17.
18.
Jan. 1871.
Dear Jung,
I have in yesterday’s
sitting of the General Council fully exposed the past history of
Jules Favre
. I send you a few main points relating to his
counterrevolutionary deeds.
The Council has also
yesterday passed a Resolution instructing you to write to the Editors of the
“
Felleisen
” – as the organ
of the German Arbeiterbildungsvereine in Switzerland – in the following sense:
1) What is the position of those “Vereine” and their organ, the
“Felleisen”, to the
International Workingmen’s Association
?
2) Till now they have never paid any contribution to the General
Council.
3) In their organ— the
Felleisen
—the
annexation to Germany of Elsace and Lorraine is defended in flagrant
contradiction to
the
circulars of the General Council of which not even an
extract has ever been published by them.
4) If they persist in the non-fulfilment of their duties (point 2) and
in their opposition to the policy of the General Council
(point 3)
, which is in consonance with the
Statutes of the
International
, the General
Council, using the right, deferred to him by the Basel Congress, will
provisionally–that is to say until
the
meeting of next General Congress
–exclude them from
the „
International
“.
Yours fraternally
Karl Marx.
(verte)
/
Ladendorf
is no longer the Editor of
the “
Felleisen
”. You must
address your letter: “Redaction des
Felleisen
”.
Deutscher Arbeiterbildungsverein, in Gassen, Zürich”./
Jules Favre
.
The infamous decree of 27
th
July
June
1848, by which many thousand Parisian workmen made prisoners during
the June Insurrection, were, without even the
appearance
formality of any judicial inquiry, to be
transported
to Algeria etc, was drawn up
[by]
Jules Favre. Afterwards, he constantly refused
to join the motions of amnisty, brought forward from time to time by the
Republican party of the Constituent Assembly.
Jules Favre was one of
the most notorious tools of the
reign of terror
,
inflicted on the French working class by General
Cavaignac
after the Insurrection of June. He supported all
the shameless laws then passed with a view to suppress the right of reunion,
coalition, and the freedom of the press.
On the 16
th
April 1849, Jules Favre, as the spokesman of
the counterrevolutionary majority of a parliamentary committee, proposed to
grant
Louis Bonaparte
the 1,200,000
francs
he demanded for the
expedition against the Roman Republic
.
_________________________________________
[Umschlag]
Mr. H. Jung
4,
Charles Street, Northampton Square,
Clerkenwell. E. C.