New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-22
GERMANY.


You viii have ere this received oy inc bo-
$1,000, naners numerous reports of the Communist
nn,.t.r Tri.I NJ Cologne. Prussia and Of It's result
BUT A none of the reports IL anything IKE iai'o
ststeep. of the facts and o. these facts throw gar
-. ,ieh. upop the political means by which the CONT
IN, If Europe Is kept in bondage, consider It neces
sary 70 revert to this trial
The Communist or Proletarian party &c vel as other
psrs,es bad lost by suppression OF the nghn Oh asso
cssion and meeting the means OF giving TO ie gat
.,~sn;zsfion on the Continent in leaders BESIDES nad
heen exiled from their countries But no poiificai
marty can exist without an organization; and that
organization which both the Liberal Bourgeois and the
Democratic shop-keeping class, were enabled more
or less to supply by the social station Advantages and
long eaablshed everyday intercourse of their mem
hers the proletaan Glass; without such social staon
and pecuniary means, was necessarily compelled 70
seek in secret association Hence both In France ana
Germany sprang up those numerous secret societ'e'
which have ever since 1919, one after anotner Deeh us
covered by the police and prosecuted as con'pracc'
but II many Of them were really conspiracies' iorieu
;h The se,usI intention of upseting the Government
lar the time being-and he s coward that under GER
tain circumstances would not conspire Just as he 10
Too, Who under other circumstance, would do so
,hrre were some other societies which were formed
vitb wider and more elevated purpose, which knew,
that the upsettipe of an existing Government was but
. pss.ne stage in the great impending struggle, and
which intended to keep together and to prepare the
marty whose nucleus they formed for the last decisive
combat which must day or another crush forever
In Europe the domination, not Of mere "tyrantS
despots and "usurpers" but Of power TAR SUPERIOR
and far more formidable than theirs that OF capital
over labor.
The organization of the advanced Communist party
Il; cernsnv was of this kind In accordance with the
principles OF its Manifesto" ublished in ls4D and
with those explained In the series Of articles ON eco
lrtion and Counter Revolution In Germany published
In The Nes, York Daily Tribune, this pery never ina
gned itself capable Of producing, at any time and 81
IL pleasure that revolution which was to carry its
ideas into practice II studied the causes that had pro-
duced the revolutionary movements OF loi9, and the
causes that made them fail. Recognizing the social
anagonism of classes at the bottom Of all political
struggles applied tself 10 the study OF the conditions
under which one class Of society can and must be
called to represent the whole OF the interests Of
q nation, and thus politically TO rule over it,
History showed to the Communist party, how after
the landed aristocracy Of the middle ages, the
monied power of the first capitalists and seized
the reins of Government how the socia influence and
political rule Of this financial section Of Capitalists
was superseded by the rising strength since the intro
duction of steam OF the manufacturing Capitalists,
and how at the present moment two more classes
claim their turn Of domination, the petty trading class
and the industrial working class. The practical revo'
lutionary experience Of ls49-49 confirmed the
ipes Of theory which led to the conclusion that the
democracy OF the petty traders must first have its
turn before the Communist working class could hope
TO permanently establish itself in power and destroy
that syste OF wages slavery which keeps under the
woke of the Bourgeosc Thus the secret organization
Of the Communists could not have the direct purpose
of upsetiing the present governments OF Germany.
Being formed 10 upset not these but the insurrecon
sry government which lie sooner or later to follow
them, its members might, and certainly would, inl
yiduslly lend an active hand TO a revolutionary
men against the present quo in It's time but the
preparation Of such a movement, otherwise than by
secret spreading of Communist opinions by the
Sec could not be object Of the Association. 80
well was this foundation Of the society understood by
the majority of its members, that when the place
hunting ambition of some tried to turn it into
spiracy for making tempOre revolution, they
speedily turned cut.
Now according to law upon the face oil the earth,
could such an association be called plot conspiracy
for purposes treason II it conspiracy, it
was one against, not the existing Government bu, its
probable successors. And the Prussian Government
was aware of it, That the why the eleven
defendants kept in solitary confinement during
eighteen months spent the part Of the authorities
In the stiangcst judicial css. Imagine that aier eight
monihs detention, the prisoners remanded for
some months more, "therc being evidence of any
crime against theml' And when at last they
brought before jury tire not sngleoyert act of
a trcasonablc nature proved against them And yet
they were convicted, and you will speedily see how.
One OF the emssaries Of the society arrested in
May lsjl, and from documents found upon him. other
arrests followed. Prussian police officer certain
%icboY Immediately ordered TO trace the ramdca
tons in London of the pretended plot He succeeded
in obtaining some papers connected with the above
mentioned secedeTs from the society, who had, after
being turned out formed actual conspiracy in Paris
and London These papers were obtained by double
crime A man named Renter brbed to break
open the writing desk OF the secretary of the society
and steal the papers thercfrom But that was nothing
yet This then led to the discovery and conviction OF
the called Franco German plot in Paris but it gave
no clue rs TO the great Communist Association. The
Paris plo; We may as well here observe, was under
the direction Of few ambitious imbeclcs and political
eAeroisrs 9iNdssi,ic in London, and OF formerly
convicted iorgcr then acting police spy in Paris
their dupcs made up by rahd declama,ons and blood.
thirsty rantngs, for the utter insisniacancc OF their
political existence
The Prussan police, then had to look out for fresh
discoveries. They established regular Office of Sc.
crci police at the Prussian Embassy in LoRdon Apo
lceagent Grei by name, held his odious vocation un
der the title of an attaese TO the Embassy-a ster
which would suffice TO put all Prussian Embassies ou
Of the pale Of international law and which even the
Austrians have not yet dared TO take. Under hiu
worked certain Fleury merchant in the City O.
London, OF fortune and rather respectfully
connected one Of those low creatures who do tn,
basest actions from innate inclination 10 infsmy An
other agent Yves s coInmercial clerk named Hirsch
who, however, had already been denounced as a spy
On his arrival He introduced himself into the society
Of some German Communist refugees in London, and
they, in order to obtain proofs of his real character
admitted him for short time The proofs of his con
nec,ion with The police were yery soon Obtained and