Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-05-18
Horace Greeley and washington.

Mr.. Horace Greeley is again on the rampage
concerning the removal of the capital. Like
the abOlishing Of the Thanking privilege this is
bobby with him OF which he never tires. In the
Tribune OF Friday last he complained at length
and in q most unreasonable manner of the re-
cent Senate vote to build q State Department
and complete the Capitol grounds. His objec-
tions were. in brief, as follows:
l. The nation ceanot Afford the approximation.
III. The agitation of the removal of the capt.
tai Is serious and formidable In the great West.
Ill Accessions Of territory demand q recon-
sideration OF the location Of the capital
~. The location Of the capital should be one
profering cheap and swift transportation to
every part OF the country, sc.
v a government should accept the national
metropolis and never undertake to create one.
VI. New York is the national and proper
Capital of the Union. ;.
VII. New York does not aspire to be the can
ital. .
WILL grand committee Of Congress should
De constituted by joint action of the two
Houses, to which the subject should be referred,
and until the subject shall have been duly con-
sidered and settled, We Horace Greedy protest
against any further expenditure of public
money in the purchase of additional grounds,
or the erection OF new government structures in
Washington.
In all this, as in much that he talks of. Mr..
Greeley argues upon false and wholly unwar-
rantable premises. OF his eight conclusions
scarcely one Is correct. The nation can we'll
afford the appropriations in question, and would
have approved them some years since. The
need Of q new State Department. building Ia 30
imperative that one cannot see how any one In
his right mind can question it; and the cendi-
ton Of the Capitol grounds has to this time been
simply disgracefaL ,,- II.
The agitation Of the removal Of the capital
IN the Crest West is neither serious nor formid-
able, but, on the contrary, the.vork Of few in
terested men, Accessions Of territory have not
made q reconsideration Of the location of the
capital necessary, but on the contrary have
rather established the fitness Of the present site.
There Is propristy in Mr.. 6reeieys fourth
suggestion, and 1t tests with Congress 10 AFFORD
such faculties TO Washington. They can be had
AT any time with much less announcement than
has been given the Western States to proviae
them p - =
To the fifth suggestion, We reply that No ma
has proposed to make washington tia pation.,
metropolis, but simply what it should be-a civ
worthy to be the capital Of great nation. -
That New York Is the natural and proper cap
nh OF the Union may be Mr.. Greeley's opinion,
put ne knows that the few who are agitatine q
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grand committee Of Congress- wouId he
good thing, did the people. or anv nu.h., ~
them, really desire the removal Of tia can,tsl.
but We protest. against any such committea AZ
this time, and, further, We protest szaIn,t the
stoppage Of al public expenditure IN V..h.
ington, because Mr.. Horace Greeley and a fsv
western agitators think the capital should Az
some future time be removed
We trust Congress win turn deaf ear to sueh
appeals as those Of the frf5sHe, which win not
bear the test Of truth, and are evidently pat
forth IN narrow and vindictive spirit. In that
Journal for Tuesday We and . esll from
certain western men, Of little note, ex-
cepting for their connection with visionary
and impracticable movements for Q grand
convention, to be held at Cincinnati in October
next, to consider the question of removing the
capital. Mr. Greeley, Of course, cordially en-