. Book of the Royal blue . Mary-land made a similar tender of land and;^180,000 in cash with which to erect build-ings if Annapolis should be chosen. Thiswas before the days of steam; travel on landwas by stage coach or on horseback, and onwater by sail boats, and it was deemedadvisable to secure a place which was notonly near the center of population, butwhile being inland and on navigable water,should not be too accessible to an enemy orexposed to attacks from hostile navies in 6 THE WORLDS SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION AT WASHINGTON case of war. Some shrewd diplomacy wasnecessary and Alexander H
. Book of the Royal blue . Mary-land made a similar tender of land and;^180,000 in cash with which to erect build-ings if Annapolis should be chosen. Thiswas before the days of steam; travel on landwas by stage coach or on horseback, and onwater by sail boats, and it was deemedadvisable to secure a place which was notonly near the center of population, butwhile being inland and on navigable water,should not be too accessible to an enemy orexposed to attacks from hostile navies in 6 THE WORLDS SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION AT WASHINGTON case of war. Some shrewd diplomacy wasnecessary and Alexander Hamilton is credit-ed with bringing about the legislation whichresulted in the choice of the present problems connected with the formingof a new nation out of thirteen States, all assume this debt had been defeated by thevotes of Southern members, upon whoseconstituents the burden was light. Thecountry contained over 4,000,000 of people,of which number the entire New EnglandStates, together with New York and Penn-. PEACE MONUMENT, NEAR CAPITOL (UiOUNDS with separate interests, and each fearful ofconceding too much, was not an easy oneto solve. One of the questions involved was thepayment of the war debt of the colonies,over $20,000,000 in amount. This boreheaviest on the New England section, anda bill introduced to have the new nation sylvania, had about half. Feeling ran sohigh that the stability of the new Unionwas threatened, and Hamilton, a shrewdpolitician, managed to arrange for the votesof Southern representatives for the assump-tion of the State debts in return for thesupport of those who were deeply interestedin this, and who, having no chance to THE WORLDS SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION AT WASHINGTON secure the capital for their States, agreedto favor a Southern site. Pennsylvania was brought into the bar-gain by a provision that the seat of govern-ment should remain in Philadelphia for tenyears, and on July 9, 1790, by a vote of tal in having the present location c
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