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Excerpt from A Change of National Empire, or Arguments in Favor of the Removal of the National Capital From Washington City to the Mississippi Valley: Illustrated With Maps
One day I was met by an Old gentleman of mnnsterlal plochvltles, with whom I had conversed several tunes upon the subject He sald that many persons were makmg hght of my project to move the Capttal away from Waslnngton, but, sald he. I told them to not deceive them selves, that Noah preached one hund: ed and twenty I ears and the people mould not believe mm, but the flood d1d come as he had told them ll would Then and the Old gentleman to me, You keep at wolk, for a nlet-hole mll after a whlle smk a shlp. I answered him that I most cextalnly should contend for the remox al of the seat Of government to that locahty wlnch was destined to hold the balance of pow er in the Republlc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
