ENGELS TO MARX” 

[Manchester,] 15 July 1865 

Dear Moor, 

Liebknecht has been expelled from Prussia; has he written to 
you since and given you his address? The poor devil will probably 
need money, and a few pounds will be more valuable to him at 
this moment than otherwise. But where should they be sent to? 

Mr Johnson’s policy is less and less to my _ liking, too. 
NIGGER “-hatred is coming out more and more violently, and he is 
relinquishing all his power vis-a-vis the old lords in the South. If 
this should continue, all the old secessionist scoundrels will be in 
Congress in Washington in 6 months time. Without coloured 
suffrage nothing can be done, and Johnson is leaving it up to the 
defeated, the ex-slaveowners, to decide on that. It is absurd. 
Nevertheless, one must still reckon on things turning out 
differently from what these barons imagined. After all, the 
majority of them have been completely ruined and will be glad to 
sell land to immigrants and speculators from the North. The latter 
will arrive soon enough and make a good number of changes. I 
think the mean wuites will gradually die out. Nothing more will 
become of this race; those who are left after 2 generations will 
merge with the immigrants to make a completely different race. 

4 See p. XL of the Preface. 

The niccers will probably turn into small squatters as in Jamaica. 
Thus ultimately the oligarchy will go to pot after all, but the 
process could be accomplished immediately at one fell swoop, 
whereas it is now being drawn out. 

I don’t think that you would win many laurels by a disputation 
with Mr Weston, and it would certainly not make a good début in 
English economic literature.? Otherwise, I cannot see it would do 
much harm to anticipate a few odd points from your book?’— 
N. B. if the latter is really almost finished now—how does it 
stand? The ultimate and final date for completion was 1 Sep- 
tember, and the price, you remember, is 12 bottles of wine. 

In the elections here Jones has been working sopy anp sout for 
Heywood, but as a teetotaller and permissive srtts Man *”” he won’t 
pull much with the workers. Moore has been working hard, too. 
The Manchester snoss will be gladdened by James, the fellow wants 
to become a judge and nothing more. The election is costing him 
a pretty penny, just for the champagne his committee and cronies 
have swigged. Ta.k about BRIBERY, CORRUPTION AND TREATING, fellows like 
that fat Knowles came in droves to the Queen’s Hotel, where the 
headquarters was, gorged their fill and swigged rivers of 
champagne, and everything was settled with a slip of paper on 
which a committee-member wrote: valid for 2 Luncheons and 3 
BOTTLES CHAMPAIGN. In Lancaster, the 3 candidates together disbursed 
£20,000, and there was free booze for a whole week in every pub. 
I was here in the Queen’s Hotel at 5 o’clock in the afternoon, the 
elegant smoking room looked like the old den in Windmill Street,”” 
and customers were served by cetzar soys in white shirt-sleeves and 
aprons, instead of sarmains in satin dresses. The whole company 
was drunk, and at half past six the landlord had to have the hotel 
cleared by a police patrol. My task consisted in getting James’ 
committee people to tipple until they were incapable of doing 
their job, and in several cases I was successful beyond expecta- 
tion. 

I’ve had a very hard time at the office, Charles‘ was away, Franz 
Ermen ditto, and a colossal amount of work to boot. Things are 
better now. I am now on Grimm’s Fairy Tales, German heroic 
epic, ancient Frisian law, etc. As soon as I have got through that 
somewhat, I’ll have a serious go at Old Norse. The poetry in it is a 
tough nut because of its deliberate obscurity and all the many 
names in the mythology, and I can see it’s no use doing this just as 

a See this volume, pp. 159-60, 162. - 6 Capital - © Charles Roesgen 

a side line; I need to spend 4 weeks all at once on it and nothing 
else, when I have little to do. 
Many regards to the canis. 

Your 
F. E. 

Moore has been asking me about the snares for The Bee-Hive; 

how do things stand? Anp How pip you Get on with Porter? 7°?