Is he not a „stupid friend“ who cannot understand why the Conservative Journals did not like to publish the calumnies which were secretly spread against Bakunin throughout Germany while the most revolutionary paper of Germany was obliged to publish them?
Is he not a „stupid friend“ who ignores that „revolutionary feeling“ at its highest pitch made the „lois des suspects“ and beheaded the Dantons and the Desmoulins and the Anacharsis Cloots?
Is he not a „stupid friend“ who dared not accuse the Morning Advertiser for having inserted the letter of F. M. while Bakunin is incarcerated at St. Petersburg at the same time accusing the Neue Rheinische Gazette for having inserted a similar letter in 1848 when Bakunin was free and not yet reduced to the misery of being defended by a „stupid friend“?
Is he not a „stupid friend“ who makes the name of Bakunin a pretext for calumniating the friends of Bakunin while he is cautiously withholding his own name?[19]
Also bald Antwort. Die Sache pressiert.
Dein K. M.
[1] Meine Zeit [und] meine Kräfte.
[2] Vereinigten Wirte.
[3] Ausländischen Korrespondenten.