IN HUBERTUSBURG>*8 

London, 24 August 1872 

Dear Liebknecht, 

I regret that I have to decline your proposal for me to offer 
myself as a candidate, if only because I have forfeited my status as 
a Prussian subject, and hence my rights of citizenship in the 

a Mora did not attend the Hague Congress. 

German Empire, by having stayed abroad for ten years without 
permission.” 

We learned today that the Jurassians will be coming to The 
Hague after all, but that they will withdraw after the first 
resolutions against the Alliance’ and will then hold their own 
congress in Neuchatel. Bakunin seems to have been premature 
with his instructions to Italy; the Spaniards will have shown him 
that things cannot be dealt with in such a way and that they would 
have to go to The Hague, if only to protest. The situation is that 
the Spanish Federal Council has an Alliance-majority and has 
operated an electoral procedure which makes it probable that they 
will send 4 Alliance representatives.°”* In contrast, the union of 
the (40,000-strong) Catalan factory workers*”” will send Mora, a 
supporter of ours.* The Italians will take good care not to show up 
after their Rimini resolution.” 

Sorge is here, with me, and sends his regards. 

Your 
F. E. 

The Bakuninists are unlikely to provoke a fight. Their 
cowardice is really without limits, though they are always ready to 
speak out of turn. But they won’t attack unless they are 
8 against |.