Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . )ewhich commands a view of the very large and substantially levelground east of the capitol where, by this plan, the city was to bebuilt. But this level tract took in a large piece of the groundbelonging to Mr. Carroll, and some belonging to the Custis this account, Edmund Randolph, Washingtons attorney-general,attacked him in a j^^mpldet, which was the mode of political warfarein those days. He urged that the location of the capital, and esp
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . )ewhich commands a view of the very large and substantially levelground east of the capitol where, by this plan, the city was to bebuilt. But this level tract took in a large piece of the groundbelonging to Mr. Carroll, and some belonging to the Custis this account, Edmund Randolph, Washingtons attorney-general,attacked him in a j^^mpldet, which was the mode of political warfarein those days. He urged that the location of the capital, and espe-cially the plan of the city, was simply the result of nepotism on thepart of the President, who desired to give great value by the BUTLERS BOOK. 185 i^k_^J:^.-?^•:!^.>^:!r-!^.> %-. / . orfolk ^j/l- ..!\ Pr-AjineCH Copjriglileil. 186 BUTLERS BOOK. location to the lands of his relatives, the Custises and Carrolls;Randolph proceeded further and said that there was no reason for itslocation there, military or other; that militarily Washington wasa ver}- bad point to be fortified or defended; that large ships couldnever get up into the eastern branch, where is now the navy yard,on account of the loAvness of the tides, and if they could they wouldbe easily stopped by small batteries erected by the people along thebanks overlooking the shallow and crooked channels; that no com-merce could come to Washington, and therefore there could be noother motive than a corrupt one to influence the President to placethe capital where he did. The attack was exceedingly coarse and severe. The man whoacted as Washingtons assistant engineer in laying out the city, andlocating the public buildings, and more than possibly in advisingthe choice of the site, was Major LEnfant, a very able
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