Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1869 — The St. Lonls Convention. [ARTICLE]

The St. Lonls Convention.

T«k Uonveatton consisted ‘of flflkicious and adroit men of boihi.ptfiticni gwNps, &na without rcTvrdncc any Kwrwn .views of theirh upon. subject Hfore that a perfect nnanimity at adnlireent prevailed upon the main, question. The resolutions adopts, strerig as tlfoy tile'lu tbhe, Were, not in sdvanosi of IM weßnetaied convictions and purpose of the Cpnven'won. ’ Nor Was there that degree 'of Weal » and jealousy;which some IWd pre upon the; point of location. Chicago was supposed by some ’to'havede--rigns upon tlie capital; and the .'delegate natien at Urge, Chicago wonM: to haye the capital come .to her. . 'JiuLCbicago would rather have the Capital at St. .Louis than at Washington, and! he.did not pee why St. Louft not rath&r have the capital al Chicago than irt wasnTngtOfr. l lt soemed to bo uifivisrsaUy conetded, pot only by the 0k Loioa nepreaegtatives, but by the delegates that 1 the hrtte position to hej taken is,-triak-. the removal of foe .fiftpital to fte. Valley is the main question, upon which all can agree, : abd this the iigmor quctalon ,°f to<atiopwaybqW t > F i Wli d ftei , 8 8ion . sdf' Ute (ttenvanUon, .ffkwted ft toftflsfo-ft, m nearly every journal ip the country, from Maihe to CrfffoHiia. The <9onsm«nts ofihVTraW- have .S» ,the nearest,points, we publish those of ' two leadingDetrbit TfapCTi^'iWffciP hail at ifirpfidfetoWei. Apt he Ine uSpital nlOvcuiCnt; DCfewethh countryrami. ila#frta«il<A«ldfvay dngtap. Svery diy add» : -W tifc uMfes of ttedtly JBipesi. srithbi.-fl fVegy-£»WJreats to witness its complete success. The New England capitalists are hiteresfed in its favrih, because theik large of and carrying interests travcrsiirg tnu neart oftbeocaatryeaflt ateAMeet’flre'MtoW'ted hatton at large » intereatedbin- ik on FtWSKM". head for our entire popnbrtsotakndiitwoft k I* the generationl9*l could inQWjfln Wcnafl of tatad of their then population to carry it to a point mote central; «n'd, in theft than New York or , we not Ipok forward to pn expense ptr capita bnflfrentlfAs’gMit, to seeWeiflheqM-ma-wntJocaMonpf jp the heart of, the ? — 1 nbuye.