The Rhine, its valley and history . t of St Gallen was himself making the best orthe new free world by entering the Swiss Alliance, anexample of ecclesiastical wisdom paralleled in the Grau-biinden, as we have already seen, by the Bishop ofChur and the Abbot of Dissentis. When the Reformation came, the men of Appen-zell fell out among themselves. Zwingli, the Reformerof Zurich, was born within the adjoining territory ofthe Abbot, at Wildhaus on the crest of the Pass lead-ins from the Tosgenburg over the south-easternshoulder of the Santis down into the Rhine upshot of the struggle w
The Rhine, its valley and history . t of St Gallen was himself making the best orthe new free world by entering the Swiss Alliance, anexample of ecclesiastical wisdom paralleled in the Grau-biinden, as we have already seen, by the Bishop ofChur and the Abbot of Dissentis. When the Reformation came, the men of Appen-zell fell out among themselves. Zwingli, the Reformerof Zurich, was born within the adjoining territory ofthe Abbot, at Wildhaus on the crest of the Pass lead-ins from the Tosgenburg over the south-easternshoulder of the Santis down into the Rhine upshot of the struggle was that the Appenzellersagreed to differ. Those who dwelt at the immediatefoot of the Santis and fed their cattle on the upperpastures round the village of Appenzell remainedfaithful to the old religion, and formed a new republic,the Inner Rhoden of Appenzell. Those, on the otherhand, to the west, the north and the north-east,whose pastures were a little lower and nearer to thelife of Zurich, accepted the reformed faith, and made56. The Swabian (I(hmethe Ausser Rhoden, a curious decentralized state withno capital village. For the purposes of federal govern-ment the two Rhoden agreed to share the cantonalrights, each sending one representative only to themeeting of the Swiss federal delegates. For internalpurposes, however, the principle of delegation is tothis day eschewed in Appenzell, and the citizens havenot only the right to vote in their parliament but theduty of doing so under the penalty of a fine. The twoassemblies meet once a year in April, and that of theAusser Rhoden is attended by as many as ten thousandmen. St Gallen and the valley of the Toggenburg,having fought with their Abbot as late as the eigh-teenth century, got rid of him finally in the FrenchRevolution, and at the Peace after the NapoleonicWars St Gallen emerged as one of the twenty-twocantons. The industries of St Gallen city, the Toggenburg,and the Ausser Rhoden have changed, although with-out spoiling t
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