Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-22

inston associate In the potomac NaVlSd-
ton Company. which debouched in the Dis
trfct. He might have. against a lesser in
fuence than Washington's, upheld the coun-
try of his residence, but he did not. The
following November the President made
him associate Justice of the Supreme Court
and then offered him the chief justiceship.
His niece became the wife Of John Quincy
Adams four years before President John
ington city. The government armory was
also established among the Johnsons' fur
naces at Harper's Ferry.
Months before that removal, eleven days
before the last Christmas in the eighteenth
century. Washington died. 1 have talked
with an old man who saw him last visit this
city across Georgetown bridge, the pupils
there of Georgetown College. which is old
er than the District, presenting arms.
Gen. Washington Right, but Inter-
ested.
No Illegal act was Washington's carrying
the District into Virginia, for Congress gave
him authority by an amendment three
weeks before he met his commissioners.
The site was soon appreciated. but the city
did not grow till slavery, its old man Of the
sea. fell from it's back. Then. as King
James said. deciphering the warning letter
in the gunpowder plot, 1.-The danger Is past
as soon as you have burned the letter."
the proclamation Of Lincoln in 1862 took
the spell from Washington's capital and
- bcSoHS tlC plluc VI Tic uOTlL duU Iu6
west
General Washington appears to have been
the only Virginian Of his day to appreciate
cities He had high admiration for the
succeeding him laid no stone In Washing
ton. but reared lonesome porticoes in
waste of lands. The city Of Baltimore,
which grew after the revolution with
rap1dtfy our cities had never shown. ex-
hausted the municipal resources around US
which might have come to Washington.
W zen he was two years President, Jeffer-
son bought Louisiana and sent expeditions
through Its vast resources and drew away
the populations adjacent to Washington.
The burning of the capital was Its resusci-
to ton. national spirit sprang from indig-
Lation and was revived in the blockade Of
1861, when Annapolis became the base to
relieve both Washington and Baltimore. In
General Buffers memoirs Of that relief
find statement which l do not vouch for:
Among the considerations" he says, Ito
mold Annapolis and open the way to Wash
1ngton was my remembrance of piece of
history.
Edward Randolph, Washington's Attor-
ney General, attacked him in a pamphlet,
urging that the location of the capital, and
especially Of the city, was simply the result
OF nepotism on the part Of the President,
VINO desired to give great value by the To-
cation t" the lands Of his relatives. the Gus
tises and CAROLS (Calverts). Randolph
said there was no reason for its location
there militarily or other; that 1t was a very
bad point to be fortified or defended; that
large ships could never get up into the
Eastern branch: that no commerce could
come to Washington. and. therefore, there
could be no other motive than a corrupt
one to influence the President to place the
ca pital where he did.
Major L'Enfant replied to Randolph that
the port Of Annapolis was the port and
harbor of Washington. I was at
once put in mind,' says General Butler, "of
the advantage of holding the port of An
n he nnrt md har hn Of No oh
ton. Have you seen Randolphs pamph
let" asked Washington Of James Ross. 4
have: and by the eternal God he is the
damndest liar on the face Of the EARTH"
The City Had to Wait.
The name of Washington conferred upon
this city subject Of envy and prob
able hostility. None of Jefferson's writings
refer to the place with his normal ELUSIVE
ness. His devotees, Giles, Macon and Ma
clay, voted against an Endorsement of
Washington when he retired. and Andrew
Jackson, one of the number, vetoed, when
President, the bill to connect Washington
city with the National road. subjecting our
army. artillery and supplies to an expense
of perhaps one hundred millions In the war.
That road is not yet made.
The act to draw water from the Great
Falls for the Washington aqueduct was at
first denied by the Annapolis legislature,
which city has of late received millions for
the Naval School
In short. Washington almost alone rep
resented the nation. and therefore was a
poor ward. not to be invited into the fam
lily Of the sovereigns, the states. But this
envy was correctly interpreted by the ma
ton when 1t sprang to arms. The circle of
forts saluted Freedom on the completed
dome eight months before the war closed
Resistance to the rule of Washington
brought the population that made 1t a city
That salvo of guns was the last connec-
ton between the old ten miles square and
the half District; but in the eruption Vir-
ginia had been divided. too. l well recall
young Ellsworth, the first victim of the
war. lying In the navy yard after having
been killed in the retroceded Alexandria
But that retrocession was timely. 1t con-
centrated upon more than enough remnant
the forty millions assumed by Congress to
make the city healthy and comedy, just
to give us that credit without which
neither man nor state can have a charac-
ter
After slavery came it's negroes to the
city. They compelled the example that
Washington may yet be to misgoverned
cities-a corporation of property holders
without universal suffrage. We next want
the fruits Of freedom here-mechanical in
dustries. 80
The railroads after the war united us
with the upland region where might have
been the capital, impervious to war, album
cant In peace. cool in summer, In land
lines which stretch both south and west.
There would be an equity toward that
upper country. one hour distant with its
attitudes rising from LOCO to 800 feet above
toe, to put there the mooted summer res
dence of the executive instead of scatter
ing the ministers in hot weather beyond
telephone call. In the bill to settle this
capital the fitness of that mountain park
was recognized and its expectations aroused
and dashed. The drawing of our raiment
over Alexandria was aboH've and Wash
lnstons option to go as far as the Conoco-
cheasue might be restored with credit to
MS and our Judgment and disnterestedness
1t may never be to remove this capital, but
the battleparks two hours to our west have
become part Of the story of Washington.
Ihey washed IN blood the shield of the
city. me army Of Sheridan quilted the
mountain base and heightened the lines of
Grant around Petersburg, broke the crcum-
valuations of Richmond and kept the front
to Appomattox. Washington was both i'm
periled and saved from the Conococheague.
GEN. MacARTHUR'S PLANS.