SeatonAxminster.14 Sep. 1870 Dear Sir

I am not acquainted with Mr Serrailler but the confidence you & the International Society have reposed in him is a sufficient guarantee to me that it is a case where one ought to give assistance & I gladly offer my small contribution of £ I. The order is drawn in favour of “Charles Marx, London” by E S Beesly, Seaton.

I not only most thoroughly endorse your two addressesSiehe The General Council of the International Working Men’s Association on the War und Second address of the General Council of the International Workingmen’s Association on the War (1870). [Karl Marx: The General Council of the International Workingmen's Association on the War (MEGA2 I/21. S. 245–249 und Erl. S. 1594-1612) und Karl Marx: Erste Adresse des Generalrats der Internationalen Arbeiterassoziation über den Deutsch-Französischen Krieg. (MEGA2 I/21. S. 478–484 und Erl. S. 1744-1750); Karl Marx: Second Address of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association on the War. (MEGA2 I/21. S. 485–491 und Erl. S. 1751–1766. / Karl Marx: Zweite Adresse des Generalrats der Internationalen Arbeiterassoziation über den Deutsch-Französischen Krieg. (MEGA2 I/21. S. 492–499 und Erl. S. 1767–1776)]. , but I think their importance can hardly be overrated. They are admirably reasoned, & the spirit is excellent. I now recognise as I never did before the usefulness of the International, and I regret that I have not cooperated with it actively in the past, though I have always sympathised. It is clear that this plague of militarism in France and still more in Germany can only be got rid of by the promotion of a social & industrial spirit among workmen, and a belief that their interests are the same throughout Europe. I am afraid you & I differ rather widely in our economic doctrines; but at least we agree in this that all our social arrangements have been made for & by the non-work-men and will continue to be so until the workmen know their strength and use it. I entirely distrust the Provisional government. I am told Ferry is a good man, but the rest as you say are, for workmen’s interests, no better than Thiers or Schneider. Still I hope the socialists of all schools will subordinate everything else to the Defence of the Republic at present. A socialist outbreak just now would set all the governments in Europe against France when she needs their open or covert assistance.

Tell me if I can cooperate with you to any purpose. I have been here for some weeks. I came up to London for 4 days to try to influence the leading workmen. What a pernicious old goose Beales is. He is expecting a County Court Judgeship & is on his good behaviour

Yours trulyE S Beesly. /