Identifier: picturesquewas00moor (find matches)
Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence : J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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houldchange their votes. But it was observed that this pill would bepeculiarly bitter to the Southern States, and that some concomitantmeasure should be adopted to sweeten it a little to them. There hadbeen before, propositions to fix the seat of government either at Phil-adelphia or at Georgetown on the Potomac ; and it was thought bygiving it to Philadelphia for ten years and to Georgetown perma-nently afterwards, this might act as an anodyne, and calm in somemeasure the ferment which might be excited by the other measurealone. So two of the Potomac members agreed to change their votes,and Hamilton undertook to carry the other point. In doing this theinfluence he had established over the Eastern members effected hisside of the engagement, and so the Assumption was passed. Thus it was, that a good dinner and the sagacity of two able menhealed a serious breach in the affairs of the Nation, and placed thecapital city on the banks of the River of Swans, as the Indianscalled the Potomac.
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CHAPTER II. FOUNDING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL —LENFANTS PLAN OF WASHINGTON —THEORIGINAL PROPRIETORS OF THE LAND—A LOVELY HEIRESS, AND HER WOO-ERS—REMOVAL OF THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT TO THE CAPITAL CITY—HISTORICAL SKETCHES —THE BRITISH INVASION —PECULIAR MANNERS ANDCUSTOMS OF THE EARLY DAYS — GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY—THE CIVIL WAR. . WHEN President Washington returned from his tour of theSouth in the summer of 1791, and the wheels of thefamous cream-colored chariot in which he had taken thememorable ride of i ,900 miles rolled up to the westerndoor of the Mount Vernon mansion, he found a visitor awaiting hiscoming. The visitor was Maj. Pierre Charles LEnfant, a skillfulFrench engineer, who had been chosen to draw the plan of the newFederal town. The site of the Federal District had been selected byWashington in the January previous, after long and careful delibera-tion, from the 105 miles of territory embraced in the boundary definedby the act of Congress locating th

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