Extract from the report “Festival of the Fraternal Democrats”, published without signature in The Northern Star, No. 689, January 4, 1851, p. 1: the opening sentence, the first toast and the passage on Engels’s speech; the rest of the report is omitted […]. It is not a text by Engels: MEGA² (I/10, appendix) gives it as the report of his speech. Text from the original newspaper (NCSE, Northern Star facsimile). Traducción al español
FESTIVAL OF THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS.
The annual festival was held on Tuesday evening December 30th, at the Literary and Scientific Institution, John-street, Fitzroy-square.
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Mr. G. J. Holyoake responded to the first sentiment—“The Sovereignty of the People, the Fraternity of Nations, and prosperity to the Society of Fraternal Democrats.”
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M. Engels, (who, with Carl Shapper, attended as a deputation from the German Society,) also responded to this sentiment, thanked them in the name of his brethren for their sympathy, and expressed his best wishes for the prosperity of the English people. He then entered into a long and elaborate statement of the causes of the failures abroad, and the consequent reaction, showing that it equally arose from the ignorance of the people and the treachery of their leaders.