London, 16 September 1868 
Dear Engels, 

Thanks for THE £10. At the end of the letter I shall say more 
about money matters. First about ‘general items’. 

a W. Eichhoff, Die Internationale Arbeiterassociation. Ihre Gründung, Organisation, 
politisch-sociale Thatigkeit und Ausbreitung.-> F. Engels, “To the Directorate of the 
Schiller Institute’. 

The policy of sending the report solely to The Times has proved 
itself." It has forced all London newspapers to speak, with the 
exception of the deeply-indignant Levy.” The Times did not accept 
Eccarius’ reports from Nuremberg. It only took the bait after it 
had received the report from me.’ The Morning Advertiser of 
yesterday carried (upsetting Blind) a rest reaper in favour of the 
International against The Times.‘ The Star declares the congress to 
have been a ‘success. The Standard, which first attacked us, sneaks 
before the working class in a leading article yesterday.© It knocks 
the capitalists and will now even pull grimaces about the Lanp 
question. The Journal des Débats regrets that the English and the 
Germans and the Belgians, as shown by the resolution on the 
land,’ belong to the ‘secte communiste’ and that the French, on the 
other hand, keep on reproducing ‘les déclamations ridicules de 
Proudhon’! 

People are very dissatisfied with Eccarius and next Tuesday a 
storm will break that will do him good.’ The points of the 
indictment are as follows: 

He took almost no part at all in the congress and afterwards 
posed in The Times as the teapinc minp. Also in The Times, he took 
over the proposals of the Generat Councit as his private property, and 
ditto the applause for them as due to him. He suppressed as far as 
possible the speeches of the others and, to flatter The Times, 
falsified Dupont’s concluding speech. Apart from this, Lessner has 
the crievance that when he (Lessner) read from my book, Eccarius 
suppressed this in The Times,'™* ditto that he only included the 
resolution on the book! in his correspondence under HIGH 
pressure, and finally that he falsified the German resolution on 
war.’ He said that a European war would be a civil war, instead 
of saying, as the German resolution stated, THAT ‘a WAR BETWEEN 
France AND GERMANY WAS A CIVIL WAR FOR THE PRo#iT OF Russia’. He com- 
pletely omits the latter point. On the other hand, he attributes to 
the Germans and the English the Belgian nonsense that it was 
necessary TO STRIKE AGAINST WAR. 

On the other hand, as a reporter he has done us some service. 
The long and the short of it is that he will be told that he should 
figure only as reporter in future, with the Councu. paying his 

a of The Daily Telegraph - > K. Marx, ‘The Fourth Annual Report of the General 
Council of the International Working Men’s Association’. See also this volume, 
p. 93. - “London, Wednesday, September 16’, The Morning Advertiser, 16 September 
1868. - 4 ‘The International Congress of Workmen’, The Evening Star, 15 September 
1868. - © The Standard, 16 September 1868. -  ‘Proudhon’s ridiculous declama- 
tions’ - § 22 September 

travelling expenses and The Times paying for the articles. But he 
will never again be named as peecate. Thus preserved from the 
CONFLICT OF FRACTIONS. 

Lessner says that we accomplished so much despite being so 
little represented at the congress, which was almost entirely 
Belgian (with the addition of Frenchmen), because on all decisive 
points the Belgian workers, notwithstanding their Brussels czapers, 
voted with London. Moses is said to have made the best speech 
against the Proudhonists. Tolain was so furious that he did not 
appear at the banquet. Not only has the Central Council” here 
been appointed once again, but the list of members, purified by us, 
was accepted. Within four weeks Vésinier is to submit to a 
commission in Brussels proof of his suspicions regarding Tolain.’”° 
In case these are baseless (and they are), the congress has already 
conditionally expelled him from the Association as a slanderer. The 
delegate of the Frencu srancu tabled a bill of indictment against the 
Generat Councit which, among other things, contained the modeste 
demand that the French member of the Generar Councit should be 
named by the Frency prancu. In response, the congress simply 
proceeded with the agenda (exactly as we have treated the 
grievances Of these fellows in the Generar Councit). 

At Nuremberg,'* Liebknecht committed a completely useless 
stupidity {even one contrary to the Rules) by forcimg upon the 
people Becker’s confused wishy-washy stuff as the Programme of the 
International Working Men’s Association.'*’ Sonnemann remarked 
correctly that this was a quid pro quo.” But Mr Wilhelm wanted to 
have democratic babble for the ‘People’s Party’!** 

Meissner wrote a few lines some weeks ago. He would only be 
able to render an account in some weeks. It appeared to him that 
up to the present no profit had been made. I am sending him The 
Times and Liebknecht” and the Zukunft© today. The advertisement 
will have to be done by you. I cannot advertise my own book.* 
And it would be a very good thing if you yourself wrote a small 
popular explanatory pamphlet. Let us hope that things will now 
get going. 

As regards money matters, I simply cannot go on in this way. It 
makes all work impossible. I believe it would be best if you would 
write to Borkheim and ask him whether it was not possible to raise 
money for me somehow since, after paying off the Loan sociery and 
other accumulated debts, I was now in great difficulties because of 

2 confusion - > Liebknecht’s paper, the Demokratisches Wochenblatt-¢° See this 
volume, p. 100. - 4 the first volume of Capital 

extra expenses, including trousseau for Laura, who was soon 
going to Paris. (And this is in fact an aggravating circumstance!) I 
have studied Borkheim enough to know that he must believe that 
I have, within CERTAIN LIMITS, A SETTLED INCOME, but that I am in 
particular difficulties because there is as yet no income from the 
book, etc. He should think that you are writing to him behind my 
back. Of course, you must give him your guarantee, or rather 
promise it. 

It is a very good thing that Vogt is in England* just when the 
INTERNATIONAL 1S arousing such interest. He can put two and two 

together. 
Salut. 
Your 
K. M.