. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . n, Seward, Wash-burne, Everett, Fish, Evarts, and Blaine. Smaller, buthardly less elegant in appearance, is the diplomatic ante-room Avhere foreign dignitaries await an audience with theSecretary. In a large department on the third floor is the Libraryof the Department of State, consis
. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . n, Seward, Wash-burne, Everett, Fish, Evarts, and Blaine. Smaller, buthardly less elegant in appearance, is the diplomatic ante-room Avhere foreign dignitaries await an audience with theSecretary. In a large department on the third floor is the Libraryof the Department of State, consisting of many rare andvaluable volumes upon international and foreign , carefully preserved, in the iron hall of the library, arevaluable heirlooms of the nation. The most precious of thearcllives — the two great charters — the Declaration of In-dependence and the Constitution of the United States — arepreserved in a steel case. It is not commonly known thatthe Secretary of State forbade their transmission to Chicagofor exhibition at the Worlds Fair at the risk of a railwayaccident in transit and fire after their arrival — hazards suffi-ciently apparent and by no means trivial. The Declaration had come to the Department of Statefrom the Continental Congress. It was subjected to a pro-. THE LIBRARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF the steel safe in which ate deposited the originals of the Declaration of Inde-pendente and the Constitution of the United States, now no longer exhibited to the rare and valuable volumes are deposited here. A PRICELESS POSSESSION, 191 cess early in the century in securing a facsimile for a copper-plate, that caused the ink to fade and the parchment todeteriorate. On the 11th of June, 1841, it was deposited inthe Patent Office, and afterwards placed on exhibition in theInterior Department, in a brilliant light, causing furtherdimness and decay. It was returned to the Department ofState in March, 18 77, upon the complet
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