Manchester, 12 July 1866 

Dear Moor, 

I have written about your history to Gumpert, who is in Wales; 
as I do not know his address, the letter will first have to go to his 
home here, hence certainly some delay. As soon as I have a reply, 
Pll write to you, but meanwhile I should advise you to take arsenic 
at once and put off everything else, so as to stop the damned 
carbuncle. Put an end to this abomination at any cost. 

Bonaparte’s little plan and his intervention are in part probably 
a consequence of an earlier agreement with Bismarck, but 
certainly also—the new Confederation of the Rhine, etc.—are 
threats in his direction. But how the fellow can be so stupid as to 
make this plan public is beyond my comprehension*”: as with 
Schapper—that he could be so stupid, etc.—It will assuredly drive 
the whole of South Germany into the arms of the Prussians and 
even the old philistines at the Exchange here are quite beside 

themselves about it. One old man from Frankfurt told me: it’s 
worth more to the Prussians than a reinforcement of 100,000 
men. 

You see how the stupid South Germans are letting themselves 
be picked off one by one without even taking the trouble to close 
ranks.*° It'll soon be the old, old story, we’ve been betrayed, we'll 
be led like lambs to the slaughter!* 1849 all over again. I feel sorry 
for the fellows, they’re good soldiers. Only now does one 
understand how the French were able to score such successes 
against the ‘Empire’, but not how the Empire was able to hold out 
for so long against a concentrated monarchy like France.** 

I will try and produce the stuff about the mass-murder-industry 
for you.” 

Many regards. 

Your 
F. E.