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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 But how is it with the sword? And what is the meaning of the charge, that the purse and the sword are in one and the same hand? What is meant by the common expression the sword of the country GO to history to learn. It is the power to declare war the power to plunge an independent nation into war and no other interpretation was ever given to the expres sion. And where, by our Constitution, is that power? In the hands Of the President? No. It is expressly placed in the hands of Congress, and our President, then, has not, either in fact, or in truth, under the Constitution, either the purse or the sword. (applause) 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.