When the communist trial in Cologne was over, Vogt-like 
calumnies about my “exploitation” of the workers were busily 
disseminated, especially in the German-American press. Some of 
my friends living in America—Messrs. J. Weydemeyer, Dr. 
A. Jacoby (a practising doctor in New York and one of the 
defendants in the Cologne communist trial) and A. Cluss (an 
official in the U.S. Navy Yard in Washington)—published a 
detailed refutation of these absurdities dated New York, 
November 7, 1853. Their article contained the comment that I was 
in the right to preserve silence about my private affairs insofar as 
it was a matter of gaining the approval of the philistines. “But 
when faced by the hostility of the mob, the philistines and the 

turned up in London late in 1850 or early in 1851 asa political émigré bearing the name 
of Charles de Fleury. At first he lived in somewhat straitened circumstances but later, in 
1851, his position improved. For after he was admitted to the Communist League” 
(another Stieber lie), “he worked as an agent for a number of governments in the 
course of which, however, he became involved in a number of swindles.” 

So much for Stieber’s gratitude to his friend Fleury who, moreover (as we noted 
above), was sentenced to several years’ imprisonment in London for forgery just a few 
months after the Cologne trial. 

Concerning the worthy Hirsch we can read (op. cit., p. 58): 

“No. 265. Hirsch, Wilhelm, shop-assistant from Hamburg. 't appears that he 
went to London not as a refugee but of his own accord.” (Why this wholly superfluous 
lie? After all, Goldheim tried to arrest him in Hamburg!) “But once there he 
associated with refugees and especially with the communist party. He played a double 
game. Cn the one hand, he was active on behalf of the revolutionary party, while, on 
the other, he offered to spy on political criminals and forgers for a number of 
conunental governments. But he himself became implicated in the worst possible frauds 
and swindles. In particular, he was guilty of forgery, so that everyone should be on 
their guard against him. Together with various other individuals he even manufactured 
false paper money merely in order to extract high rewards from the police for 
uncovering forgeries. He was eventually unmasked by both sides” (namely, both by 
police forgers and non-police ones?) “and he has now returned from London to 
Hamburg where he lives in poor circumstances.” 

Thus far Stieber on his London accomplices to whose “truthfulness and reliability” 
he is never tired of testifying. It is interesting to see how utterly impossible it is for this 
model Prussian to speak the simple truth. He cannot even restrain himself from 
smuggling? quite purposeless lies into the—true and false—facts taken from the 
documents. On the testimony of such professional liars—and they are more 
numerous now than ever—hundreds of people are sent to prison and in this lies what 
is nowadays called salvation of the state. {This note to Appendix 4 was added by 

degenerate idlers, it does harm to the cause in our view and so we 
break that silence.’ ? 

6. THE WAR BETWEEN FROGS AND MICEb 

In my pamphlet The Knight, etc., from which I quoted above, I 
wrote on p. 5: 

“...On July 20, 1851 the ‘Agitation Union’ was founded, and on 
July 27, 1851 the German ‘Emigré Club’. From that day ... dates 
the struggle on both sides of the ocean between the ‘Emigrés’ and 
the ‘Agitators’, the great war between frogs and mice. 

Now who will give me words and who the tongue,