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JOHANNA KINKEti. 803
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* I<N • «»• The Decease Papers Of Johann...
Frail Kinkelin which . he accused her of being the cause of all the crimes tlie professor , had committed : he would hardly allow an
int - erval "If in you which believe to rep that ly— it be so you should shoot me and release
my The husband husband general . " to ende rebellion d by has saying roused 1 , " The such news indignation that you against instigated you ,
that your I am unable to protect you from violence , and indeed I should not After be willing a to do she so . " lied" If I am not forced to leave this place , rep
my duty bids pause me to remain , that I may be near my husband when his " last The hour professor draws expressed nigh * " no _^ wish to see you when he was taken .
to Thus Rastadt she to heard night , " that responded her husband the general had . been taken to Rastadt . found
them She hastene in tears d away at Kinkel to the ' s approaching Stechens ( the fate turnkey . Fraii famil Kinkel y ) and took no
rest and resolved to make a last appeal to General von Groben , fox without his leave she could neither see her husband nor would her
begged presence for be a tolerated small sequestered in Rastadt room ; She in hurried the hotel to . Baden The -Baden landlord and ' s It
family received her kindly and displayed much sympathy . broug is impossible ht to her to . describe She had been her sufferings in Rastadt as but various all her rumours efforts to were see
If her The condemned husband evening proved arrived Dr . Kinkel useless on which . would the be decisive executed trial before was to the take morning place .
dawned . She , passed a night of agony , expecting -every moment to hear the fatal peal . "My grief , " she writes in her memoir , in state of litter
To " had a health reached nature its hei the ght element , I was of hatred a is as natural ' insensibility as that of . loveI neve y r felt more miserable than when I had lost the power
. to hate . The clemency of weakness arises from a mental disease which renders a man incapable of all activity . "
In 'the evening she heard that Kinkel was not shot , but condemned of to the prison " Kreuz for life Zeitung . Soon " afterwards bent upon the having news his spread blood that , was the going party to
annul the verdict or at , least to degrade him in the eyes of his own throug party . h In God his ' s grace own handwriting and by divine , Friedrich right , offered _WiUielm grace IV to ., Kinkel the King on
the "I following Let him term oi s _3 enl : — confess his crimeas also that he violated _, y ,
his oath . failed in his duties as subject and citizen , and that according " IILet to , divine him s and olemnl human y and laws openl he y acknowled deserves death ge that . he not only
is aware . of all this , but that he sincerely repents of his misdeeds . " III tance . Let . him If _KinkeLacts request my up grace to these by virtue instructions of his , neither onfession addi ng
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Johanna Kinketi. 803
JOHANNA _KINKEti . 803
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 303, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/15/
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