e with unwearied zeal. Courage rose with the pressure of want.
"We must go and fetch the food, which is so inhumanly denied us." So
far from opposing, their Reformed neighbors frequently aided them in
these attempts. Provisions were concealed in bales of goods, which were
allowed to cross the line, and very often the Bernese authorities were
deceived by their own subjects to the advantage of the needy. And we do
not find, that, when discovered, such proofs of brotherly compassion,
and perhaps even of a secret leaning toward the old system, were
severely punished by them.

On the other hand, the prohibition, once declared, was sternly carried
out by Zurich. With the rest, it was only form; with her, reality. By
an embassy to Glarus she induced the _Landsgemeine_ (commons) of that
canton, with a majority, it is true, of only about thirty votes, to
adopt it as a principle, and as soon as this was accomplished, she
demanded of Wesen and the inhabitants of the Territory of Gaster,
subjects of Glarus, but at the same time also of Schwyz, to execute the
prohibition against the latter. At this, Bern was highly displeased,
and wrote to Zurich: "We beg you to consider how hard it is for a
subject to refuse provisions to his lord, and therefore to act
moderately and not be too rash, remembering how willingly you would
receive it from your own, if they were to deny you saleable
commodities; think well over the matter." This remonstrance had little
effect upon Zurich, and henceforth the hateful features of a measure,
which she had originally opposed with all her power, and only adopted,
because no other way of escape stood open, became more and more
visible.

At this juncture, envoys from Freiburg, Solothurn and Appenzell, along
with the two ambassadors of France, appeared again in Zurich with
offers of aid in new negotiations for peace. The Frenchmen declared,
that the people of the Five Cantons had asked for their intercession,
and although their statement before the Council was ill-received, on
account of certain allusions to the passionate behavior of Zurich as
not strictly evangelical, still the latter consented to attend another
General Diet of the Confederacy, to be held at Bremgarten, because
Zurich and Bern refused to appear in Baden, which they blamed for an
offensive partiality toward the Five Cantons. The meeting took place on
the 14th of June. It was attended by all the States, by deputies from
the city of Chur, from