London, 16 April 1860 
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hill 

Dear General, 

In furtherance of a work I intend to publish on Bonapartist 
machinations,’ I am taking the liberty of addressing myself to you 
as one of the most vigorous champions of European liberty. 
During the recent war in Italy you issued a statement in which 
you showed that you had seen through the humbug and had 
therefore made a timely exit from the stage— proof, if proof were 
needed, of your superiority to that clown, Kossuth, and _ his 
sycophants. Having unfortunately lost that statement, I had 
recourse to Szemere in Paris.” He referred me to you. Hence, if 
you would be so kind as to let me have a copy of the said 
statement, together with your comments on the deception 
practised on the Hungarians in Italy, you would be doing a service 
to the good cause. 

As early as last summer (1859), in articles of mine which 
appeared in the New-York Tribune‘ and the London ‘Free Press’, I 
mentioned your name as that of the only military representative of 
the Hungarian emigration not to have succumbed to the bribes 
and wiles of the diplomats of France and Russia, or allowed 
himself to be impressed by Kossuth’s phantasmagoria, and, in the 
new book I propose to write, I should be glad to allot you the 
place of honour that befits you. 

I am taking the liberty of reminding you that, as early as 
1848-49, when Editor-in-Chief of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, I 
was the most determined advocate of revolutionary Hungary in 
Germany. Now, as then, I consider Hungary’s independence and 
sovereignty to be the conditio sine qua of Germany’s release from slavery. 
But with no less determination do I reject the endeavour to 

a Herr Vogt -» See this volume, p. 111. -¢ ‘Kossuth and Louis Napoleon’ - 
4 ‘Particulars of Kossuth’s Transaction with Louis Napoleon’ 

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debase the nationalities by using them as a cloak for Muscovite- 
Decembrist '*’ intrigue. 
I am, Sir, etc. 

Yours, 
Dr Karl Marx