"In the issue of Die Republik der Arbeiter of April 3, 1852, [Weitling] published his new constitution. Weitling was the sole author of this constitution, which officially proclaimed the Arbeiterbund in existence after May 1, 1852"--Wittke, C.F. The utopian communist : a biography of Wilhelm Weitling, nineteenth-century reformer. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State U. Press, c1950, p. 206.
Reproduction of the original from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University.