Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 394
dence of what foreigners officials. The people are not disposed to forgetthat they are the real sovereign. The officials aretheir agents and servants, subordinate not superiorto them, and they require that the managementof their affairs shall be open to inspection. Thecitizen from the backwoods of… … AN UNPRETENTIOUS PRESIDENT. (SEE NEXT PAGE.) call our republican simplicity. This spirit of should not complain because he is permitted to simplicity (to adopt that term), as I have said, roam through the vaults of the Treasury only pervades all our institutions. It allows of no dis- under the…
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