Manchester, 3 March 1869 
Dear Moor, 

You see how right I was to dissuade you from taking a trip to 
Paris under any circumstances. It would be madness to put oneself 
in the hands of those scoundrels, particularly since nobody 

2 Die Volksstimme -» simply -¢ K. Marx, Revelations Concerning the Communist 
Trial in Cologne - 4 See this volume, pp. 233-34. - ¢ Ibid., p. 238. 

enquires about you and the lois de stireté? are still in force. 

Let Lafargue go to Strasbourg as soon as possible and take his 
examinations; once that is over, he will be able to take some 
liberties. The fact that he has emancipated himself from Moilin is 
of enormous value; this Jesuit would certainly have got him into 
trouble. What Lafargue writes about Blanqui is very nice.” 

Moore tells me that Beesly has written an article on the social 
question in the new Fortnightly which reaches the maximum 
confusion.” 

The only thing linguistically new for me in the old Scottish 
passage *”” was the participium praesentis havand, having,—showing 
that this form still existed in Scotland at the beginning of the 
16th* century, when it had long disappeared in England. 

I really did make the blunder in Russian. I have pretty well 
forgotten the Russian declensions.‘ 

The Lugau material”! will be returned today by Book post. Since 
I no longer know which passages I quoted, I cannot indicate them 
for you; however, I made a sort of index to the pamphlets, which 
is attached, and you may be able to see from this where the 
passages might be. 

What is the pamphlet against the Lire Assurance Co., called?* We 
really must get hold of it. 

So Wilhelmchen appealed to you against Schweitzer.” This will 
make a fine story, since Schweitzer cannot be caught so easily. The 
row is going to be fun; don’t you get the Social- Demokrat any 
more? Just now, Eichhoff should keep us properly au courant.‘ In the 
next few days I shall send you some articles that he (certainly nobody 
else) wrote in the Zukunft. 

In the meantime, in Essen the Social-Democrat Hasenclever, also 
supported by Liebknecht, has been elected with a majority of 960 
votes over what the Landrat" and the National-Liberal candidate! 
received together, and in Hanover (I believe Celle) there are also 
prospects for getting someone in.”” 

Incidentally, Wilhelm appears to be bestirring himself more and 
to be having some success in Saxony. If the jackass would only 
abandon his stupid South-German-federalist and his Guelphic 
concerns; he could accomplish something despite his thick- 

a See this volume, p. 225.-> E. S. Beesly, “The Social Future of the Working 
Class’, The Fortnightly Review, Vol. V, No. XXVII, 1 March 1869 -¢ The original 
mistakenly has ‘15th’. - 4 See this volume, p. 224. - ¢ Ibid., p. 227. - £ informed - 
8 ‘Die Gewerksgenossenschaften’, Die Zukunft, Nos. 32, 35, 37, 40 and 47; 7, 11, 13, 
17 and 25 February 1869 (see also this volume, p. 239). -» KeBler - i Dr 
Hammacker - j See this volume, p. 141. 

headedness, in view of the mistrust of Schweitzer that rules 
amongst the leaders of the Lassalleans; for Schweitzer’s bad 
conscience disarms him too, when things come to a climax. But 
with his People’s Party and his mania for restoring thrones, he’ll 
have no success in dangling carrots before north German workers. 

The odd thing is that he suddenly wants to go to Berlin, that is 
to say, admits that he can, without danger. 

Incidentally, I cannot see how you, as the Generar Counc, 
could declare yourselves competent on this question—even if both 
parties agreed—unless they both also declared themselves willing 
to subject themselves to the arbitration verdict against the 
organisation and management of the Trades unions, etc. 

Your 
F. E.