T o show how pleasantly the war was waged between Emigration and Agitation we append here a few excerpts from the German-American papers.
Agitation.
Ruge declared that Kinkel was an "agent of the Prince of Prussia".
Another agitator discovered that the outstanding men of the ÉmigréClub consisted of "Pastor Kinkel together with three Prussian lieutenants, two mediocre Berlin literati and one student".
Sigel wrote: "It cannot be denied that Willich has gained some support. But when a man has been a preacher for three years and only tells people what they wish to hear, he would have to be very stupid not to be able to win some of them over. The Kinkelites are attempting to take these supporters over. The Willich supporters are whoring with the Kinkel supporters."A fourth agitator declared that Kinkel's supporters are "idolators".
Tausenau gave this description of the Émigré Club.
"Divergent interests beneath the mask of conciliatoriness, the systematic gerrymandering of majorities, the emergence of unknown quantities as organising party leaders, attempts to impose a secret finance committee and all the other slippery manoeuvres with which immature politicians of all ages have tried to control the fates of their country in exile, while the first glow of the revolution disperses all such vanities like a morning mist."Lastly, Rodomonte-Heinzen announced that the only reputable refugees in England personally known to him were Ruge, Goegg, Fickler and Sigel. The members of the Émigré Club were "egoists, royalists and communists".
Kinkel was "an incurably vain fool and an aristocratic adventurer", Meyen, Oppenheim and Willich, etc. were people "who do not even come up to his, Heinzen's, knee and as for Ruge, they do not even reach to his ankle".
(New York Schnellpost, New-Yorker Deutsche Zeitung, Wecker , etc.
1851.)
