Are we or are we not an independent state?
If independent, shall we stand by and see our personal liberties restricted?
No! I say no! "Let us petition to oust these vampires, who not only rob us of our innocent amusements, but who are fed by our taxes.

What right had Austria to dictate our politics?
What right had she to disavow the blood and give us these Osians?
O, my brothers, where are the days of Albrecht III of glorious memory?
He acknowledged our rights.

He was our lawful sovereign.

He understood and loved us." This burst of sentiment was slightly exaggerative, if the history of that monarch is to be relied on; but the audience was mightily pleased with this recollection.

It served to add to their distemper and wrath against the Osian puppet.
"And where are our own soldiers, the soldiers of the kingdom?
Moldering away in the barracks, unnoticed and forgotten.