{[London,} 13 February 1852 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Weydemeyer, 

Herewith the continuation of my article.“ The thing seems to grow 
of its own accord, and you will be getting two more articles about it. 
In addition I shall be sending you by the next post something on 

a F. Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany, X. - © See this volume, 
p. 28. -° K. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, IV. 

Signore Mazzini. But it is high time that we had some copies of your 
paper.* After all, to be able to write for a journal one needs to see it, 
and the zeal of my colleagues is stimulated by seeing their things in 
print. 

Herewith a note, which you should turn into an article, about the 
position of our imprisoned friends in Cologne.” 

These people have now been in jug getting on for ten months. 

In November the case went through the Ratskammer, and was 
referred to the Court of Assizes. Next the case came up before the 
Board of indicting magistrates which, before Christmas, delivered 
a verdict, which was motivated as follows: ‘In consideration of the 
fact that there is no actual evidence of an indictable offence and 
hence no grounds for sustaining the charge...’ (but that, in view of 
the importance attached to the matter by the government, we fear 
for our posts if we drop the case against these people) ‘we 
accordingly refer the case back to the first magistrate for 
instruction on various points.’ The chief reason for this procrasti- 
nation is the government's conviction that, before a jury, it would 
fail ignominiously. Meanwhile it hopes to see the creation of a 
High Court for high treason, or at least the withdrawal of juries in 
all cases of political offences, to which end a petition has already 
been laid before the First Prussian Chamber. Our friends are 
locked up in cells, cut off from one another and from the world, 
may receive neither letters nor visits nor even books—things that 
are never denied common criminals in Prussia. 

The Board could never have pronounced such an outrageous 
verdict had the Press evinced the least concern for the case. But 
liberal papers such as the Kélnische remained silent out of 
cowardice and ‘democratic’ ones (including the Lithographische 
Korrespondenz, published by Kinkel with the help of American 
money) out of hatred for the communists, out of fear of forfeiting 
some of their own importance, out of rivalry towards ‘new’ 
martyrs.” Such is the gratitude shown by these curs to the 
N.Rh.Z., which always stood up for the democratic rabble 
whenever they clashed with the government (e.g. Temme et al). 
Such is the gratitude shown by Mr Kinkel to the Westdeutsche 
Zeitung, in which Becker was his hearth and Bürgers his haven.” 
Les canailles! Il faut les attaquer a mort. 

Greetings from my family to yours. Viur 

K. M. 

a Die Revolution-° See this volume, p. 23.-¢ The scoundrels! They must be 
fought to the death. 

{From Jenny Marx] 

We ail of us long to hear from you, dear Mr Weydemeyer, but alas, one ship 
after another comes in without bringing news of you, your dear wife,? your 
children, your paper, etc., etc. I trust you have safely received all the help sent 
from London. My husband has commandeered on your behalf pretty well all 
available communist quills (and has also turned to Germany), and some of these 
pieces, for instance Freiligrath’s poem,> will assuredly secure circulation for your 
paper. If you could somehow contrive to publish pamphlets, [ would beg you to 
think it over. We are in a very sad plight here, there being no more hope for us in 
Europe. My husband believes that his articles on France, which will run to two 
more, are of the greatest topical interest and would thus provide the most suitable 
material for a small pamphlet, if only as a sequel to his Revue articles.4 If a New 
York bookseller were able to establish contact with Germany, he could count on not 
inconsiderable sales there. In any case the thing is written for Europe rather than 
America. However, we shall, of course, leave this to your own discretion. My 
husband further asks that you urge Dana to give us the name of a business house 
here in London where we can collect the fees with the minimum of delay. At this 
distance, Kar) could not possibly give Dana any real idea of our circumstances or 
the urgency of the matter, since the situation was quite different when Dana knew 
us in Cologne and such a comfortably situated American has no idea how 
everything hangs in the balance here, and how ten shillings, coming at the right 
moment, can often rescue one from a horrifying situation. Sometime or other you 
may, perhaps, find an opportunity of telling him this personally. With kindest 
regards and warm greetings to your wife 

from Jenny Marx