Mülheim on the Rhine, February 11 (received late). Today a 
democratic banquet took place here, arranged by the Workers’ 
Association. Members of the Cologne Workers’ and Democratic 
Associations were invited. Instrumental music and songs alternated 
with toasts supported by lengthy speeches. 

Bengel, President of the local Workers’ Association, developed the 
connection of the present with the past in a long report. Lucas gavea 
toast to the guests, especially the men who, like the redacteur en chef of 
the Neue Rheinische Zeitung Karl Marx, who was present, had in words 
and deeds upheld the rights of the working class long before the 
February revolution. Schapper toasted the “democratic republic”. 
Karl Marx spoke of the participation of the German workers in the 
struggles in France, England, Belgium and Switzerland. He raised a 
toast to Gladbach, one of the few agreers* who truly represented the 
interests of the people. Frederick Engels toasted the Hungarians and 
Kossuth. Ott of Worringen spoke about constitutional liberalism, 
aristocracy and democracy, Fischbach about the misery of the people 
and means of redress. Gladbach cast a retrospective glance at the 
dissolved National Assembly and in a lively report criticised its 
weakness, its indecision, and its lack of revolutionary understanding. 
Krahe, finally, spoke on the slogan of the February revolution: 
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.” 

The first democratic banquet in the Rhine Province was so 
successful that it will surely be imitated.