The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1869-11-10
The National Capital.

The question of the removal OF the Ma
,ional Capital is being freely discussed and
in such manner that it is evident that a
strong party is favoring the measure. The
question is beginning to assume a sectional
form, and sentiment is formed more BY geo
graphical positions than aught else. Inc
West complains that it has been wronged I! y
by the East. By the east " is meant all
those States east of the Blue Ridge. The
New York Tribune in discussing this sub
ject well says: is''''ss'''
IF the Capital of the United States is to
be removed to the Valley of the West, or,
indeed, to any other location, it is, for a
hundred reasons, desirable that all prclim-
mary discussions of the measure should be
conducted in an amicable spirit, and that
all sectional feeling regarding the question
should, for the sake Of our future safety, be
discouraged. We therefore regret to find
one or two gentlemen in the convention at
st. Louis talking in tone of semi-secession,
and using kind of argument which too
much resembles threatening. The pre-
sence of Mr.. Stuart, of Alabama, in the
Convention was, to say the least, ominous,
for Mr.. Stuart was a noted secessionist,
and he took no pains to conceal the fact
from the delegates, but avowed it with an
unpleasant sort of bravado. Again, Mr..
Hagan, of st. Louis, was exceedingly vio-
lent in his denunciation of the Eastern
States, from which he claimed that the West
land South also) had suffered nothing
but wrong and outrage" It is no wonder
that the Ewarmest friends of the East and
Southwest were alarmed by the turn which
the discussions were taking, or that Gov.
Pile of New Mexico, advised the convention
not to provoke the enmity of the West until
it knew better the real state of Eastern opin-
ion. The "wrong and outrage" which the
West has suffered at the hands of the sea
board States has consisted mainly in an I'M
limited supply of money and an equally
unlimited supply of men, without which
there would have been no West to speak
of at all. However, until it is absolutely
necessary, we shall not suffer ourselves to
be BETRAYED into recrimination. The mat
ter is too important for passionate consid-
Grafton"
If the removal of the Capital is ncces-
sary to the good of the nation, we are will
ing that it should be moved; but, in order
to prevent further squabbling upon the SUBJ
iect, we insist that it shall be at once loca-
ted at or near the centre of the country.
This place we have, by referring
to the map, found to be Council
Grove in Kansas. We are for Council
Grove, whose name alone indicates that it is
exactly fitted for the councils of the nation
to be there held Here whre the noble but
dirty red man smoked the calumet around the
council fires Of the Piggywiggywatamies,
the less noble but far dirtier Sachem of the
Tribe of Tammany can drink his fire-watcr,
white his seat, and sell his vote to the
highest bidder. We don't care for sur
roundings-Council Grove is the place.
True it may be somewhat sparsely settled
now, but the moment it is announced that
Congress will meet there, the rum-sellers,
faro dealers, claim-agents, hotel-keepers,
old clo' men and lobbyists will flock west
ward, and Council Grove will be big city,
and may in time hope to rival Washington
in inaccessibility, dirt, mud and wickedness.
'Rah for Council Grove!