3o6 CHARLES J. BONAPARTE 



mean by this that what the friends of good government in 

 America (and especially in America of to-day) have to do is 

 much less to devise methods for the efficient and economical 

 administration of public affairs, than to clearly and frequently 

 set forth and constantly and forcibly impress on the attention 

 of their fellow citizens, the true and admitted ends and prin- 

 ciples of government and the daily manifest and grievous 

 derelictions of duty on the part of public officers and of the 

 voters. 



Our aim is to spare Americans shame at the government 

 of their country; to rescue the noblest work of our polity from 

 its basest hands; to root out national vices which threaten to 

 make us a political Sodom among christian peoples. He who 

 sees such a goal before him can well fight on with calm con- 

 fidence that any temporary reverse, any individual apostacy, 

 any seeming injustice of public opinion, are but inevitable 

 incidents of so momentous a struggle, but fitting preludes to 

 so glorious a victory. 



