The question, however, then arose: Would Austria accept this--would she allow a new Germany to be created in which she had no part?
Surely not, if she was able to prevent it.

The third difficulty was the relation between the individual States and the new central authority.

It is obvious that whatever powers were given to the new Government would be taken away from the Princes of the individual States, who hitherto had enjoyed complete sovereignty.

Those people who in Germany were much influenced by attachment to the existing governments, and who wished to maintain the full authority of the Princes and the local Parliaments, were called _Particularists_.

During the excitement of the Revolution they had been almost entirely silenced.