Manchester, 5 November 1862 

Dear Moor, 

The £60 will go off to Freiligrath tomorrow. I can’t say what is 
to be done about renewing the bill until I know whether the bill 
will be discountable for certain as soon as Lassalle accepts it, and 
who will attend to the discounting. On the one hand, it would 
serve no purpose to worry Lassalle unduly with bills that would 

not bring you in money immediately, and, on the other, it could 
hardly be much use to me if Borkheim (to whom the same 
CONSIDERATIONS apply) sent me the money merely in small paristets. 
Then there are the expenses. 

Quant a V’Amérique,’ I, too, of course, believe that the Confeder- 
ates in Maryland have suffered an unexpected and very significant 
blow to their morale.” I am also convinced that the definitive 
possession of the sorper srares will decide the outcome of the war.‘ 
However, I am by no means certain that the affair will develop in 
as classical a form as you seem to imagine. In spite of all the 
hullabaloo raised by the Yankees, there is still no sign whatsoever 
that the people regard the business as being truly a question of 
their national existence. On the contrary, the successes of the 
Democrats at the polls prove that the party that is weary of war is 
growing.’” If only there were some evidence, some indication, that 
the masses in the North were beginning to act as in France in 
1792 and 1793, everything would be splendid. But the only 
revolution to be anticipated seems more likely to be a democratic 
counter-revolution and a hollow peace, which will also divide up 
the sorver states. That this would not settle the affair by a long 
chalk —crantep. But it might do so temporarily. I must confess I 
feel no enthusiasm for a people who, faced with an issue as colossal 
as this, allow themselves to be beaten again and again by a force 
numbering '/, of their own population and who, after 18 months 
of war, have gained nothing save the discovery that all their 
generals are jackasses and their functionaries, crooks and traitors. 
Things must assuredly take a different course, even in a bourgeois 
republic, if it is not to be landed completely in the soup. What you 
say about the iniquitous way the English view the affair 
corresponds entirely to my own opinion. 

The pvisrress up here is gradually becoming acute. Gumpert tells 
me that the more serious cases of illness in his hospital are all 
characteristic of typhoid and that cases of tuberculosis, whose 
origin can be traced back to the last 8 or 9 months, are rapidly 
increasing. I imagine that by next month the working people 
themselves will have had enough of sitting about with a look of 
passive misery on their faces. 

Kind regards. 

Your 
F. E. 

@ As for America - > See this volume, p. 420. - © ibid., p. 277.