Ismeretlen konzervatív kiegyezéstervezet – 1864
An Unknown Conservative Compromise Draft from 1864

Summary/Abstract: Between 1860 and 1865, various groups of the Hungarian conservatives made several attempts to elaborate a program about the constitutional status of Hungary within the Habsburg Empire and to have it accepted by Francis Joseph I, the Viennese imperial elite, and by the Hungarian liberals who dominated political public opinion in Hungary. Two of these attempts, that of October 1860 and the two conservative compromise plans made in the spring of 1863, are known in detail. Another such attempt was made early in 1864, under the leadership of Count Antal Forgách, Hungarian Chancellor. The group, which wanted to base the settlement on the constitutional position preceding the laws of April 1848, came forward with the same program as in the year before. Their hopes were now enhanced by the fact that in the meantime the authority of state minister Anton Schmerling had been thoroughly undermined both within the Austro-German liberal political camp and before the ruler. The paper presents their memorandum, which has so far avoided the attention of historians, and tries, on the basis of the contemporary press, to outline the political context of its elaboration.

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