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Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Prentiss, of Mississippi, on the Defalcations of the Government: Delivered in the House of Representatives, December 28, 1838 These cases are but the windfalls from that tree of Sodom - execu tive patronage. Heretofifore, the representatives of the people have, in vain, urged an examination into the character of its fruit; but it has been guarded with more Vigilance than were the golden apples of the Hesperides. Now, our attention is solicited to it by the Presi dent. Is he in earnest. Let him but give us a chance to shake this tree, and he will find his rotten pippins falling from eve1y limb and branch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.