The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-09-10

tuo coocuF1onco Of tuo people tnefoin
have Furnished code Of law and
practice alike Of . national and state
character that OF the laws oi
nations binding on AL the commun-
tiles composing the states and terri
tories Of this great republic, which
the people of Colorado cannot afford
to disregard, because 1t is their inter-
est to obey.
The United States became inde-
| pendent OF Great Britain by the term
nation Of the revolutionary war de-
| clAred in 1776 and the surrender ol
| the British sword Of CornWailis at
Yorktown, to the American Wash
fnEton. Thus ~ nos that the British
| Cola6f6o baon IA Unfted Staten-
. power on earth with the right tc
make laws and customs binding on
themselves throughout their own
territories.
In the exercise of this sovereign
power our congress At Philadelphia
proceeded to locate and establish .
permanent seat of government for
the United States. At that time their
chief cities were located upon the
Atlantic coast. New York. Philadel-
phia, Boston, Providence, Portland,
Baltimore, Jamestown, Charleston,
Wilmington, Savannah and Mobile
were their great commercial sea
ports. The Philadelphians claimed
the permanent seat of government by
reason of its temporary location there
rs do the men of Denver in Colorado
now. New York, Boston and other
towns asserted their claims as do
Pueblo, Colorado Springs and other
towns here. But the American con-
gress of that day with George WASH
ington. the father OF his country, in
their lead turned deaf ear to Phila-
delphia and all the great and beauti-
ful border cities Of the sea coast and
located their seat of federal govern
ment In the far interior of the United
States without the Jurisdiction of
any state, territory or city, on . poor
tract of land ten miles square called
the District of Columbia. The pur-
pose of these pure and elevated
statesmen was to isolate the new fed
eral government from the interested
influence of all the great cities of the
several states because congress- was
to legislate for each and all the states
and cities alike. And they determine
ed that the legislation of congress
and the official acts of its judicial and
executive departments should be free
from all the selfish and corrupting
purposes of interested parties.
This was the public policy Of the
United States as . general govern
ment and of each of the states as sep
arate governments ON the subject of
locating permanent seats of govern
ment within the Jurisdiction and liSn-,
IN number, then represented IN con-
rress gave their c0nsent by laws
passed for the purpose of making
Washington the seat of government
of the United States. Here then we
find the public policy of the states in
dividualiy and of the United States
generally ON this subject expressing
the sovereign public will and the rea-
son for It in locating seats of govern
ment, state and national.
Now what have been the precedents
set by the several states under this
national law. When and how and
where have their capitals been To-
Gated. In Pennsylvania the state
capital was removed from Philadel-
phia, her great sea port city, to the
little interior town of Harrisburgh.
In cosmopolitan New York from her
great commercial sea port of that
name to the interior town of Albany.
In South Carolina from her metropol-
itan city of Charleston to the little
interior town of Columbia. In North
Carolina from sea port Wilmington
to interior Raleigh. In Maryland
from sea board Baltimore to interior
Annapolis. In Georgia not in her
great commercial city OF Savannah
but at the small interior town OF
Milledgeville, and lately removed to
| the more central city Of Atlanta. In
Alabama not in the beautiful sea
coast city of Mobile, but at the in
terror town of Montgomery. In Ten
nessee not at her great border city OF
Memphis but at the interior town OF
Nashville. In Louisiana not at the
great southern commercial New Or
| leans but at the little interior town
| of Baton Rouge. In Mississippi NOT
at her commercial border cities oi
Natchez and Vicksburg but in the
central interior, in the wild woods oi
Pearl river on public land, two sec
tions OF which was afterwards donat
ed by congress to the state for . seat
Of government. In Kentucky not al
her great and gorgeous city OF Louis
Vile but ut the little interior town oi
Frankfort. In Ohio not It her greal
1 city Of cities s-Ciucinnatf, but At the
then little interior towa Of Column
bus. In ItllnOla not NJ her OooutIu
queen city of Chicago, but at theil
interior village of Springfield. II
Missouri not at her great metropoiii
or 81. Louis but at the interior towI
Of Jof7srson city. In California mo-
at San Erapcisco the golden gate city
Of the Pacific but 1t ittlc interior
4 Sacramento. In Texas, the lone stal
state Of the republic, not ~ her grea
sea port, Galveston. but In far int
rior at tho base OF her mountai'
ranxes, at tho central town Of Austil
where the Colorado comes roaring
down her mountain caiions like tn
/ Arkansas river down our own Grans
oaiaon TO the gate city Of the Rock,
mountains.
!! Numerous other states might b
! cited a. preccdents TO the same exec
, | and al based on tho great American
, public policy ON this subject BY tn
| congross Of the United States, an
uniformly adhered 10 by the incom
| Ing stntcs for IN entire century .
| our national lifo. Such 10 the lav
| and such Il tho legislatlons such a
+ popular precedcnts on this subject.
ii Dare hstle presumptucas Dcnvo
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