proceed to make this attack is symptomatic of the man’s moral 
weakness. The worthy Tribune was beginning to question his 
ability and to threaten him with dismissal. Out of enthusiasm and 
ignorance, that paper is doing a great deal of harm. 

The Democrats and McClellanists naturally howled in unison in 
order to make the setback seem worse than it was. The ‘rumour’ 
that McClellan, ‘the Monk’ of The Times, has been called to 
Washington, must be laid at Mr Reuter’s door. 

‘Politically’, the defeat was a good thing. It wouldn’t have done 
for the chaps to have had a stroke of luck before 1 January 1863. 
Anything in that line might have led to a cancellation of the 
‘Proclamation’.** 

The Times and co. are hellish annoyed by the workers’ meetings 
in Manchester, Sheffield, and London. It’s excellent that the 
scales should thus be removed from the Yankees’ eyes. Not that 
Opdyke (Mayor of New York and political economist) hadn’t already 
declared at a meeting in New York: 

*‘We know that the English working classes are with us, and that the governing 
classes of England are against us.’ * 

I greatly regret that Germany should not be staging similar 
demonstrations. They cost nothing and are very remunerative 
‘internationally’. Germany would be all the more justified in doing 
so in that she is helping the Yankees more in this war than France 
did in the eighteenth century.**! It’s the same old stupid German 
failure to emphasise or to vindicate in the eyes of the world what 
the country really accomplishes. 

Have had a letter from Izzy, together with a pamphlet.* 
Contents of letter: I am to send back the Roscher.” Contents of 
pamphlet: Continuation of the lecture on the Prussian Constitu- 
tion.© Substance: Lassalle is the greatest politician of all time, and of 
his own in particular. It is Lassalle, anp No mistake, who has 
discovered—and this on the basis of a theory untainted by any 
premises and pure without any qualifications—-that the true 
constitution of a country is not the written one, but consists in the 
real ‘relations of power’, etc. Even the Neue Preussische Zeitung and 
Bismarck and Roon subscribe to ‘his’ theory, as he proves by 
means of quotations. Hence his public may rest assured that, just 
as he has discovered the correct theory, so he is in possession of 
the correct solution for the ‘present time’. And that solution is: 

a F, Lassalle, Was nun? Zweiter Vortrag tiber Verfassungswesen, Zurich, 1863. - 
> W. Roscher, System der Volkswirthschaft. - ¢ F. Lassalle, Ueber Verfassungswesen. Ein 
Vortrag gehalten in einem Berliner Btirger-Bezirks-Verein, Berlin, 1862. 

‘Since. the government continues its military expenditure, etc., despite the 
resolutions of the Chamber, etc., thus belying the existence of a constitutional 
government, etc., the Chamber will prorogue until such time as the government 
declares that it will desist from that expenditure’.@ 

Such is the power of ‘stating the facts’. To save them work, he 
has provided the wording of the decree to be promulgated by the 
Chamber. 

Old Heiman” has safely removed to Abraham’s bosom. 

Regards and compliments OF THE SEASON ‘TO THE LADIES. 

Your 
K. M. 

I see that there’s been a fall in cotton prices. In my opinion, 
however, this is only temporary.