The second * letter concerns business matters of the International 
Working Men’s Association, the postponement of the congress in 
particular. Marx emphatically rejects Liebknecht’s proposal to 
postpone the congress until October,” even though such a 
postponement would be very welcome to the General Council itself 
as the congress documents are not yet ready. But the French, 
Marx wrote, were already displeased about the congress being 
held in Mainz and not at least in Verviers, whereas the Parisians 
particularly wanted to have it in Paris. We must not provide any 
cause for unrest. Marx fears that if Liebknecht’s plan for 
postponement is sanctioned there will be minority congress of the 
French and the French-speaking Swiss under Bakunin and he 
says: “National petty jealousies have penetrated too deeply into 
people’s blood to be reasoned away in a day.”