Manchester, 15 November 1862 

Dear Moor, 

You're right, I am very broke and, like the Prussian govern- 
ment, intensely preoccupied with ‘saving’. In the hope that, by 
leading a domesticated life in Hyde Road,**° I shall be able to 
make good the deficiency, I enclose herewith a five-pound note, 
O/L 28076, Manchester, 28 Jan. ’62. At the same time, I am 
sending you a hamper of wine per Chaplin and Horne, containing 

@ See this volume, p. 422.- > broke - © 17 November - 4 grocer 

about one dozen claret and 2 bottles of old 1846 hock for little 
Jenny, the rest being made up of 1857 hock. 24 bottles in all. 

I am impatiently awaiting the steamer that will bring us news of 
the New York elections. If the Democrats win in New York State, 
I shan’t know what to make of the Yankees any more.*” That a 
people placed in a great historical dilemma,and one, in which its 
very existence is at stake to boot, should turn reactionary en masse 
and vote for abject surrender after 18 months’ fighting, is really 
beyond my comprehension. Desirable though it may be, on the 
one hand, that the bourgeois republic should be utterly discredited 
in America too, so that in future it may never again be preached on 
ITS OWN MERITS,but only as a means towards,and a form of transition to, 
social revolution, it is, nevertheless, annoying that a rotten oligarchy, 
with a population only half as large, should evince such strength as 
the great fat, helpless democracy. Should the Democrats win, by the 
way, it will give the worthy McClellan and the Wesrromrers *” a fine 
advantage and the show will soon be over. The fellows are capable of 
concluding peace, should the South agree to rejoin the Union on 
condition that the President shall always be a Sournerner and Congress 
always consist of an equal number of Sournerners and Northerners. 
They are even capable of immediately proclaiming Jefferson Davis 
President of the Unirep Staresand actually surrendering all the sorper 
states, If peace is not to be had otherwise. Then it’s goodbye to 
America. 

Besides, the only apparent effect of Lincoln’s emancipation ** so 
far is that the North-West has voted Democrat for fear of being 
overrun by Negroes. 

To descend from the sublime to the ridiculous, what do you 
think of worthy William?* At last the fellow is himself again; he 
has expiated his liberal sins and said ‘mater peccavi” to the crippled 
Elizabeth.© In return for this, the Lord has endowed him with 
strength wherewith to smite the scrofulous mob of liberals*” and 
for that, says William, ‘for that I need the military’. So rabid is the 
fellow that even Bismarck is no longer reactionary enough for 
him. That you’re a fool, Schapper, we know and you yourself 
know, but that you are such a fool, etc., etc. Things are going 
swimmingly, and what could be better than that, 14 years after 
1848, the liberal bourgeoisie should have been landed in the most 
extreme revolutionary dilemma, and all because of a miserable 
6 million talers, or about £850,000 sterling? If only the old jackass 

a William 1I-> Mother, I have sinned (paraphrase of pater peccavi, Luke 
15:21). - © The Queen dowager, wife of the late Frederick William IV.