Excerpt from Navy Appropriation Bill: Speech of Hon. Jno; R. M'bride, of Oregon, on the Navy Appropriation Bill, Delivered in the House of Representatives Feb 19, 1864 The committee are far from thinking that war is the rightful remedy for our national troubles; 'they believe' the reverse to be 'true &c. 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.