As things are now, all the money spent for docks, for instance, is charged against the city in calculatin' the debt limit, although the Dock Department provides immense revenues.

It's the same with some other departments.

This humbug would be dropped if Tammany ruled at the Capitol and the City Hall, and the city would have money to burn.
Another thing--the constitution of the new state wouldn't have a word about civil service, and if any man dared to introduce any kind of a civil service bill in the Legislature, he would be fired out the window.
Then we would have government of the people by the people who were elected to govern them.

That's the kind of government Lincoln meant.

0 what a glorious future for the city! Whenever I think of it I feel like goin' out and celebratin', and I'm really almost sorry that I don't drink.
You may ask what would become of the upstate people if New York City left them in the lurch and went into the State business on its own account.