The March of the Lower Austrian Estates

Students and middle class reformers gathered to march as a group on the meeting of the lower Austrian estates. By 830am, about 4,000 people were all converging in front of the building where the estates met. For a moment it looked like the whole demonstration was going to fizzle out for lack of direction. But one guy had four of his friends hoist him on their shoulders so he could deliver a speech denouncing corrupt absolutism and demanding political reform. This speech primed the pump and when he stopped talking, others stepped forward,. A string of orations followed where everybody cheered reform and cheered the emperor - even though they booed Medernich.