The people enfranchised under it do not yet know their own power; a single election, so far from teaching us how they will use that power, has not been even enough to explain to them that they have such power.
He observes that the newly enfranchised citizens are still unaware of their political power.
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But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.
Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.
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