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Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. Silas Wright: At a Mass Meeting of the Democracy of Brooklyn, Held at the Colonnade Garden, on Thursday Evening, Sept, 29, 1840 The Sub-Treasury - The Standing Army - The Purse and the Sword - The Currency - Executive Patronage and its Influence on the exercise of the Elective Franchise - The labour of the mechanic a marketable commodity - The influence of a debased currency on the poor man's labour - A National Bank; its inability to preserve a stable and true standard of value - The new Militia project of 200,000 men - The Florida War, &'c. &'c. The following speech of the Hon. Silas Wright, says the Editor of the Brooklyn Daily News, is from the pen of Mr. Sutton, (professional shorthand writer, ) and all who heard Mr. Wright, will bear testimony to the extraordinary fidelity of this able report. 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.