Dearest Friend! Things are very disturbed here. All associations, the whole Communal Guard too and even the Prince Albert Regiment stationed here, have declared vigorously for the German Constitution. So has the Town Council. A decisive conflict is expected to occur, if not with the King, at any rate with the Prussian troops. Only one thing is feared: the too early outbreak of a revolution. Under such conditions reactionary steps on the part of the Government are unthinkable and there is no trace of an attempt at anything of the kind. Hungarian Hussars have arrived in Freiberg from Bohemia. Everyone says we are ready for them. In short, great excitement prevails here.
Richard Wagner
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Volume 1, ed. Altmann/Hull (London: Dent, 1927), No. 148