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Letter to J. M. Weber, February 21, 1860
| Author(s) | Karl Marx |
|---|---|
| Written | 21 February 1860 |
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41
MARX TO J. M. WEBER
IN BERLIN
Manchester, 21 February 1860
6 Thorncliffe Grove, Oxford Road
Dear Sir,
The power of attorney was not sent off to you immediately after my first letter[1] because, further on in that same letter, I had requested you to telegraph me. Having waited a few days, it
a K. Blind, 'Gegen Karl Vogt', Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 44 (supplement), 13 February
seemed to me best to wait until the latest date (namely yesterday, 20 February) by which your written reply might be expected to reach London from Berlin.
Since this did not arrive and since, on the other hand, you did not reject by telegraph my request that you should act as my lawyer, I assume that you have accepted my brief. To avoid further loss of time, I am therefore sending you the following in this registered letter:
1. The power of attorney; 2. 7 enclosures, together with translations where the original is in English.
These enclosures comprise:
1. A. Vögele's affidavit[4]; 2. J. F. Wiehe's affidavit[5]; 3. My English anti-Blind circular.[6]
4. and 5. Two letters concerning this matter from the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung to me.[7]
6. Dr Schaible's statement in the London 'Daily Telegraph' of 15th February 1860, page 5, column 5, paragraph headed 'The Vogt Pamphlet'.
7. A letter from K. Blind to Liebknecht dated 8 September 1859.[8]
Tomorrow, by which time I shall, perhaps, have received a letter from you, I shall take the liberty of sending you some comments on these documents. However, you will see at first glance that the infamous conduct attributed to me in No. 41 of the National- Zeitung, where I am portrayed as the anonymous fabricator of papers allegedly circulating in other people's names, is irrefutably shown in law to be an infamous libel.
As regards the affidavits (statements made in court in lieu of an oath), all I would say is this: i You will note that in affidavit enclosure II, the words UPON OATH- have been deleted by the magistrate. For he explained to us that a statement made before him was the equivalent of a sworn statement, that a false statement was a felony and hence punishable with TRANSPORTATION but that, under English law, an oath could properly be administered only in the presence of the defendant.
The rest I shall leave for tomorrow, pending which I remain, Sir,
Your very obedient Servant,
Dr. K. Marx
I am not certain how long I shall be staying up here and hence would request that all letters be sent to my home address,
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, Haverstock Hill, London. On the power of attorney I have left a space for the names of the National-Zeitung's editors.
- ↑ ibid., pp. 40 45.
- ↑ 1860.
- ↑ d See this volume, p. 49.
- ↑ On 11 February 1860, the compositor Vögele took out an affidavit confirming, in effect, that Blind was the author of the flysheet Zur Warnung (see Note 60). Marx reproduced the affidavit in Herr Vogt (present edition, Vol. 17, p. 319).
- ↑ See this volume, pp. 31-32 and 37.
- ↑ K. Marx, 'Prosecution of the Augsburg Gazette'.
- ↑ Two letters of 16 October 1859 from Hermann Orges, editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung, requesting Marx to send Vögele's statement concerning the provenance of the flysheet Zur Warnung. The statement was to be used as evidence against Vogt (see present edition, Vol. 17, pp. 123-24 and 317-18, and this volume, p. 66).
- ↑ In this letter Blind tried to prove that he had had nothing to do with the flysheet Zur Warnung. Marx reproduced the letter in his Herr Vogt (present edition, Vol. 17, p. 122).