Manchester, 15 September 1860 
Dear Moor, 

I return herewith the legal stuff.¢ The letter from Jacob Weasel‘ 
will follow tomorrow, as will the Eichhoff,! which Gumpert is still 
reading. I found the letter from our Weasel most cheering, or, 
rather, it brought a smile to my lips; it’s a splendid tonic for your 

4 See this volume, p. 187. - » ibid., pp. 192-94. - © K. Marx, A Contribution to the 
Critique of Political Economy. - 4 See this volume, p. 184. - © Ferdinand Lassalle - 
' K. W. Eichhoff, Berliner Polizei-Silhouetten, Berlin, 1860. 

liver, if nothing else. The things about the Prussian government 
are quite interesting, but the best of it is that the chap imagines we 
should now concede that he is right over the Italian question!!! 
Now, when, in Italy itself, Cavour is actually being attacked and 
threatened by the revolutionary party! What naiveté. Now, with 
Garibaldi on the point of attacking Bonaparte in Rome,* we are to 
admit that, in the spring of this year, we should have joined forces 
with Cavour and Bonap. and— qui sait??>—might yet join forces 
with them! True, Mr Weasel is very reticent about the present. 

You must at all costs avoid having your pamphlet* printed in 
London. I immediately wrote to Siebel once again. Firstly, the 
thing would be confiscated at once, perhaps actually on the 
frontier or at Leipzig, and secondly, even if this didn’t happen, 
distribution would again be so appallingly bad that no one would 
ever set eyes on the thing. The experience is one we have been 
through hundreds of times with émigré literature. Always the 
same ineffectuality, always money and labour gone down the 
drain—not to mention the irritation. And then, where’s the 
money to come from? According to your letter, it will call for £50 
to £60 or more, and Lassalle certainly won't get us £30. Come to 
that, the thing ought to be worded in such a way that it could be 
printed and distributed in Germany; of what use to us is a riposte 
to Vogt which no one ever sets eyes on? And I simply don’t see 
why we need any confiscable content here. Even with the press 
regulations as they now are, you can still say enough to drive the 
Prussians mad, and that, after all, is preferable to satisfaction in 
partibus* of which the public remains unaware and which, as it 
were, you give yourself merely in private. 

Some three weeks ago I sent an article on the Rifle Movement“ to 
the Allgemeine Militér-Zeitung in Darmstadt and, because in my 
dealings. with those professional soldiers I couldn’t risk sailing 
UNDER FALSE colours, I told the fellows in an accompanying letter‘ 
that I had fought in the campaign in Baden on the side of the 
insurgents. 7!” They did print the article all the same and it has 
now appeared in English over here as well. If possible, I shall 

@ See this volume, p. 171. - » who knows? - © Herr Vogt-4 In partibus (infidelium) 
means, literally, in parts inhabited by unbelievers. The words are added to the title of 
Roman Catholic bishops appointed to purely nominal dioceses in non-Christian 
countries. Here they mean ‘outside the sphere of reality’. -¢ F. Engels, ‘Eine 
Musterung englischer freiwilliger Jager’.-' F. Engels, “To the Editor of the 
Allgemeine Militdr-Zeitung. - § The translation was made by Engels himself, with 
minor alterations. It appeared under the title ‘A German Account of the Newton 
Review’ in The Volunteer Journal, for Lancashire and Cheshire, No. 2, 14 September 
1860. 

send it to you this evening; there is no need to return it to me, as 
I shall be getting a copy of my own in a week’s time. This is a 
connection of great value to me as regards military affairs.’ 

The business of the Holy Alhance* is pretty disastrous and in 
France will be of enormous help to Bonap. Garibaldi, that’s the 
only redeeming feature. Meanwhile, I’m anxious to know how the 
liberal philistines in Prussia will feel about her coming under 
Russia’s aegis again. Nowhere else in the world, by the way, does 
the gutter-press equal that of Berlin; this time it even seems to 
have gone too far for the Weasel. [ll tell you this— it’s impossible 
so much as to pick up the National- or the Volks-Zeitung; the 
stench of their boring balderdash and know-all fadaise” carries half 
a mile or more. : 

At the National Association,** too, Mr Miquel held forth with 
genuine National Association sagacity. As for Heinrich,‘ he has at 
long last discovered his standpoint. 

Regards to your wife and children. 

Your 
FE,