After the Compromise of 1867 turned Hungary into a partner state of the empire, its government moved against exactly these institutions. The Slovak grammar school in Martin was closed in 1874 after eight years, in which more than six hundred boys, most of them poor, had passed through it. On 6 April 1875 the interior minister Kálmán Tisza banned Matica slovenská; on 12 November it was dissolved and its property confiscated, and the collections and money were later handed to FEMKE, a society founded in 1883 to Magyarize Upper Hungary. The lesson a student should take is how deliberate this was: not a riot, but ministers using paperwork to shut a library and a school.Keď rakúsko-uhorské vyrovnanie z roku 1867 urobilo z Uhorska partnerský štát ríše, jeho vláda zamierila práve na tieto ustanovizne. Slovenské gymnázium v Martine zatvorili v roku 1874 po ôsmich rokoch, počas ktorých ním prešlo vyše šesťsto chlapcov, väčšinou z chudobných rodín. 6. apríla 1875 zakázal minister vnútra Koloman Tisza Maticu slovenskú, 12. novembra ju rozpustili a majetok jej zhabali; zbierky a peniaze neskôr pripadli FEMKE, spolku založenému v roku 1883 na pomaďarčovanie horného Uhorska. Podstatné je, aké chladnokrvné to všetko bolo: nie výbuch násilia, ale ministri, ktorí úradnými spismi zavreli knižnicu a školu.
