Herr H ser's project is only a part of reactionary Berlin's great plan, which strives to disarm all civil guards, especially on the Rhine, as soon as possible, to destroy gradually the whole arming of the people now developing, and to deliver us defenselessly into the hands of an army consisting mostly of foreign elements either easily assembled or already prepared. This is what has actually happened in Aachen, in Trier, in Mannheim, in Mainz, and it can happen elsewhere.
Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 1 June 1848