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Excerpt from Street Talk: Ordinance of Councils, Passed the 11th July, 1844, Organizing a Military Force for the Government of Philadelphia This force, it will be observed, is not to be a mere body of men, armed with deadly weapons-some troops of horse, or a squadron of foot, it is to be a small army - what military men recognize as technically an army. There is the infantry, there is the artillery, and there is the cavalry; add a corps of sap pers and miners, and the army of Philadelphia, raised by the town council, would be more complete in all its members, than was the army of the United States, raised by Congress, which invaded Canada, in 1813. The city government, except for such soft purposes as picking up fractious ladies, and collaring candidates for the House of Refuge, and perchance of dealing with a few pickpockets and burglars, has turned over to a full regiment of infantry, a full battalion of artillery, and one or more full troops of cavalry, with suitable ammunition and stores, the whole care of what they call the public peace, in times of intestine commotion. What commotion is intestinal, accord ing to the Ordinance, the authorities are to decide, and due re gard being bad to the opinion of their patient's condition, which they seem to entertain, we may believe that they will be full apt to conclude that any commotion will be intestinal enough to make a fire-arms case. 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.

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