THE LESSON

OF

POPULAR GOVERNMENT

"Let none objecte this is men's corruption, and nothing to
ye course itselfe. I answer, seeing all men have this corrup-
tion in them, God in His wisdome saw another course fiter for
them."-BRADFORD's History of Plimoth Plantation, p. 97.

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To My Friends,

WENDELL PHILLIPS GARRISON,

OF THE NEW YORK NATION,

EDWARD HENRY CLEMENT,

OF THE BOSTON TRANSCRIPT,

JOHN HENRY HOLMES,

OF THE BOSTON HERALD,

IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE LIBERALITY WITH WHICH THEIR JOURNALS WERE PLACED AT MY DISPOSAL DURING THE MANY YEARS IN WHICH THE VIEWS HEREIN EXPRESSED WERE TAKING SHAPE,

This Book is Respectfully Dedicated.