Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-03-16
"Ibe Ncmadfe CAPITAL 3,

Undsr this head the Cincinnati Gasett, pokss
unkint fun at the raving Reayisites, whose
Prettiest and most forcible argument in favor
or capital re mOysl Is the analogue contained in
Their Congressional memorial) about the body
Tolitic and the heart OF the animal body. This
- the neat little figure of the Resvisites:
The Creator has placed the heart in the
center OF our bodies for the perfection of the
circulation Of the blood, whose function il is TO
Nitahze and warm our systems; and so a poiit-
lcai seat OF representative system like ours
should be l2eated At the heart of the country,
where the ebb and flow OF the tides aud currents
OF public opinion will traverse the most direct
routes rom the center to the extren mites AMI
bsek sSaln. Sueh central location OF the
polilcal power Of a representative government
WI dc much tn preserve the nation AGAINST ALI
forms OF anarchy or despotism. Tie grayest
lomicE CONSIDERATIONS point 20 the establish
ment OF central national capital as one OF the
necessary safeguards for the preservation of a
representative form OF government"
Asthe junction OF the heart Is to vitalizs and
warm our bodies, SO the function of the e.pital
IL TO give vital heat to our political system, per-
mesting il with the warm currents OF patronage.
and keeping the whole body polite alive with
the central pulsations- And, a. in the progress
OF animal development, each individual Is an ex-
tension from central nucleus, 80 the politica,
system should be merely the limbs and outward
sppurtensnces OF the political capital The idea
OF having cur entire national system yitahzed.
cleapsed, warmed and rsgenerated BY the cur
rents from the capital is very pretty; bnt in
point OF fact all the central reasons are against
the Mississippi river, and point straight to Gin
cinnati-
Cincinnati don't want the capital, the Ga-,Y,
Gays, but, IL central reasons are to govern, IL
will be forced upon her. The geological strata,
the cOnfguration, the topography, the isothsr-
NAL lines, the tendency Of human movement.
all show that az Cincinnati will be the center Of
the commerce, manufactures, mineral resources,
population, productions, wealth, civilization
and political movements of this continent.
The admirable map laid before the convention
at Cincinnati BY the Andes Insurance Com.
pany shows that q circle, OF which Cincinnati is
the center, will take in all the most productive,
most mineral and most populous and wealthy
portion Of this continent And Is for future
movement We have now reached the sea on the
west, and except the Feejee Islands, which are
valuable for their mermaids, there are no desir-
able Islands open TO purchase; while on the east
the San Domingo Ethiopia is stretching ont her
arms to Us, desiring to be bought, and this is re-
gHded as the acquisition OF the whole island.
and the beginning of the policy OF taking In the
whole Antilles. Shall We require the reprssen-
tatives of our future tropical fellow citizens,
after enduring the perils Of q sea voyage in
the steersge, to pursue the devious and weary
way in emigrant cars to St. Louis, or Peoria, or
Cairo, or some other town on the Mississippi,
bothsring heads with geographical inquiries
that should be filed with questions of states.
msnship and with great moral ideas? Perish
the thought And 50 the Gazette insists that if
the capital is to be placed at the great ationaI
heart it must 60 to Cincinnati and not to out-of-
the-vay, infelicitOus st. Louis.
Certainly