Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Hudson, of Massachusetts, on the Subject of Discriminating Duties: Delivered in the House of Representatives, December 27 and 28, 1841 Mr. Speaker, I em rejoiced to perceive that the gentleman has relaxed a little, and is disposed to come down from the regions of abstractions, and look at things in a more practical manner. I shall endeavor to look at things in the same way. But the principle stated by the member from South Carolina, and repeated by other gentlemen in the House, cannot be better illustrated than by an anecdote which I will relate. We have in our part of the country such an article as quack doctors. It was once my fortune to fall in with one. Who was assailing the regular practice, and had selected the subject of blood-letting as the point of attack. He said, I can convince any man, in two minutes, that blood-letting in all cases is inilietions and dangerous. This is the principle: blood is life if you take away the whole of a man's blood, you take away his life - be must die. And so if you take away half of his blood. You take away half of his life if you take away one-quatter of his blood, you take away one-quarter of his life; and so on, down to the least fractional proportion. Here is a perfect illustration of the gentleman's abstraction - 'the very thing. 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.