{[London,] 10 July 1871 

Dear Liebknecht, 

Herewith the rest of Section III.* Section IV will follow in 
2-3 days, and at all events by the end of the week.” The proofs 
today or tomorrow. 

Ad vocem deportation,” the examples you give of deportations 
from Prussia and Mainz will not hold water, because they took 
place in wartime and so were legal. You ought by some means or 
other to force a decision on the cases in Saxony: either by the 
refusal of those involved to leave, or by appeal and petition to the 
Reichstag. The Party of Progress cannot refuse you support on this 
matter without ruining itself totally. As long as the Reichstag 
does not explicitly refuse to recognise the rights of citizenship 
and the freedom to live and move where one likes, the issue is not 
settled. As to your particular case, you could have brought it to 
the boil very quickly by going to Berlin 8 days before the opening 
of the Reichstag and waiting to see what happened. I am 
convinced that they would not have touched you, and that would 
have been the end of it. If they had made a move against you, 
there would have been a fearful outcry and they would have had 
to release you as soon as the Reichstag convened; you would then 
have been able to expose the Reichstag in the eyes of the entire 
world if they had not behaved properly. There are certain 
decencies that even the most wretched assembly cannot openly 
violate in untroubled times. However, now that you are no longer 
in the Reichstag, it is no longer so simple. But if you allow all 
these rights that you possess on paper to be taken from you in 
reality without any sort of struggle, and if you do not force the 
Reichstag to decide publicly for or against its own creation, then 
there is no helping you. 

The imperious tone in which you demanded that we should 
found a paper here amused us hugely. You must have confused 
London with Crimmitschau to have imagined that one can just go 

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a The reference is to the German translation of Marx’s The Civil War in 
France.-» As to 

ahead and establish a Bürger- und Bauernfreund here without more 
ado.”*” You surely ought still to be aware that just as London is 
larger than Crimmitschau so too the difficulties in setting up a 
paper and all the demands made of it are correspondingly greater. 
If you can put some £10,000 at our disposal, we shall be at your 
service. 

Ad vocem Odger, you forget that the man was elected by the 
Congress and could not be expelled without a valid reason.”* From 
what you say on this point it is quite clear that you have 
completely lost touch with the situation here, which is not 
surprising since the papers maintain a total silence about events 
within the workers’ party. 

We have now thoroughly and definitively broken off relations 
with The Pall Mall Gazette.” 

Best regards to you and yours from my wife* and the Marx 
family. 

Your 
F. E.