throw light on the relations between the German Imperial Regent 
in partibus and the Emperor of the French de facto? 

Karl Marx 

Karl Marx 

DECLARATION? 

Vogt, who knows the people he has to deal with, executed a 
very cunning manoeuvre when he shifted the source of the 
denunciation of himself from the so-called democratic camp into 
the socialist one. But I for my part have no interest in aiding and 
abetting this quid pro quo, and can therefore not permit Blind’s 
declaration* in No. 313 of the Allgemeine Zeitung to go unan- 
swered. 

1. On May 9, on the platform of the Urquhart meeting, Blind 
communicated to me all the accusations against Vogt contained in 
the pamphlet Zur Warnung. He gave the same details to others, to 
Freiligrath, for instance. Given the complete identity of both style 
and substance between his verbal statement and the _ printed 
pamphlet, he was naturally regarded as its author de prime abord.” 

2. In the London Free Press of Mav 27, an anonymous article of 
Blind’s appeared with the title ““The Grand Duke Constantine to 
be King of Hungary”’,© which in ail essentials anticipated the 
pamphlet Zur Warnung. In that article Blind declared that he 
knew of liberals in Germany and democrats in Londen who had 
been offered “large bribes” “ on behalf of Bonapartist propaganda. 
While Vogt’s lawsuit was pending, I received a visit from Mr. 
D. Collet, the responsible editor of The Free Press, who asked me at 
Blind’s request to make no use of my knowledge concerning the 

authorship of the article in question. I replied to Mr. Collet—who 
found it quite appropriate—that I would not commit myself to 
anything but that my discretion in the matter would rather 
ea on Blind’s conduct. 

Fidelio Hollinger’s declaration is simply ridiculous.’ Fidelio 
Ficlinger is aware that he has formally infringed English law by 
publishing the pamphlet without declaring the place of publication. He 
himself therefore issues a testimonial stating that he did not 
commit the peccadillo in question. It so happened that the reprint 
in Das Volk” was made from the type still standing in Hollinger’s 
print-shop. Thus even without the need to call witnesses, a simple 
comparison of the pamphlet and the reprint of it in Das Volk would 
be sufficient to prove to a court that the former “came from 
F. Hollinger’s print-shop”. The transfer of the trial from Augsburg 
to London would, in general, resolve the entire Blind-Vogt mystére. 

Karl Marx 

November 15, 1859 
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hill, London