Karl Marx 
Kossuth, Mazzini, and Louis Napoleon 

New-York Daily Tribune. 
Nr.3627, I.Dezember 1852 

Kossuth, Mazzini, and Louis Napoleon. 

To the Editor of The N.Y. Tribune: 

Sir: My letter of 28th of September last, containing revelations as to the 
movements of Kossuth and Mazzini, has, I perceive, elicited considerable 
animadversion, and given the Democratic press occasion for a vast amount 
of superfluous declamation, abuse and bluster. 

I have ascertained that Kossuthhas no partin this clamor. If he had himself 
ventured a denial of my assertions, I should have returned to the subject, 
and given incontestable evidence for the facts adduced. 

However, my letter was not intended as an attack on Kossuth, but rather 
as a warning. In politics a man may ally himself, for a given object, with the 
devil himself—only he must be sure that he is cheating the devil, instead of 
the devil cheating him. 

As to the gentleman who has taken upon himself authoritatively to refute 
me, I beg to remind him of an old proverb: Americus incommodus ab inimico 
non differi. 

To the gentlemen of the Democratic press, and especially of the German 
Democratic press, who, as usual, have yelled the loudest, I say they are all 
bigoted Crypto-Royalists. These gentlemen cannot do without kings, gods 
and popes. Scarcely got out of the leading strings of their old rulers, they 
manufacture new ones for themselves, and grow indignant at those "infidels 
and rebels" who render themselves obnoxious by publishing unpleasant 
truths, revealing compromising facts and thus committing lese-majesty and 
sacrilege against the newly-elevated Democratic gods and kings. 

Your Private Correspondent. 
London, November 16, 1852. 

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