The Life of John Paterson, Major-General in the Revolutionary Army
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How was it possible to persuade them to drop their local jealousies and intrust their future welfare to it f The world did not then perceive it, but the fact that those people, conditioned as they were, should have been able to even dimly understand and accept their new govern- ment was a final demonstration of the capacity of the people to govern themselves. It is worth considerine: for a moment. You have been act- 264 APPENDIX. ors in a national election. The struggle tm-ned upon a single iss...ue, perhaps the tariff or the cm-reney. You know something of the perfection of the organization of parties : of its enor- mous cost ; of the great ability of its orators and of the press ; of the industry of the poHticians for mouths and years — all this to instruct and persuade the people upon a single issue. Suppose the issue to be the whole form and theory of a gov- ernment, with yom-selves and your leaders ignorant of its prac- tical working, and that you were Uviug under like conditions ; can you conceive of yoiu'selves, confi'onted with such a prob- lem under such circumstances, being able to triumphantly solve it ?
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