First, five dissidents formed a separate Council on November 19, 1871, which consisted of Yankees, Frenchmen, and Germans. In Woodhull's, etc., journal, November 19, 1871, Section 12 protested (West as secretary) against Section 1 and declared, among other things: December 4. The old Council (10 Woard Hotel) denounces the swindlers in a circular to all sections of the International in the United States. It states, among other things: It is to be noted that the new Council quickly filled up with new delegates, mostly from the new sections founded by Section 9 (Claflin) and Section 12 (Woodhull), riffraff, mostly; moreover, insufficiently strong or numerous to elect the necessary officers. Meanwhile, the Woodhull journal (West, etc.) lied unashamedly when it asserts that it was sure of the support of the General Council. Both councils appealed to the General Council. Various sections, for example, the French Section No. 10 (New York), and several Irish sections, withdrew their delegates from both councils until the General Council made its decision. Lies of the Woodhull journal, in an article of December 2, entitled: "Section 12 Sustained. The Decision of the General Council." (This was the decision of the General Council." (This was the decision of the General Council, November 5, 1871, which, on the contrary, sustained the Central Committee against the claims of Section 12, which tried to replace it as Yankees.) Resolutions of the General Council, March 5 and 12, 1872. The fate of the International in the United States depended on it. (In passing, the humbug cult which the Woodhull journal has pursued to date should be noted.) As soon as the resolutions reached New York, the fellows of the Counter Committee began to follow their old tactics. They had first discussed the original split in the most notorious New York bourgeois papers. Now they did the same against the General Council (presenting the matter as a conflict between Frenchmen and Germans, between socialism and communism), to the joyous cry of all labor-hating organs. Very characteristic were the marginal comments in Woodhull's journal, May 4, 1872, on the resolution of the General Council. Before that also: Woodhull's journal, December 15, 1871. Woodhull's journal, May 4, 1872: Apropos. In article signed W. West, in Woodhull's, etc., journal, March 2, 1872, one reads: Woodhull, etc., journal, April 6, 1872: Woodhull, etc., Weekly (it isn't called Journal), April 20, 1872. Continuation of the same dodge. The list grows, always headed by V. C. Woodhull. (There are also "Honorables" among them.) Woodhull, etc., Weekly, April 17, 1827 . Continuation of the same ballyhoo. (Begins to print the list of delegates.) Woodhull, etc., Weekly, May 4, 1872. Continuation of the dodge. (Constant reprinting of same and of enlarged lists.) Woodhull, etc., Weekly, May 25, 1872. At last (Apollo Hall scandal, May 9, 10, 11), Woodhull for President of the United States, F. Douglass for Vice-President. (Maddox of Counter Council, president of the convention, first day.) Laughingstock of New York and United States. The rest, officials of the Counter Council: John T. Elliot, vice-president, G. R. Allen, secretary (and member of Committee on Resolutions and Platform). In the latter committee, Th. Banks (one of the five founders of the Counter Council, November 19, 1871). Also Mrs. Maria Huleck on one of the committees. In the Central National Committee of New York there figure: G. R. Allen, Th. H. Banks (next to Colonel Blood, member of Section 12 and lover of Victoria), J. B. Davis. Breakup of the Counter Council. Section 2 (French) removes Laugrand (until then the French secretary of the Counter Council) as delegate. They accuse the fellow Le Socialiste (New York), May 18, 1872: Sitting of Counter Council, May 19, 1872. Maddox (of Apollo Hall) in the chair. Withdrawl of eight delegates (for eight sections) French and German). Herald, May 20, 1872, reports the same sitting under the heading:
IWMA 1872: Notes on the "American split"