Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. William Gaston of North Carolina: On the Bill to Authorise a Loan of Twenty-Five Millions of Dollars Delivered in the House of Representatives, February, 1814 I fear I em about to engage in 1} Very injudicious attempts I fear that the patience of the committee is exhausted, and that it would be idle to hope for their attention. It was originally my wish2 to claim their notice at an early stage of the debate; but I found this wish was not to be efl'ectetl, but by a competition for the floor, and I thought such a competition not justified by the nature of the remarks whichi had to submit. Under these im pressions I had made up my mind to wait until some favorable un occupied interval should be presented; and I should not now have presumed to anticipate other gentlemen, who seem disposed to' address you, but for some extraordinary observations which have just been uttered, and which in my opinion demand immediate anie madversion. 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.