ENGELS TO MARX*” 

Manchester, 5 November 1867 

Dear Moor, 

Enclosed placed in the Elberfelder Zeitung by Siebel.” It is such a 
pity that the poor devil, who will probably be arriving here 
tomorrow, will have to leave straight away, he would probably 
have arranged a few more things. However, I will see what else he 
can do, perhaps something will be possible nonetheless. 

Notre ami‘ Kugelmann appears to have miscalculated in respect 
of the Hanoverian newspapers, too—at least, to my utter 
astonishment I discovered one of the articles? sent him, and the 
tamest of them at that, shortened and mutilated to boot, in the 
Zukunft! We hardly needed amicum' for that, and at all events I 
would have written differently for that paper. But I was writing 
for the national-liberal papers he had boasted about. 

a James Hamilton Abercorn - > F. Engels, ‘Review of Volume One of Capital for the 
Elberfelder Zeitung’. - © Our friend - 4 on the first volume of Capital - ¢ F. Engels, 
‘Review of Volume One of Capital for the Zukunft. -{ this friend 

We must adopt a different approach. Have you Liebknecht’s 
present address, or alternatively his old one in Leipzig? If you let 
me have it, I will spur him on a bit. I now realise that I shall have 
to write all the articles myself (Eccarius could probably also do 
one); the people on the Continent are finding the book is still 
lying too heavily on the stomach, and, if we are to wait until they 
have digested it, the opportunity will have been missed. I shall 
write to Kugelmann again, too,* asking him at least what he has 
done with the other article and whether he can place any more.*”* 
You must write to Meissner and ask whether he can place any if 
they are sent to him, and where. In addition, I shall write to Klein 
in Cologne about the Rheinische Zeitung, and offer an article if 
need be. It is a dreadful handicap not being on the spot oneself. If 
we were in Germany, we should already have created a stir in all 
the papers, and have managed to get the book denounced, which is 
always the best thing. 

Louis’ in Paris does not know which way to turn. What a mess 
he has got himself into! Either another retreat or war on behalf of 
the Pope.‘ I can hardly believe that he has really served the 
Italians an ultimatum to evacuate Roman territory, no more than I 
can believe that he can let things rest with Moustier’s churlish 
note.*** In either case, he is foutu.“ The present mood in Paris was 
shown at the cimetiére Montmartre.*”? Things may begin to happen 
any day now, and I hardly believe that the great man will celebrate 
another 2 December,° or at least it will probably be for the last 
time. He is in such a bad way that even the philistines here only 
treat him as a common adventurer now. 

If the storm does break, however, the revolution will everywhere 
be faced with a quite different situation from 1848. After last year, 
the disorganisation of that time will be out of the question in 
Germany, and even if an immediate violent uprising in Berlin has 
little chance, the impact of events would provoke clashes there, 
too, which would inevitably end in the downfall of the present 
regime. Monsieur Bismarck would very soon lose command of the 
situation. And then this time England would be dragged in 
straightaway and asove aut the social question would at once 
become the burning issue throughout Europe. 

Yesterday Blackburn showed the depths to which the English 
judges have sunk when he asked the witness Beck (who had first 
sworn to William Martin, but said afterwards that it was John M.): 

a See this volume, pp. 467-69. - © Napoleon III - © Pius IX - 4 done for - © the 
anniversary of the Bonapartist coup d’état of 2 December 1851