Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1869 — The Capital Convention. [ARTICLE]

The Capital Convention.

Tms National Capital Convention, recently dn session at Bt. Louis, itnsmfmousiy adopted the following resolutions^ WHKRKis, TU<: pn:aei;t sift: of the Natioiisl Cault*l was selected ss the most central point wheh too people of this Republic, only a few millipas in Humtier, inliabiicd ouly a narrow strip of country along the Atlantic coast;.and, . . - WimtKAS. Too popnlatienof tMsconhfry has increased thirteen fold since theft, and .sorcad »«sr s vast continent, Ijf which ino 'States lu cxtdjsnce when Ui« real uf;fovtrnsMnt was toon tod form only th« eastern ed«e: and, Wuebeis. The present location Of the'Nationd Capital Is notoriously inconvenient in times of peace, aud ae the darkest stages of our ustlSnal history demonstrate in time of. war or domestic turnuleice .1* »o dangerously tnpoeSd, as lo' require lur Wiu uatA;s’ue. roasone whieh:cna>e4 the location or the scat of government where It now is, by the enormous development- of the conn-' sna'the corresponding change IA tne want* of .the poopiM, bsyome utterjy olwcdete: therefore, Ruolctd, Tliut ft is ahenrd to suppose that tha, handful or inhabitantslAdTMr; Just emerging from mile of turnpike or canal constructed, possessed, tho atthority or dcstoW 10 -eimrtlse Use flower of huudrede uf ) milduus who mlgkt como gflsg them. R**olV"l, That, the people have endured the ptoaont ill-located Capital for ttoen-qfctfSSlh sos • century, patiently waiting for the vast teixiuay at the Union to be peopled and organized Into States, and unUl the centre ot population, area and wealth oolilj he determined, wheh a permanent place of residence for. tho government could be selected. That time has conic. AH *eet!«iniri tames are sets' tied; pli dangerous damentic variations are dkmosed cen entered tipon and a new dcrights of the community is the basis of republics.'’ it wo consider the affects of lagWotlva power on use, taasassweis wssss; and HghU< of the people so loogas tho-CapHal l? os the Mississippi Valley must for all urns ba the seat of empire of this continent, and exert the coo-sunilus-fcusi-proiWicleg portion of tha continent, . Tbisiifimense fbaeiu mfuoß hapfcj nuqdwass outlets and channels ot Cheap and, swift communications, • by-wateß sAd Salt With the Mhboard fpr’the' Mews that tends ho mulUply. Improva or efflarglto— S arwjftltbr WHjthose of ’ ~!T ,

' Retailie«, Th*t the net uni convenient toil Mv|. ttW" |>UC« forth* Creltal of lit llopubile Is In the hetrt of tiiln valley, whore populafMt, ■ altthMe of brave aud,Uoion*lovjUig eltlaeue. would be Trevor Sale agalnat foreign roe* or nactlootf eedltlone, <uid where it would need netthee krmhhMnU nor ■tending armlox for lte protection. . Retolvrd, Thrt whll* odvocatinff-ihe removal of the neat or government to the JftiwliMippl Valley, we do not moon to nerve the Uteroste es any pertlculor locality, but that we urge ConoreM to appoint a communion for the pnrpoedwreefcetlng a convenient nlto for the National Capital In taw great Valloy of the MlwMlDdlT' v ” •^ Retolved, That In urging the removal of IhOiMa* tlonal Capital from Its praeent Inconvenient, out-of-the-way, ahd exposed locality on the extreme border of the Union, we ere Hi oar Met, and riha.l not CCSHO In our effort* until that end la aoeomtilhhcd, firmly believing that) the otMOhite Seceiwlty of the removal will liecomo aioro apparent every d»y, and the majority of the American people will not dtiirt P aMed 1 • to bo Resolved, That the removal of tho Capital being only a (inottlon of time, wo ompmttfduly oppose ana condemn all expenditures .of'mdDey fcr the enlargement of old gtfvemniont bnlMlhg* and tho eroctfon ?f new yne« fit Urn prevent neat pf the National Government a» a nddlbss and Wanton waste of theneppettyf ttpipyopto.. nrt - The President of the - n-1 noancedthff following National Executive Cqmmittee, vfhpM: function* arto to be to kfeep up the agitation of the removal of tho Capital, and toput ertlfch measures in operation aeWill effect this 6MSct. C. E. SSHO# l John Cohaenj Indiana i. H. G, Wremoufo, Louisiana; S. N. Bt,uart, Alabama; Wto. A. Pile, New Mexfeo ;,T. G. Juggte, Pennsylvania ; A.’ j,< KillaT, B. B. Churchill, Kentucky l Wau Gilpin, Colorado; E. 8. Hubbard, Alaska: Thomas Moonlight, Kansas.; Alvin SatindersL Nebraska; Thos. E. Tutt, Montana; C. G. Forsh'c, TeiOs; C.H. HeiApstead, TJtah. This Committee crmaSsts of one delegate from each Btate and Territory represented In tne CdnvdAtlon, aha, among other things, will issue an address ks the people of the Republic. . ~r i ...