London, 10 September [1862] 

Dear Engels, 

My family has got back from Ramsgate; little Jenny is very much 
better. 

Lassalle’s letter, containing a letter for Meyer Brothers with 
whom the bill is lodged in Berlin, and also his acceptance, didn’t 
arrive till yesterday. In the meantime, Borkheim had already gone 
away on holiday. Up till now he has paid £40 in driblets, the last 
15 of the 40 thirteen days ago, when I was leaving.“ For I wanted 
to pester my uncle.* But he, too, was travelling on the Continent. 

a Lion Philips 

From there (passant par Cologne., etc.) I went to Trier to see my 
mater—fruitlessly, however, as I at once suspected when Monsieur 
l'oncle was not to be got hold of. On the 17th of this month, I 
have to pay a bill [of exchange] for £6 (six pounds) to my butcher, 
and Borkheim won’t have got back by then, his intention being to 
spend ssout 4 weeks bustling round Switzerland, etc. 

As to the Yankees,”’? I am firmly of the opinion, now as before, 
that the North will win in the end; true, the Civil War may pass 
through all kinds of episodes, perhaps even ceasefires, and be 
long-drawn-out. The South would or could conclude peace only 
on condition that it gained possession of the sorper stave srares.” In 
that case, California would also fall to it, the North-West would 
follow suit and the entire Federation, with the exception, perhaps, 
of the New Encianp states,“*? would again form one country, this 
time under the acknowledged SUPREMACY OF ‘THE SLAVEHOLDERS. It would 
be the reconstruction of the United States on the basis demanded 
by the South. But that is impossible and won’t happen. 

The North, for its part, can conclude peace only if the 
Confederacy is restricted to the old slave states, and then only to 
those bounded by the Mississippi River and the Attantic. In which 
case the Confederacy would soon come to a happy end. In the 
intervening period, ceasefires, etc., on the basis of a status quo 
could at most occasion pauses in the course of the war. 

The way in which the North is waging the war is none other 
than might be expected of a bourgeois republic, where humbug has 
reigned supreme for so long. The South, an oligarchy, is better 
suited to the purpose, especially an oligarchy where all productive 
labour devolves on the niggers and where the 4 million ‘wire 
trash’ “'* are flibustiers‘ by calling. For all that, I’m prepared to bet 
my life on it that these fellows will come off worst, ‘Stonewall 
Jackson’ notwithstanding. It is, of course, possible that some sort 
of revolution will occur beforehand in the North itself. 

Willich is a brigadier-general and Stephens,’ or so Kapp told me 
in Cologne, is also said to be on his way to the wars now. 

It strikes me that you allow yourself to be influenced by the 
military aspect of things a LITTLE Too MUCH. 

As to the economic stuff, I don’t propose to burden you with it 
on your journev. 

Salut. Vatah 

K. M. 

4 See this volume, pp. 400, 415. - b ibid., p. 277. - © filibusters - 4 Wilhelin 
Steffen - © See this volume, p. 414. 

You might perhaps write and tell me where and when you will 
be passing through London on your journey. If at all feasible, I 
shall come and meet you. 

It is possible (even though all manner of things still stand in the 
way) that I shall enter an English railway office at the beginning of 
next year.” 

Wuar asour Garibaldi? *!