Manchester, 21 July 1869 

Dear Moor, 

The whole family including Tussy, has gone to see the Price or 
Wauss” drive past. Congratulations to them in such heat. 

How dare Wilhelm assure Schweitzer publicly that‘the General 
Council of the TWA’ takes exactly the same attitude to the said 
Schweitzer as he, Wilhelm does?*” This is rather much, particular- 
ly if, as I assume, he did so without your permission. 

That Schweitzer has lost a lot of support among the masses is 
shown by the fact that he has not dared to proclaim the voting 
figures. °° Incidentally, he remains—as a person—superior to all 
his opponents. The joke about the ‘red’ republic was very good, 
and his exploitation of Wilhelm’s ‘People’s Party’, ditto that 

a Karlovy Vary -> Albert Edward - © F. Mende, ‘An die Mitglieder des Allgem. 
deutschen Arbeiter-Vereins’, 5 July 1869, Der Social-Demokrat, No. 79, 9 July 1869. 

Wilhelm is betraying the workers to the bourgeois democrats; 
Wilhelm is taking care not to answer both points, and altogether 
he appears even more incapable than usual in this polemic. How 
absurd, for instance, just at the moment, to reprint from Schwaben- 
mayer’s* Demokratische Correspondenz the glorification of the 
bourgeois American Republic because of the Pacific Railway.” 

And how can Wilhelm announce to Schweitzer that he will be 
shown the door at the Basle Congress *”*? 

Monsieur Bonaparte appears to have gone right out of his 
mind. One cropper after another. First his message with its 
apparent concessions, then the sudden adjournment, now this 
droll ministry.*** If he had set out to show even the stupidest 
Frenchman that he wants to expose France to worldwide derision, 
he couldn’t have done it better. This is just the way to shake the 
confidence his majority, his ministers and prefects, his judges and 
officers have in him. And since all the loyalty has been purchased 
and was conditional on his future success, they will desert him 
much earlier than the Senate and Corps législatif deserted the old 
Napoleon in 1814 and 1815.**” Really not much is needed to lose 
respect for Mr Louis. 

What has happened to the 18th Brumaire? I see and hear 
nothing of it. Apropos! You must send me a copy for Charles,‘ 
whom I relieved of his copy (old edition) on this pledge 

What state are your travel plans in? Jenny writes that she will be 
returning on Saturday, and then a decision will, I suppose, soon 
be taken as to when you will go. Here the balancing of accounts is 
dragging on. Yesterday they said at least 14 days, which I translate 
as: at least 3 weeks. I’m afraid Tl be stuck here until about 
20 August. 

I shall cut to length and send to Kugelmann for the Zukunft, for 
its feuilleton, the biography * he returned to me. If you want to see it 
first, let me know. 

I close because of the heat; with best greetings. 

Your 
F. E.