ture of the struggle between the Magyar and Slavonian races, and by following up the Hungarian war in a series of articles which have had paid them the compliment of being plagiarized in almost every subsequent book upon the subject, the works of native Hungarians and “eyewitnesses” not excepted. We even now, in any future continental convulsion, consider Hungary as the necessary and natural ally of Germany. But we have been severe enough upon our own
point, and without any peroration ends with a summary of the political situation. Anyone would think that Marx’s own personality was to deliver a political lecture to the jury. And, in fact, at the end of the trial, one of the jurors went to Marx to thank him, in the name of his colleagues, for the instructive lecture he had given them.” (See Bernstein’s work, “Ferdinand Lassalle.”) The accused were unanimously acquitted by the jury. Among the better known of the contributors of the “New Rhenish Gazette,” edited by Marx, were Engels, W. Wolff, Werth, Lassalle; while Freiligrath wrote for it his splendid revolutionary poems. Perhaps one of the grandest of these is the celebrated “Farewell of the “Rhenish Gazette”,” when on the 19th May, 1849, the final number of the paper—suppressed by the Government—appeared, printed in red type.
“When the last of crowns like glass shall break,
On the scene our sorrows have haunted,
And the people the last dread ‘Guilty’ shall speak,
By your side ye shall find me undaunted.
On Rhine or on Danube, in word and deed,
You shall witness, true to his vow,
On the wrecks of thrones, in the midst of the freed
The rebel who greets you now.”
(Translated by Ernest Jones.)
