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Marx an Hermann Ebner
in Frankfurt a.M. [426i
[London, 2. Dezember 1851]
... Von Herrn Kinkel wissen Sie, daß er seine Rundreise in den Vereinigten
Staaten fortsetzt.' 2861 Er hat bisher ungefähr 12000 Dollars zusammengetrieben,
sich aber sehr wohl gehütet, die wirkliche Parteistellung
der verschiednen Fraktionen der Emigration auszusprechen, wie Sie schon
daraus ersehen, daß er sogar an persönliche Freunde von mir sich adressiert
und wirklich ihre Mitwirkung erschlichen hat. Er hat folgendes alberne
Programm in die Zeitungen geschickt:
„To the friends of the People.
The shameful tyranny and injustice of the Ger [man] 1 despots have
reached the highest point. Every free institution gained during the revolutionary
struggle of 1848, has been destroyed by the brutal power of the
Monarchs. The time has arrived when it becomes a right, as well as a duty
of the oppressed people to draw their swords and fight for the most sacred
rights which the supreme being has granted all men alike. The hatred
against the despots who cowardly murder or imprison every man, whoever
raised his arm or tongue for a republican reform and for the freedom of
the downtrodden, is on the point of a tremendous outbreak, and it is most
likely that next spring the sun will rise over the most desperate struggle
ever waged by men against their oppressors. Italy will set the ball in motion,
until tyranny is swept away and liberty proclaimed in every province of the
Old World. America having set the noble example in 1776, Europe is ready
to follow in the f ootsteps of her young and noble sister on Columbias shores.
To bring about this much desired and, more especially in Germany, the
leading German republicans (?), now refugees in London, have united
for the purpose of creating a national loan, with the promise to use every
effort, after the establishment of the republic, to liquidate the same with
füll interest. All friends of liberty in this country are now called upon to
lend their willing aid for this purpose. Without money nothing can be
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