And he aroused a deeply
sympathetic response in the hearts of Americans by his manly and
outspoken expression--his respect for the worthy, the admirable, the
praiseworthy, his scorn and detestation for the spurious, the specious
and the fraudulent. In this book, for the first time, he strikes the
key-note of his life and thought, which sounds so clearly throughout all
his later works. It is the true beginning of his career.
On his return to the United States in November, he resumed his newspaper
work, this time at the National Capital. On his arrival there he found
a letter from Elisha Bliss, of the 'American Publishing Company',
proposing a volume recounting the adventures of the "Excursion," to be
elaborately illustrated, and sold by subscription on a five per cent.
royalty. He eagerly accepted the offer and set to work on his notes.
"I knew Mark Twain in Washington," says Senator William M. Stewart of
Nevada, in his reminiscences 'A Senator of the Sixties', "at a time when
he was without money.
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