MARX TO ADOLF CLUSS2” 

[London, 30 August 1852] 

This is how the gentlemen? have manoeuvring. They 
are ignoring their deposition by the guarantors in their immediate 
vicinity who have seen through them, and are endeavouring to 
obtain individual votes by stealth, which is partly why Schurz left 
for America. (A further object is to set up kindergartens there, 
after the style of the Friends of Light.) They, who up till now 
have been vainly angling for unrestricted access to the administra- 

4 But that’s not all. - > Kinkel and Willich 

tion of the funds—which Reichenbach is withholding from 
them—are behaving as though they propose to withdraw from it 
now, unless allowed to do as they please. What they really want is 
to get at it 

The point d’argent* is as follows: The chaps have spent £200, 
which would hardly be ratified here. By this coup, by the special 
powers they have received from the other guarantors, they hope 
to get the money out of Reichenbach’s clutches and, above all, to 
make good the £200. This was their ploy: First, they send the 
documents of 11 and 12 August to America and Switzerland, 
behind the backs of the London guarantors. Then the letter was 
delivered to the latter on the 26th with the instruction that, if they 
failed to answer by 1 September, their silence would be taken for 
consent. 

What will Weitling say on learning that the money will now be 
indirectly finding its way to the worthy Heinzen? The gentlemen 
were likewise careful not to mention that, despite Kinkel’s 
recommendation and Goegg’s pleading, the Revolutionary 
League’s attempt to establish itself over here was a lamentable 
failure. Not a man allowed himself to be moved by them. What 
they now call the Revolutionary League in London is Ruge’s 
clearly circumscribed following, seven in number, which formerly 
went by the name of Agitation Club. The said league comprises 
the following gentlemen: Ruge, Goegg, Franck (Vienna), Ronge, 
Tausenau, Sigel (the other one)”; Oswald, the tobacconist, and the 
arrogant Tralle have joined in place of Gen. Sigel and Fickler. 

Tralle was denounced by Dulon in person because, at a time of 
peril, he ratted on his little Bremen paper. 

Willich is completely and utterly gone to the dogs. Scharttner 
has refused him his free meals and publicly shown him the door. 
He now proposes to go to America, where he hopes to be given a 
kind welcome from the Revolutionary League in return for his 
intention to bring them the £1,000 by way of a dowry. Scharttner 
had been solicitously accepted into the central authority of 
Willich’s league. Willich’s position in London has become com- 
pletely untenable; his parasitical existence is over once and for all. 
It would do no harm were these plans and grand designs of the 
patriots made public. 

In the Kinkel-Willich document you will find the beautiful 

a money matter - > Albert Sigel - © Bremer Tages-Chronik 

axiom: “The time of the pen is past, the time of the sword has 
come’ *”; this should read 1 pain German, and in a higher sense, 
the time of ‘fencing’ has come.* 

In a few days’ time the revolutionary general Techow is leaving 
for Australia with Madame Schmidt (Stirner’s wife). He has been 
living with her in this country for some time. But along comes his 
fiancée, on learning which Mrs Schmidt declares she will stand 
down. Then his affianced acquires another ‘fiancé’ and says she 
doesn’t want Techow any more because of his having lived with 
the Schmidt woman, and that she is going to marry the other man. 
Nevertheless he lives in the same house as herself, and the fiancé 
(the other one) a few miles outside London. Poor Buridan- 
Techow! 

Madame Pulszky was terribly put out, one of the American 
papers in which you mentioned her having arrived over here. 

A propos. Szemere has sent his manuscript’ to Webb; but first he 
got a written agreement that it must be published as it stands. Let 
me solve the Szemere mystére for you. The chap is very tight-fisted, 
which is why he would rather get Webb to print his thing than do 
so himself, as he could perfectly well do...°”” 

.. A few days ago Félix Pyat called a reunion of his French | 
adherents and laid before them a programme which is now to be 
published. ‘God’ had had a hand in it. One of those present 
objected to God finding lodgment in a revolutionary programme. 
In conformity with the gouvernement direct principle, Pyat put it to 
the vote. ‘God’ got by with a majority of 7. L’étre supréme est sauvé 
encore une fois. God doth not forsake his own, the saying used to 
go. Now it is: God’s own do not forsake him. One good turn 
deserves another...?”