Chapter V

The Narrative of Sand.--His origin and education--his early enmity
to the French--his conscientious but excitable disposition--the
effect on his mind of the burning of Kotzebue's Writings--his
personal appearance--Kotzebue in the pay of Russia, to give
information of the popular movements and opinions in Germany--
Seizure and publication of one of his bulletins to that
Government, and consequent popular excitement--Sand conceives the
idea of putting Kotzebue to death, as a traitor to German
freedom--his long mental struggles against this idea--the final
surrender to it, and preparation for carrying it into effect--his
paper called "Death-blow to August Von Kotzebue"--his letter to
his parents, and brother and sisters, on setting out on this
project--his perpetration of the deed, his trial, and execution at
Mannheim--Consequence of this and similar attempts--The
prohibition of the Burschenschaft, and persecution of its
members--The Song "We Builded," etc, as sung at the breaking up
of the Burschenschaft in June in 1819