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52 Farewell! farewell! thou turbulent life! Farewell to ye! armies engaging! Farewell! cloud canopied fields of strife, Where the greatness of war is raging! Farewell! but not forever farewell! They can not kill the spirit, my brother! In thunder I'll rise on the field where I fell, More boldly to fight out another.

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, On your side ye shall find me undaunted. On Rhine, Or on Danube, in word and deed, Ye shall witness, true to his vow, On the wrecks of thrones, in the midst of the freed, The rebel who greets you now!

The "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" had been a piece of political revolutionary practice. The "Neue Rheinische Zeitung," however, was Karl Marx. To speak somewhat with Engels: the editorial policy or course of the paper was "the dictatorship of Marx."

Marx's revolutionary activity in this tumultuous period, however, did not confine itself solely to literary or editorial work. He was also chairman of one of the three large democratic organization's in Cologne. And when we compare the courageous and unified stand of the Rhenish Democracy against the threatening onslaughts of reaction with the irresolute and in many cases cowardly manifestations of the bourgeoisie in other localities, then we begin to perceive not only the effects of a higher industrial and social development, but also the effects of the propa-