy and led them
into the Rheinthal, where neither you, nor yours, nor the governor have
any right to act without us. There he has surprised and maltreated two
poor congregations, because the majority have resolved to remain true
to the Old Faith. Who can live with such friends, that do them more
harm than enemies? Though we have suffered much from you hitherto, yet
is our manhood unextinguished. We are lovers of peace. God is with
such. He grants victory to the despised, and truly, he has not yet
denied it to us.

"We do not wish at this time to relate minutely all that we have
experienced at your hands in the Thurgau, Sargans, Baden and the County
of Toggenburg. Because, up to this time, we have been everywhere
deprived of our rights, we now send this last message to you and all
the Confederates. The deputies shall especially inquire, whether, in
the future, you and your adherents will keep the federal compact and
_Landfriede_ with us, let a majority be a majority, act fairly, and
whether deeds will go hand in hand with your promises. If this happen,
then we will pledge ourselves also to do all that becomes honest
Confederates. But if you, Confederates of Zurich, and whoever agrees
with you in these affairs, will not desist from your undertaking, nor
return to the federal compact and _Landfriede_, do not conceal it, so
that we, on our side, may know what to do. And, if you are neither
willing to do the former, nor make known to us the latter, then shall
our deputies appeal to our dear Confederates of Glarus, Freiburg,
Solothurn, Schaffhausen and Appenzell in the following manner:

"Dear Confederates, you have now heard how we have been treated, since
the conclusion of the _Landfriede_. You know, moreover, how, just
lately at a General Diet in Baden, when we paid down the money required
by that treaty, Zurich and her adherents gave us a promise to abide
faithfully by the federal compact and the _Landfriede_, and
particularly to respect and obey the majority in the bailiwicks, as far
as worldly affairs are concerned. How they have kept this promise, we
leave you to judge. Though we do not now know, what may be done by
others, we y