A letter from Germany announced that the Working-Men’s 
Unions of the Southern States of Germany are going to hold a 
Congress at Nurnberg in the first week of September. The first 
question to be decided by that Congress is the adhesion of the 
whole federation to the International Working-Men’s Association. 

Attention was called to an article in Le Réveil, a new paper, 
published by the friends of Ledru-Rollin at Paris, in which the 
attitude of the members of the Paris Committee is approvingly 
commented upon, and the political sagacity and the superior 
moral conduct of the working classes of Europe, contrasted with 
the intriguing stupidity of the ruling classes. The article contains 
the following remarkable passage: . 


“It is to the union of ideas and sentiments that prevails amongst the working 
men of the different countries of Europe that we trust for the maintenance of 
peace. In a few days the Congress of the International Association is going to 
assemble. All the countries of Europe will be represented there, perhaps with the 
exception of France, and will it be too much to say that by the wisdom of its 
resolutions this assembly of all the European delegates of labour may become the 
Amphitryonite council of Europe? Yes; if to-morrow, by mastering the immortal 
principles of the French revolution, and taking in hand the sacred interests of 
labour, which comprehend order, security, and liberty, this Congress decreed 
peace, the word would be received with enthusiasm by all Europe.” ?