Manchester, 6 February 1861 

Dear Moor, 

You can write and tell Freiligrath that we don’t need his tailor. 
Gumpert has obtained so much money in payment of his accounts 
that he can lend me the greater part of what is needed, to be 
repaid monthly £5 aratime; the business has therefore been fixed 
up. Freiligrath can have the £30 any day and then he need only 
pay the expenses, which I shall likewise remit to him within 24 
hours of my knowing the amount. As far as I’m concerned, he can 

@ See this volume, pp. 255, 256-57 and 258. 

write to me about it direct and you need not bother about this 
whole thing any more. I shall then make sure that I get at least 
part of the amount put down to the next financial year. 

Your letters returned herewith. Not until my last had gone 
off," did 1 discover that, according to Dana’s calculations, you 
have drawn payment for 19 more articles than they printed. 
Nevertheless, the fact remains that it is a dirty rotten business and, 
in this respect, the Tribune is behaving in true penny paper fashion. 
Its socialism amounts to nothing more than the highly contempt 
ble petty bourgeois mania for getting the best out of a bargain. 

Lassalle has become Isidor P-B* again. What sort of politician is 
this who thinks he has reduced a government to pulp because he 
has demonstrated that it was guilty of inconsistency in so trifling a 
matter? He must have some fine notions of parliamentary rule 
and what stands for law and justice under that rule. The man is 
incorrigible. One can only wonder what his monumental work in 
two volumes” will be about. At all events, anything can happen 
now that he has made such a complete volte-face in re Vogt.” As 
to his little paper, if I were you, I would advise him to start a 
weekly in opposition to the Preussisches Wochenblatt, Berliner Revue, 
Wochenschau des Nationalvereins, etc. La Hatzfeldt’s 300,000 talers, 
which both of them will hang on to very tightly indeed, and 
madame’s Lucullan mode of life won’t leave enough in the way of 
an income to keep a daily going. There’d soon be a dearth of cash. 
On the other hand, a weekly of this description doesn’t cost much 
and it would certainly be a nice source of income for us. Lassalle 
would, of course, have to pay us properly, ie., English rates, 
otherwise it’s no go. Besides, the thing would come in very useful 
as a mouthpiece for us. 

Our Prussian corporal‘ is suffering from a truly colossal attack 
of the shits. In every speech, the oaf talks of the impending 
life-and-death struggles. 

The Volunteer Journal has published a revised version of my 
Tribune article on French armaments.* This evening I shall, if 
possible send off a dozen copies to all the newspapers; the thing 
may create a sensation. I am also sending you one; since the 
scoundrels in New York are not at all interested in it now, 
and in any case it has been much shuffled about, no harm can be 

4 Prussian Blue - » F. Lassalle, Das System der erworbenen Rechte, Leipzig, 1861. - © See 
this volume, p. 252. - 4 Wochenschrift des Nationalvereins - © William I 

done. My pamphlet *’ comes out next week; all I have left to do is 

read a few proofs and write the preface. 
Bucher seems to be behaving quite decently. 
Warm regards to your wife and children. 

Your 
FE. E.