London, 23 April 1872 
Dear Liebknecht, 

We all send you our congratulations on your performance in 
court.?* After the trial of the Brunswickers*”’ it was essential for 
someone to stand up to that gang and you have fairly done so. 
The only thing you might have left unsaid was the statement 
about the 1,000 members of the International.“ 

Here in England jurymen are locked up overnight or kept 
prisoner under guard in an hotel, to make sure that they do not 
come into contact with anyone. They are taken for walks under 
escort and are also escorted to church on Sundays, if they wish to 
go. An exception is only made in cases like the Tichborne trial,*”' 
where this was not possible because of the inordinate duration of 
the proceedings (105 days), but even then the jurymen are 
harassed in all sorts of ways. 

Marx will reply to the Concordia*” as soon as he has compared 
The Times of 1864.* 

Your letter appeared in The Eastern Post’; whether it also 
appeared in The Morning Post is not to be discovered, since the 
paper is unobtainable here. The fact is that reading rooms where 
such things would be preserved, have simply ceased to exist. We send 
The Eastern Post regularly to the ends of the earth so that the 
letter will be publicised far more widely—and among the right 
people—than through other papers. 

We can scarcely doubt that the sentence must be quashed. Such 
breaches of the law have been unheard of since the Demagogue 
trials.""° Nor can it be to the advantage of the national-liberal 
bourgeoisie to establish such precedents, and I doubt very much 
whether Bismarck, who is hiding behind the small states with the 
intention of discrediting them, would be willing to risk that sort of 
thing in Prussia. 

I have seen very little about the trial in the English press—I 
have so many foreign papers to read that I can only read The 

a ‘The Budget’, The Times, No. 24535, 17 April 1863. - & W. Liebknecht, “To the 
Editor of The Eastern Post’, The Eastern Post, No. 185, 14 April 1872 (the letter 
concerned the Leipzig trial). 

Daily News and you must realise that since the introduction of the 
PENNY PRESS“? it is not possible to find papers anywhere to read 
without buying them. The article from The Daily News* is 
enclosed; you can make good use of it. 

I have. passed the bill for the Rules” on to Marx; we shall send 
the money at the first opportunity. 

I have not been able to get hold of a photograph of Blanqui up 
to now. The French have one but will not part with it, and there is 
none to be found here. 

Enclosed the receipt for the 6 reichsthalers for the refugees. 

It is just not possible for us to conjure up an introduction to the 
Manifesto out of a hat for you.** We shall have to study the 
socialist literature of the last 24 years, if we are to bring 
Section III up to date. This must be postponed for a subsequent 
edition, but we intend to send you a small ‘Preface’© for the 
separate edition, and that will suffice for the moment. 

What Scheu“ has to say about the Belgians is partly correct; the 
fellows have never been worth much and are now worth less than 
ever. We have sent someone over there who will let us have a 
detailed report shortly. At all events Scheu’s deductions are wide 
of the mark—the mass of the people will never go so far with 
Messrs Hins (who through his Russian wife has a certain 
connection with Bakunin) and Steens (whose vanity is great 
enough to seduce him into foolish adventures). Particularly since 
we are making very good progress elsewhere in the world. Our 
people have defeated the Bakuninists at the Spanish Congress in 
Saragossa.**? 

As for Cuno, he has behaved extremely well in Milan and what 
he tells me in his letters about his fate is completely true and has 
been confirmed by the Italian press.“ But it seems quite 
undeniable to me that, on his journeyings, having been shown the 
door for the sake of the International through no fault of his own 
and having landed in Bavaria, helpless and penniless, he has since 
been treated very uncouthly indeed by the people he has 
encountered in various places. He may have had rather 
dewy-eyed ideas about the help he might look forward to, but 
your money would be better spent if it were reserved for people 
such as him, instead of its being squandered on tramps and rogues 

a ‘News from Berlin’, The Daily News, No. 8096, 9 April 1872. - > K. Marx, 
General Rules and Administrative Regulations of the International Working Men’s 
Association. - ¢ K. Marx and F. Engels, ‘Preface to the 1872 German edition of the 
Manifesto of the Communist ‘Party’. - 4 Heinrich Scheu - ¢ See this volume, p. 356. 

like Riidt, etc, about whom you yourselves write letters like those 
read out at the trial (and which have unfortunately not appeared 
in the Volksstaat—as though that might help!). But, of course, 
Cuno was not one of the full-fledged men of the ‘Party’ and so 
had no business getting into trouble! If I had money I would 
really sooner send it to him than to anyone else. 

The General Council’s circular against the Bakuninists* is now 
likely to appear next week; it is a French edition. The first 
instalment of Marx’s second edition” will also come out soon, but 
do not mention it until Marx writes to you about it or until it is 
out.” The Russian translation—a very good one—is out, the 
French version is in the press. 

Enclosed are: 

1. Receipt for the 6 thalers. 

2. 3 cuttings from The Eastern Post—meetings of the General 
Council, etc. 

3. 1 ditto on the celebrations of 18 March.*” 

4, 2 Irish documents.*” 

5. Our reply to the debate in Parliament.* 

6. Article from The Daily News on your trial.“ So nine items in 
all. 

Must catch the post. Best regards to Bebel and keep your chin 
up; they haven’t got you in jug yet. But make sure that the sale of 
the stamps goes through properly and not just in Leipzig; we shall 
be very strict at the next Congress. 

Best wishes to your family. 

Your 
F. E.