Manchester, 16 August 1865 

Dear Moor, 

That unctuous trash from the Hatzfeldt woman” really is 
unctuous trash with all that is in it about Lassalle the only saviour, 
Liebknecht, etc. Dear old Lisrary‘ has really surpassed himself this 
time in his. customary spinelessness, lack of imagination and 

a Eleanor Marx - © C. Schilling, Die Ausstossung des Prisidenten Bernhard Becker aus 
dem Allgemeinen Deutschen Arbeiter-Verein und der ‘Social-Demokrat’. - © Wilhelm 
Liebknecht 

forgetfulness, that is, unless the whole report is a fabrication. The 
devil take such an advocatus. 

Ditto our sparkling-wine enthusiast Siebold. With what self- 
assured naivety the fellow tried to ‘reconcile’ you to Blind! °° And 
then those interesting ‘old Swedes’ whom nobody has ever heard 
of and whom we’re supposed to write to, to make ‘contact’. Quite a 
la Harro Harring. I’m increasingly coming round to think that 
from the most southerly latitude of North Friesland onwards 
everything beyond urban bourgeois and peasant politics is pure 
Harro Harring.* But no doubt you will be having that dolt on your 
back every year. 

Next week (about Friday 25th inst.) Moore and I are going to 
Germany and Switzerland for a fortnight, and maybe we shall also 
‘cast a casual glance’ over Italy.**’ If I can so arrange it, I shall call 
in briefly at Modena Villas” on my way back. 

The 28th of this month, i.e. Monday week, is the date of the 
General Meeting of the Cologne-Minden shareholders, which will 
decide Prussia’s politics for the next few years. I can’t imagine that 
those fellows will be such jackasses as to pay out 13 mill. talers in 
cash to Bismarck without having the approval of the Chambers.?*” 
But your liberal Rhineland burgher is capable of a good many 
tricks the moment he has a chance of swindling the state, and 
thinks that in his capacity as Deputy he can obtain indemnity for 
himself afterwards. But if the deal were to fall through, or if it 
were made conditional on authorisation by the Chambers, that 
would be more or less the end for Monsieur Bismarck; even that 
adventurer would not survive such a defeat in financialibus* and 
after such a desperate attempt. But the fact that he is momentarily 
coming to terms with Austria again, shows that intellectually and 
morally he is au bout de son latin.4 He knows only too well that he 
can’t start a war without being brought down immediately, so he 
goes on lashing out with big talk, chalking up little gains and 
turning Germany into the laughing stock of the world. But the 
philistine is almost as much impressed by him as by Boustrapa.”° 
The philistine now no longer requires even ephemeral victories 
from his idols, but only that they can brag. This is how 
Classen-Kappelmann became the idol of Cologne as well, because 
he took to his heels at the crucial moment.?** 

a See K. Marx and F. Engels, The Great Men of the Exile (present edition, Vol. 11, 
pp. 284-90). - > the street in London, where Marx lived - ¢ in financial transac- 
tions - 4 at the end of his strength 

It was also a nice thought of Siebold’s to put in a good word for 
C. V. Rimestad in Copenhagen, who is one of the Dagbladet 
people! The so-called Workers’ Association is a propaganda 
organisation of the Scandinavian Eider-Danes and the Hall 
ministry.?# 

What will Father Urquhart be saying next month about the legal 
advisers to the Prussian throne? What splendid lads they are! 

Kindest regards to the Lapis and Edgar.’ 

Your 
F. E.