The young pair* were registered at a civil ceremony last 
Thursday” (since a church wedding is not legally necessary here), 
and have left for France to celebrate their Honeymoon. They send 
their best greetings to you and Mrs Gertrud. 

Coppel paid a call on me here. Unfortunately, I could not 
receive him, since I was wrapped in cataplasms. Engels was here 
during the wedding, and left again yesterday.” In response to his 
urgings, I have decided to take the arsenic cure, since an end must 
at last be put to this state of affairs. One of his friends in 
Manchester‘ was completely cured by this method in a relatively 
short time. I had certain prejudices against arsenic after reading 
in the Gazette médicale about a discussion among French doctors.“ 

The Irish question predominates here just now. It has naturally 
only been exploited by Gladstone and consorts to take over the 
helm again, and particularly to have an execrorat cry at the next 
elections, which will be based on HOUSEHOLD SUFFRAGE.’ At the moment, 
this turn of affairs is detrimental to the workers’ party, because 
the intriguers among the workers, such as Odger, Potter, etc., who 
want to get into the next Parliament, have now found a new excuse 
for attaching themselves to the bourgeois liberals.* 

This is, however, only a penalty that England—and thus, also, 
the English working class—is paying for the great centuries-old 

@ Paul and Laura Lafargue - > 2 April - © Presumably Schorlemmer (see this 
volume, p. 12).-4 ‘Traitement arsénial de la phthisie pulmonaire’, Gazette 
médicale de Paris, 11 January 1868. - © This English phrase is given in brackets after 
its German equivalent. 

4 1, Marx to Kugelmann. 6 April 1868 

crime against Ireland. In THE Lonc Run it will benefit the English 
working class itself. You see, the Enc1isH ESTABLISHED CHURCH IN 
IRELAND—OR WHAT THEY USE TO CALL HERE THE Irish church—is the religious 
bulwark of English Lanptorpism IN Ireland and, at the same time, the 
outpost of the Established Church in England itself (I am speaking 
here of the Established Church as a landowner). The overthrow of 
the Established Church in Ireland would mean its fall in England, 
and the two will be followed (in their downfall) by Lanp.orpism, first 
in Ireland and then in England. And I have always been 
convinced that the social revolution must begin seriously from the 
ground, i.e. from landed property. 

In addition, the whole thing will have the very useful result that, 
once the Irish church is dead, the Protestant Irish TENANTS in the 
province of Ulster will make common cause with the Catholic 
TENANTS and their movement in the 3 other provinces of Ireland, 
whereas so far LanpLorpism has been able to exploit this religious 
antagonism. 

The day before yesterday I received a letter from Freiligrath 
(wedding cards were, of course, sent to him), containing the 
following curious sentence.*—It will perhaps amuse you more, 
however, if I enclose the letter itself, which I now do. But you must 
return it to me. So that you understand the letter properly, the 
following: In Berlin, shortly before my book* came out, there 
appeared Zwélf Streiter der Revolution von G. Struve und Gustav 
Rasch. In this publication, Freiligrath is acclaimed as ‘one’ of the 
12 apostles and, at the same time, it is proved in great detail that 
he never was a communist, in fact that it was only through too 
GREAT A CONDESCENSION that he became associated with such monsters 
as Marx, Engels, Wolff, etc.” Since Wolff was slandered here too, I 
wrote to Freiligrath for an explanation, particularly since I knew 
that G. Rasch (a scoundrel) headed his begging committee in 
Berlin. He replied very dryly, and with evasive philistine cunning. 
Later I sent him my book without, however, as was formerly our 
mutual custom, signing it. He appears to have taken the unr. 

My best regards to your dear wife and Franzchen. If at all 
feasible, I shall come unper att circumstances and pay you a visit. 

Yours 
K. Marx 

athe first volume of Capital- > G. Struve and G. Rasch, Zwélf Streiter der 
Revolution, Berlin, 1867, pp. 59-61. : 

Apropos. Borkheim will visit you IN a Few pays. Don’t forget that, 
despite all comradeship with him, I always observe reserve! 

Liebknecht’s paper* is much too narrow-mindedly ‘southern’. 
(He has not enough dialectic to strike out on two sides at once.) 

b 

Bd. 2, Nr. 6, Stuttgart, 1901-1902 and in 
full in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Published in English in full for the 
Russian Edition, Vol. 32, Moscow, 1964 first time 

2 

Manchester, 10 April 1868 

Dear Moor, 

Enclosed letters from Wilhelmchen’ and Siebel, please return 
the former to me. Poor Siebel seems to be having a bad time 
indeed. I shall see him in about 10 days. 

Further, the draft of an advertisement for Meissner; what do 
you think of it? So far it has not been pressing, since he could not 
advertise because of the Easter Fair anyway. 

Yesterday I sent you Nos. 4 to 14 of Wilhelmchen’s rag.° It is 
dreadfully stupid. One who was in England for such a long time 
and who has your book and mine‘ should really know how to put 
the material supplied to him by the workers to other use than 
simply reproducing it at full length. Some anti-federalist passages 
with us in mind are rather comical in connection with the whole 
federalist-Struveist nature of the sheet. 

When I got back here I found such a pile of work waiting that I 
could only see Gumpert yesterday. Enclosed the prescription: on the 

a Demokratisches Wochenblatt - > See next letter and Engels’ letter to Marx of 
2 February 1868 (present edition, Vol. 42). - © Demokratisches Wochenblatt - 
d Presumably the first volume of Capital and The Condition of the Working-Class in 
England. - * See previous letter. 

first 4-5 days you should take it only twice daily, then 3 times, always 
1'/,-2 hours after a meal. And also live well and get plenty of 
exercise. Gumpert laughs at your assertion that arsenic makes you 
stupid. 

The vote on parliamentary freedom of speech is explained by 
the fact that Bismarck had stated previously that for Prussia, for 
the sake of peace, he would concede this point. So it was not even, 
as we thought, proof of the courage of the philistines. 

What Wilhelm says about the American treaty is of course 
nonsense from beginning to end.!° 

Unfortunately, I have a death to announce to Tussy. The poor 
hedgehog ate a round hole in his blanket, put his head through it, 
and got so stuck in it that he was found strangled yesterday 
morning. Peace to his ashes, and BETTER LUCK TO THE NEXT ONE. 

During the 3 days of my absence, the fellows in Liverpool 
swindled cotton up by no less than 3d., from 10d. to 13d. Hence 
so much work. Luckily the holidays intervene, which I am using to 
complete the extracts for the Beesly article.'! I am starting right 
away, and thus close for today. Best greetings to your wife and the 
girls. 

Your 
F. E. 

The wedding was celebrated here with great festivity: the dogs 
had green collars, a Tea party for 6 children, Lafargue’s glass basin 
served as a punch-bowl, and the poor hedgehog was made drunk 
for the last time.