The inhabitants of Myjava and its environs joined spontaneously the rising and fights near Brezova pod Bradlom, Senica and Stara Tura. Nevertheless, the tactics of Vienna, the lack of arms and of training of the volunteers caused that the army of rebels was dissolved, and the leaders retreated to Moravia on September 28, 1848, after the last fight in the region of Myjava farm on the community U Klasovitych. 60 inhabitants of Myjava who engaged most in the rising fled from the persecution there too.
In 1850, the Government in Vienna established the Myjava district. As it became a seat of the district authorities, Myjava was constructed - mainly its central part - so called small city, around which were even 120 communities already at that time belongigng to Myjava.
After the Austro-Hungarian settlement in 1867, the oppression of nations increases. The Hungarian Government abolishes modest gains of the Slovak nation - the Slovak grammar-schools, the Matica slovenska (cultural association of the Slovaks) and, later it makes the Slovaks speak Hungarian in public, in churches, unions, clubs, and elementary schools. Myjava resisted those pressures to a considerate degree. It was a merit of patriots - a lawyer Jan Klempa, a teacher Karol Viest, teachers Pavel Kulisek, Michal Simonovic and Vladislav Lajda, then Dr. Jan Slabej, Dr. Jan Krno, Dr. Jan Valasek, Jan Cadra and many other ones. They had an effect on the development of the Slovak consciousness at schools, they founded cultural, social and economic associations, then organized theatre performances and cultural undertakings, trips, they published books, newspapers, magazines in the local Slovak printing-house of Daniel Pazicky. In 1893, the Slovak bank institute - Myjavska banka was established as the answer to the establishment of such an institute in Myjava in 1886 that belonged to the Hungarians. However, the Hungarian authorities oppressed the activity of the Myjava patriots more and more. Many of them were police supervised. The cultural-social societies were prohibited in Myjava. Myjava, the most significant centre of patriots in western Slovakia at that time was called ”nest of Panslavists.”
The unsolved social claims and national oppression were expressed to the utmost during elections when the victory of the candidates would be reached deceitfully and violently. It is not earlier than in 1901 when four deputies from Slovakia became members of the Hungarian Parliament after more than thirty years.