tters were useless. The overbearing disposition of
these people, as well as their rudeness, was well known.--Deputies
could easily meet in such a way as would only widen the breach. Let us
once more call a Diet at Baden and bring up there our common
complaints. Together we will demand a speedy remedy. If they promise,
it is well; if not, our honor is preserved, though we break asunder.
Schaffhausen and St. Gall expressed the same opinion, and Bern likewise
fell in with the invitation.

Meanwhile, the latter had not been wrong in her conjecture. There were
yet many undoubtedly in the Five Cantons, who were neither guilty of
such rough sayings and doings themselves, nor approved of them in
others. Indeed, the majority of the rulers saw well that their
position, hitherto not unfavorable, would be endangered thereby; and
willingly would they have put away all such things, had it been
possible to change the nature of the people. Hence their deputies, to
secure whose attendance Bern had made great exertions, appeared in the
General Diet at Baden with a tolerable degree of modesty.

They desired a copy of the complaints of Zurich, answered them as they
were brought forward, point by point, as far as they could do this
beforehand, declared the willingness of their lords to punish yet more
severely after due investigation, and excused their people by the fact
that they also were obliged to hear many a bitter speech among the
Reformed, and one rude word begets another. Their faith too had been
frequently assailed by the preachers, the mass spoken of with contempt,
and they themselves called 'blood-sellers' and 'money-eaters,' in the
pulpit. The sooner the cities would find out that such things were also
punishable, the more ready would they on their side be to deal likewise
with the unruly, and if their sentences would sometimes be less severe
than the cities had expected, they were at liberty to treat the
perpetrators according to their own pleasure, whenever they came within
their jurisdiction. At this juncture, the neutral cantons earnestly
exhorted the one party to fulfill its promises, and the other to be
satisfied with them. But when the deputies of the Five Cantons wished
to speak yet about the state of the Territories, the Zurichers declared
that they had no authority to touch upon these things, and so they
parted, Zurich and the Five Cantons; neither put in a right position,
nor brought nearer to each other.

But the