Spargo claims that Marx bent every effort to stir working men to a sense of class interest in the cause of the North and even went so far as to secure the presence of Bright at the meeting, as the most stirring orator of the day, though personally he regarded Bright "with an almost unspeakable loathing." On reading this statement I wrote to Mr.Spargo asking for evidence and received the reply that he believed the tradition unquestionably well founded, though "almost the only testimony available consists of a reference or two in one of his [Marx's] letters and the ample corroborative testimony of such friends as Lessner, Jung and others." This is scant historical proof; but some years later in a personal talk with Henry Adams, who was in 1863 his father's private secretary, and who attended and reported the meeting, the information was given that Henry Adams himself had then understood and always since believed Marx's to have been the guiding hand in organizing the meeting.] [Footnote 1369: _U.S.Messages and Documents_, 1863, Pt.

I, p.

162.
(Adams to Seward, March 27, 1863.)] [Footnote 1370: State Dept., Eng., Vol.

82, No.358.Adams to Seward, March 27, 1863, enclosing report by Henry Adams.

There was also enclosed the printed report, giving speeches at length, as printed by _The Bee Hive_, the organ of the London Trades Unions.] [Footnote 1371: See _ante_, p.