The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-05-16
REMOVAL OF THE CAPT.
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SPEECH OF DICK YATES.

On Tuesday last the Hon. Richard Yates
made rambling but characteristic speech
on the removal of the national capital
We publish below as much of his speech
as has any connection with the subject dis
cussed. He said:
Sir, somebody asked the time when this
capital would be removed. l answer Il
here to-day that the capital Of the United
States Of America will be removed In less
than ten years from this time. These are
not idle words. 1t was u much longer
period in which Ipredicted the abolition
of slavery but It came around in the course
of human events.
What will remove this capital2 I have
no particular feeling against the people of
Washington. ] admit that perhaps forty
or fifty thousand Of our noble dead are
buried here, and their memories are TO be
cherished as much as they are upon the
banks of the Father of Waters or on tho
Tennessee; for they sll sleep in sacred
graves. But, sir, the little State of Illinois,
II you call her little sent two hundred and
and fifty eight thousand mon to this war, oil
of whom regarded Washington and lis insti-
tutions and its history o. much as the peo-
pie here do, and perhaps more.
The reason why the capital Of the United
States will be removed 10, TO come TO the
fact, that this is Government Of MAORI.
ties ours 10 q Government where the ma
jority rules; and where the power is there
IL the legislation Of this country, and when
the voice Of the people comes up for .
measure il must and will be adopted.
Well, sir, the center Of our continent Is
upon the Mississippi river; the power Of
empire Is there; the center Of our trade
and commerce and business Is there. There
center the railroad communications and
| enterprises of this country. The South
will come up with one united voice for the
Establishment Of the capital Of the nation
at st. Louis, or At Quincy, or at some
point upon the Father Of Waters
where We have communication 10 the
Gulf, and with foreign Powers, and mar
kets for our cotton, our grain and our pro-
auctions OF all kinds. Besides our con-
nection with the East by thousands and
hundreds Of thousands OF miles Of rail-
road all concentrate there within belt Of
four hundred miles, controlling and TO con.
troll the destiny Of this country.
Why, Mr.. President the removal Of the
capital has been sncered at but let me as
sure Senators that ridicule, sarcasm, sneers
are nothing when you have to meet the
voice Of the millions Of the people of the
United States who say that now the cspi-
| Ia, Is not central, as when the war began
| the capital WAS not In the center ofa loyal
population. II should be In the interior,
where men will rally around IT, stand BY
| II, and support Il. The capital should be
| the commerce Of the country. These are
/ the svhirh "a % ncuSoI Sk~
| investigation Of this subject. Notwith-
standing these marble halls and these pub
lie buildings, magnificent In architecture
and constitution, yet Il IL manifest destiny
that the capital OF the United States must
and will be removed.
will say that myself have not agitA-
ted -..this.. question Of the IsmSysbb r n
There is tide in human affairs when IL IL
right TO strike for such a question. Al.
ready the voice ofthe N orthwest and Of DOR.
tions Of the South show that people 20 be
alive to this question. You may treat
this A. an idle matter IL you choose, but
hope that the Senator from Massschu.
sets Mr.. Sumnerl in his fourth torn will
stand by his desk upon the banks Of the
Mississippi and utter forth his theories,
his speculations, his desires, and his argue
ments in favor Of human liberty. When
he gets out there, gets away from his be-
loved Observation-Disclosures in all re-
spects in her institutions Of education and
religion and morals, and imagines that
while he is SO surrounded all the world Is
as happy and blessed ms he is-hs will
find that further West, on those bleak
plains aud on those hillsides and on these
little brooks where the cabins are, and
upon the tops Of the mountains where the
poor men reside-he will find thcre per-
haps u wider theater for his great and
noble eloquence and for the dissem nation
of education and the principles which are
to maintain and preserve this Government.