Manchester, 3] January 1860 

Dear Moor, 

I intend to write to Ephraim Artful* tomorrow; a diplomatic 
missive such as this ought not to be sent off without due 
reflection. For a day or two now, I have been mulling over Savoy, 
Nice and the Rhine, a kind of sequel to Po and Rhine. I have made 
up my mind to offer the thing to Duncker; it won’t be more than 
2 sheets long and might provide a good pretext for getting in 
touch with Ephraim. At all events, I shall write the thing in the 
course of next week, after which I shall immediately send the 
manuscript to Berlin. Apart from one or two matters concerning 
the French revolutionary campaigns in Nice and Savoy, no 
preparatory work is called for, so it will be soon done. 

Obviously Mr Vogt must be given a thorough lambasting; but 
its difficult to say anything until we know what the fellow has 
actually published.” At all events, you might just as well use 
Fischel as anyone else, provided he really does have connections.‘ 
Moreover,. little Jew Braun“ will now see that the significance of 
your statement* and of the whole set-to between Vogt and the 
Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung” is of quite a different order to what 
the Berlin philistine at first imagined. As things stand, we must 
maintain all these connections, while the conspiration du silence and 
other intrigues, to which we must meanwhile turn a blind eye, will 
subsequently release us from all obligations as soon as some crisis 
necessitates a breach on genuinely political grounds, 

As to the chances of a fresh set-to, I am entirely of your 
opinion.’ But I believe that if, despite Vogt and Co., we are to 
keep our end up so far as the public is concerned, we shall have to 
do it through our scientific work. We haven’t the money to 
organise the émigré press and several times we have seen that an 
émigré paper or German pamphlets printed in London never 

4 Ferdinand Lassalle - > This refers to Carl Vogis pamphlet, Mein Prozess gegen die 
Allgemeine Zeitung, Geneva, 1859.- See this volume, p. 10. -4 Lassalle - 
¢ K, Marx, ‘Declaration’, 15 November 1859. - ' See this volume, p. 9. 

command a public (in Germany) unless the thing can be kept 
going for a year at least. In Germany itself direct political and 
polemical action, as our party understands it, is a sheer 
impossibility. So, what remains? Either we hold our tongues or we 
make errorts that are known only to the emigration and the 
American Germans but not to anyone in Germany, or else we go 
on as we have begun, you in your first instalment* and I in Po and 
Rhine. That, I think, is the main thing just now and, if we act 
accordingly, no matter how much Vogt may howl, we shall soon be 
back on a roormnc such as will enable us (whenever REQUIRED) to 
publish the necessary personal stiitements in one German paper or 
another. The early appearance of your 2nd _ instalment” is 
obviously of paramount importance in this connection and I hope 
that you won’t let the Vogt affair stop you from getting on with it. 
Do try for once to be a little less conscientious with regard to your 
own stuff; it is, in any case, far too good for the wretched public. 
The main thing is that it should be written and published; the 
shortcomings that catch your eye certainly won’t be apparent to 
the jackasses; and, when times become turbulent, what will it avail 
you to have broken off the whole thing before you have even 
finished the section on capital in general?* I am very well aware of 
all the other interruptions that crop up, but I also know that the 
delay is due mainly to your own scruples. Come to that, it’s surely 
better that the thing should appear, rather than that doubts like 
these should prevent its appearing at all. 

Mr Orges has issued a pur personal statement” which reveals 
who this queer fish is. Originally a Prussian lieutenant of artillery 
at the military college in Berlin (1845-48), at the same time, he 
pursued his studies and obtained his doctorate; he left the service 
in March 1848 (his application to resign is dated 19 March 748) 
and went to Schleswig-Holstein where he joined the artillery; in 
1850, he joined the crew of a merchant vessel, in which he ‘served’ 
and sailed round the world; in 1851, he attended the Exhibition in 
London,** which he reported for the A. A. Z.; he was then 
consorting with Schimmelpfennig, Willich, Techow, etc., and, 
subsequently, became the A. A. Zs military editor. At all events, 
there’s more to the man than anyone else on the paper, which he 
has set on its feet again. The leaders I attributed to Heilbronner 
are all by him. Nevertheless, I'll still be able to deal with him good 
and proper. 

a K. Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. - » See this volume, 
p. 10. 

The invitation from the louts* has come at a fairly opportune 
moment. But I trust that you won’t, of course, allow yourself to be 
drawn into anything else, for this is gruund we know only too 
well; fortunately you live some distance away. 

Many regards, 

Your 
F. E. 

The Prussians have approached my old man? with the intention 
of confiscating my assets to the tune of 1,005 talers, 20 [silver 
groschen] 6 pfennigs*° because of my alleged desertion from the 
Landwehr.*! My old man told them that he had no access to my 
assets, whereupon they calmed down. I am to be sentenced on 
18 February.