Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. Tristam Burges, of Rhode Island: At the Public Dinner Given Him by the Citizens of New-York, March 30, 1831 If this treasury bank be a bank without capital, it will not be likely to be sustained by deposits. It is to be an institution for transmitting the funds of government. To have a few officers who may sell bills of exchange to private individuals at a moderate premium. Does not this disclose the great secret of the establishment Who will be these private individuals to be accommodated at small premiums? Doubtless the same description of men, some of whom have been accommodated with small offices. That species of patronage has been all worked Up. All these offices are discounted, God only, knows at what premium, and unless some office can be estab dished to discount money or 'bills of exchange, the-great trading mystery of political buying and selling must be at a stand. Why, gentlemen, let this bank but once be opened, and customers, who have left every other department of the government without accommodation, will again be seen in crowds pressing towards Washington. Place this great carcass of pecu piary patronage out in the sunshine, and from all the different regions of our country, birds of every wing and every beak will snuff the prey and rush on to the mad carnaval, filling and darkening the air with their cla'r'nour and their flight. 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.