ghting under Fremont. So earnest he was about it! Nobody
could have guessed that the war meant ruin to him by cutting off his
only regular income, the five dollars a week he got for writing for
the _New York Tribune_--I think that was the name of the paper.

"Well, he begged me to get resolutions passed at our union condemning
Gladstone and supporting President Lincoln, and I believe that our
union was the first body of workingmen in England to pass such
resolutions. But Karl didn't stop at that. He got the International to
take the matter up with the different workingmen's societies, and
meetings were held all over the country. And he kept so much in the
background that very few people ever knew that it was Karl Marx who
turned the tide of opinion in England to the side of Lincoln. And when
Lincoln was murdered by that crazy actor, Booth, Karl actually cried.
He made a beautiful speech, and wrote resolutions which were adopted
at meetings all over the country. Ah, boy, Lincoln appreciated the
support we gave him in those awful days of the war, and Karl showed me
the reply Lincoln sent to the General Council thanking them for it.

"Karl was always like that; always guiding the working people to do
the right thing, and always letting other people get the credit and
the glory. He planned and directed all the meetings of the workers
demanding manhood suffrage, in 1866, but he never got the credit of
it. All for the cause, he was, and never cared for personal glory. For
years he gave all his time to the International and never got a penny
for all he did, though his enemies used to say that he was 'getting
rich out of the movement.'

"Ach, that used to make me mad--the way they lied about Karl. The
papers used to print stories about the 'Brimstone League,' a sort of
'inner circle' connected with the International, though we all knew
there was never such a thing in existence. Karl was accused of trying
to plan murders and bloody revolutions, the very thing he hated and
feared above everything else. Always fighting those who talked that
way, he was; said they were spies and hired agents of the enemy,
trying to bring the movement to ruin. Didn't he oppose Weitling and
Herwegh and Bakunin on that very ground?

"I was with Karl when Lassalle visited him, in 1862, and heard what he
said then about foolish attempts to start revolutions by the sword.
Lassalle had sent a Captain Schweigert to Karl a little while before
that with