BY J. F. CLARK. Formerly a Member of the Pacific Stock Exchange. DEDICATED TO ALL THE LOVERS OF TRUTH IN THE GREAT AMERICAN NATION. PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, OAKLAND, CAL.: PACIFIC PRESS, PRINTERS, STEREOTYPERS AND BINDERS. 1878. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, BY J. F. CLARK, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. DEDICATORY. To the Lovers of Truth: Ladies and Gentlemen (for the followers of that sublime virtue are of both sexes): I dedicate this effort of my pen to you because you, and you alone, appreciate the fact that all honor, all virtue, and all true robility are born of Truth, which is the Sun of Moral Life, whose beams illuminate and beautify the Social World and tinge it with the hues of it enveloped in the gloom of blackest night. THE AUTHOR. |