[Manchester,] 13 February 1865 

Dear Moor, 

Your suggestions came just in time yesterday and have both been 
used. How necessary the one about the demands of the louts in 
particular was,* was further brought home to me by Nos. 20 and 
21 of the Sow’s-Dirt which arrived today. 

By the by, our attitude seems to be bearing fruit in spite of 
everything. There is a certain revolutionary note in No. 21 which 
was entirely absent before. By the by, I’ve written to Liebknecht 
that there’s no point in raising a storm, they must just drop their 
flirting with reaction and make sure the aristocracy and reaction 
get their snare, too, but for the rest abuse neither them nor the 
bourgeoisie, which is superfluous in quiet times.'*! 

But one can see that Izzy‘ has given the movement a 
Tory-Chartist character,” which it will be difficult to get rid of 
and which has given rise to a tendency in Germany which was 
previously unheard of among the workers. This nauseating 
toadying to the reaction comes through everywhere. We shall HAVE 
SOME TROUBLE WITH THAT. YOU wait and see, the louts will be saying, 
what’s that Engels after, what has he been doing all the time, how 
can he speak in our name and tell us what to do, the fellow’s up 
there in Manchester exploiting the workers, etc. To be sure, I 

* See previous letter. - & Der Social-Demokrat - © Lassalle 

don’t give a damn about it now, but it’s bound to come, and we 
shall have Baron Izzy to thank for it. 

Your 
F. E.