Why, I know a lot of men in my district who would like nothin' better today than to go out gunnin' for hayseeds! New York City has got a bigger population than most of the states in the Union.

It's got more wealth than any dozen of them.

Yet the people here, as I explained before, are nothin' but slaves of the Albany gang.

We have stood the slavery a long, long time, but the uprisin' is near at hand.

It will be a fight for liberty, just like the American Revolution.
We'll get liberty peacefully if we can; by cruel war if we must.
Just think how lovely things would be here if we had a Tammany Governor and Legislature meetin', say in the neighborhood of Fifty-ninth Street, and a Tammany Mayor and Board of Aldermen doin' business in City Hall! How sweet and peaceful everything would go on! The people wouldn't have to bother about nothin'.