Letter from Karl Marx to Friedrich Adolph Sorge in Hoboken, London, 15 March 1872. Written in English. Text from: F. A. Sorge (ed.), Briefe und Auszüge aus Briefen von Joh. Phil. Becker, Jos. Dietzgen, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx u. A. an F. A. Sorge und Andere (Stuttgart, 1906), pp. 51-52. Spanish translation

London, March 15th 1872.

Dear Citizen.

I enclose the Resolutions of the General Council (in English and French). The other Council will receive them from Le Moussu.

Eccarius, at the end of the sitting of 12. March told me privately that he would not send the Resolutions to New York and that, at next sitting, he would tender his resignation as Secretary for the U. St. As this affair cannot be settled by the General Council before Tuesday next, the Resolutions sent by me and Le Moussu, are not signed by a Secretary, the which, considering the form chosen, was not necessary. They will be printed in next week's “Eastern Post”.

During the discussion Eccarius spoke in a spirit most hostile to your Council. He spoke and voted against Resolution III 2. He was moreover offended, because, in order to save time, I had not submitted the Resolutions to the Subcommittee of which he forms part, but laid them at once before the General Council. As the latter fully approved this proceeding after my statement of the reasons, which had induced me to act as I have done, Eccarius ought to have dropped his personal spleen.

For the private information of your Council I add that M. and Madame Hulek — he is an imbecile and she is “une intriguante de bas état” — had for a moment slipped into the General Council at a time when most of us were absent, but that, soon after this worthy couple was forced to withdraw consequent upon the intrigues with the soi-disant Branche française the which was excluded from the International and denounced by us, in the “Marseillaise” and the “Réveil” on the eve of the Plébiscite, as “une section policière”. Moreover, these two persons, after their arrival at New York, cooperated in the foundation of a Society, hostile to the International and were in constant connection with les beaux restes de la Branche française at London. The same facts have been communicated by La Moussu to the other Council.

Section 10 (french) has written an excellent letter to the General Council on the American split.

Yours fraternally

Karl Marx.