Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1869 — Removal of the National Capital. [ARTICLE]

Removal of the National Capital.

THa question of removing tlt«i national capital from Washington is being vigorously agitated by the leading newspapers of the North* western States. A convention of those interested in the matter has been called to meet at St. Louis on the 20th of October to unite on aoinc plan of action nnd arrange the preliminaries. Several cities have already put in bids for the honor of becoming .the depository of the nation's archives, but none of the claims set up have, in our opinion been superior to those possessed by our own thriving town. Rensselaer is beautifully located, is a central point, lias plenty of room to expand, there are half a doxen fine springs of both white and blue sulphur water, and the town parental relatives are talking of boring an artesian well with a fine prospect of striking whiskey, indications of which crop out -it various places in the vicinity.— With plenty of fine water and a good flowing well of fortyrod our claims, advantages ami inducements arc quite beyond rivalry.— Let the town council go to work at once boring for artesian whiskey that it may he found before the 20th of October, and then with a proper advocate to urge our claims there is no question as to the result.