{London,] 4 December 1869 

Dear Freep, 

The RESOLUTIONS UNANIMOUSLY CARRIED? despite Odger’s incessant 
VERBAL AMENDMENTS. I gave in to him on only one point, to omit the 
word ‘peviperaTe’ before ‘InsuLts’ in para. 1.° I did this on pretence,THAT 
EVERYTHING A Prime MINISTER PUBLICLY DID, MUST BE PRESUMED @0 1pS0 TO BE 
DELIBERATE. The real reason was that I knew, as soon as the first 
para. was accepted in substance, all further opposition would be in 
vain. I’m sending you 2 National Reformers containing reports on 
the 2 first sessions, not yet on the latest. This report, too, is poor, 
and much is quite wrong (due to misunderstanding), but better 
than Eccarius’ reports in Reynolds’s. They are by Harris, whose 
currence panacea you will also find in the latest number of the 
National Reformer.‘ 

With the exception of Mottershead, who appeared as John Bull, 
and Odger, who as always acted the diplomat, the English 
delegates have behaved excellently. The general debate on the 
attitude of the English working class to the rise question begins on 
Tuesday.*) 

One has to struggle here not only against prejudices, but also 
against the stupidity and wretchedness of the Irish spokesmen in 
Dublin. The Irishman (Pigott) cannot know of the proceedings and 
RESOLUTIONS solely from Reynolds’s, to which he subscribes and from 
which he often quotes. They (the reso.utions) had already been 
sent him directly by an Irishman on 17 November. Till today, 
deliberately not a word. The jackass behaved in a similar way during 
our debate and petition for 3 Manchester men.“ The ‘Irish’ QUESTION 
must be treated as something quite distinct, excluding the outside 
world, and it must be concealed that English workers sympathise 
with the Irish! What a dumb ox! And this with regard to the 
International, which has press organs all over Europe and the 
United States! This week he has received the reso.utions officially, 
signed by the Foreicn Secretaries. The material has also been sent 
to the ‘People’.“ Nous verrons© Mottershead subscribes to The 

a See this volume, pp. 371-72. - > Ibid., p. 375. - © In the original: ‘December’. - 
d probably The New-York Irish People - ¢ We shall see. 

Irishman and will not fail to use this opportunity to PoE FUN AT THE 
“HIGHSOULED’ IRISHMEN. 

But [ll play a trick on Pigott. I’m writing to Eccarius today, 
asking him to send the reso.utions with the signatures, etc., to Isaac 
Butt, the President of the Irish Workinc Men's Association. Butt is 
not Pigott. 

The following explains to you the enclosed letter from 
Applegarth: 

After the end of the fast session, in which he behaved very well, 
he took me aside and told me the following: An Eminent MEMBER OF 
THE House of ‘CommMons* had written to him that he had been 
commissioned By AN EMINENT MEMBER OF THE House or Lorps (Lorp Leach- 
field!) to ask him whether he had voted for the abolition or aut 
PRIVATE PROPERTY at Basle.*”? His answer was decisive for the attitude 
towards him of Applegarth’s parliamentary patrons. He (Ap- 
plegarth) wanted to give the fellows a decisive answer, I should 
write down briefly the ‘reasons’, and this the following day. I was 
very busy, as well as still surrerrnc under the arm; cold made worse 
by the frightful fog after the session on Tuesday evening. Thus, 
wrote to Applegarth on Wednesday” that I had been prevented, 
but Reapy To support Him when he received a reply.*”? With English 
obstinacy he did not accept; wrote enclosed letter.““* So I was 
willy-nilly forced to write him 8 closely-written pages, which will 
give him a lot to pore over about Landed property and the necessity 
oF ITs abolition.*” The fellow is very important since, oN THE PART OF 
Both Houses or Partiament he is the officially recognised representa- 
tive of the English trapzs unions. 

Enclosed, also, a letter from Bracke.*” I have nothing against 
Bonhorst; I had only told Kugelmann that I regarded him as a 
rather revolutionary character. Kugelmann, with his usual tact, 
informed Bracke of this in amplified form. 

Tussy thanks Dido* very much for his letter, and sends 
greetings to all. 

Salut. 
Your 
Moor