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Rh matter how long the effort must be prolonged. The evidences of this are stirring on all sides; but we could infer it, without present evidence, from the political genius of the American people and its exalted mission to establish and protect self-government; for our political genius and our exalted mission alike would prove themselves the greatest disappointments of political history if the permanence of such city government as we have today were even a possibility.