Tarry at home travels . toknow or to care. Is it worth while to say in pass-ing that Oliver Goldsmiths trunk of clothes andof books went to Wilmington in North Carolinain the year 1722, that he never got them backagain, and that possibly in some cellar in Wil-mington to-day there might be found some poemsof Goldsmiths which would be worthy the atten-tion of Harpefs or the Century or Mr. McClure? To return to the city of Washington. It seemsprobable that George Washington selected Capi-tol Hill for the site of the Capitol of the newnation. It is the same hill on which threewitches are represent
Tarry at home travels . toknow or to care. Is it worth while to say in pass-ing that Oliver Goldsmiths trunk of clothes andof books went to Wilmington in North Carolinain the year 1722, that he never got them backagain, and that possibly in some cellar in Wil-mington to-day there might be found some poemsof Goldsmiths which would be worthy the atten-tion of Harpefs or the Century or Mr. McClure? To return to the city of Washington. It seemsprobable that George Washington selected Capi-tol Hill for the site of the Capitol of the newnation. It is the same hill on which threewitches are represented in my own ballad askindling the flame on the night of February 11(22), 1732. But, for the benefit of the NewYork Observer, I will say that the existence ofthese witches is mythical. There is no evidence WASHINGTON THEN AND NOW 357 that they did not exist excepting in poetry, andthere is no evidence that they did. All that isnecessary to say is that, if they did, they werethere about the time when Colonel Jack was on. View of the Potomac and the Site of Washington in 1800. the same ground, and that they are persons quiteas historical as he is. The congressional battle over and the Presidenthaving selected that site, Congress passed thenecessary acts by which the District of Colum-bia was laid out, ten miles square, to be the homeof the new city. When people growl to-day, asthey do in the District here, that they are not 358 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS allowed to govern themselves by universal suffrage,this is to be said, Every one who has ever comehere from the outside has come on that under-standing. Thus, the Congress of 1790 hadits eyes open and created a federal city withreasons which they thought good. The Con-gress of the Confederation had once and againbeen insulted by mobs in the city of in London had been lately insultedby London mobs. In France the Paris mob hadagain and again shown that it could change themap of Europe, not to say of the world. Wh
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