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Updated: June 15, 2025
But those gentlemen would not listen to me, and Really, I believe I hear footsteps in the anteroom. Yes, yes, somebody is coming!" Count Stadion was not mistaken. The door opened, and a footman announced, in a loud voice, "Baron von Hormayr!"
"I was at the Archduke John's rooms, with whom I had business of importance, your excellency," said Hormayr, emphasizing his last words. "Moreover, I could not guess that your excellency would wish to grant me an audience at so unusual an hour, and without my asking for it." "At so unusual an hour!" cried Count Stadion, putting one pinch of snuff after another into his nose.
"If that is the case, go out and leave me alone with the intendant," said Hofer, shaking hands with his friend. Anthony Steeger cast an angry glance on Hormayr, and left the room. "I know very well why he wanted to get rid of me," he growled, as soon as he was out in the hall. "He intends to persuade Andreas Hofer to leave with the Austrians and abandon the Tyrol.
At the same time, the ancient constitution and the former privileges were restored to the Tyrolese, and Baron von Hormayr was appointed governor of the Tyrol.
"The Tyrolese send greeting to the Archduke John," he said; "the Tyrolese hope that the Archduke John will deliver them from the hateful yoke of the Bavarians; the Tyrolese believe that the hour has arrived, when they may recover their liberty; and to prove this- " "To prove this?" asked the archduke, breathlessly, when Hormayr paused a moment.
"I say, like the empress, the decisive hour is at hand," exclaimed Baron von Hormayr. "Hasten to the emperor; try once more to force the sword into his hand, and to wrest at length the much-wished-for words, 'War against France! from his lips. The Tyrolese are only waiting for these words, to rise for their emperor and become again his loving and devoted subjects.
And amid the solemn silence of the Tyrolese, and the peals of the Meran church bells penetrating up to them, Hormayr read to them a document drawn up by the Archduke John, by virtue of which he resumed possession of the Tyrol in the name of the emperor, declared it to be incorporated with the imperial states, and solemnly vowed that, as a reward of its loyalty, it should remain united with Austria for all future time.
"Now, men of the Tyrol," shouted Hormayr, "listen to the message which the Archduke John sends to you."
"I think, Andy, I have honestly redeemed my pledges," said Hormayr. "I assisted you everywhere to the best of my power, was always in your midst, encouraging, organizing, fighting, and mediating; and I think you will admit that I had likewise my little share in the deliverance of the Tyrol, and proved myself one of its good and faithful sons."
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