The Washington and Georgetown Directory: Strangers' Guidebook for Washington, and Congressional and Clerks' RegisterKirkwood & McGill, 1853 - 448 Seiten |
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Seite 72 - I mean stock to remain in this country, to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Seite 65 - It would be unbecoming the Representatives of this nation to assemble, for the first time, in this solemn temple, without looking up to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, and imploring his blessing. May this Territory be the residence of virtue and happiness ! In this city may that piety and virtue, that wisdom and magnanimity, that constancy and selfgovernment which adorned the great character whose name it bears, be forever held in veneration...
Seite 60 - Branch and so upwards to, or above the ferry including a breadth of about a mile and a half, the whole containing from three to five thousand acres is ceded to the public on condition, that when the whole shall be surveyed and laid off as a city (which Major L'Enfant is now directed to do...
Seite 65 - You will consider it as the capital of a great nation advancing with unexampled rapidity in arts, in commerce, in wealth, and in population, and possessing within itself those energies and resources which, if not thrown away or lamentably misdirected, will secure to it a long course of prosperity and self-government.
Seite 63 - By the same survey, it appears that the land, comprising the Capitol Hill, was called Rome or Room, two names which seem to have foreshadowed the destiny of the place. Mr. Force, of Washington, suggests that they probably originated in the fact that the name of the owner of the estate was Pope, and, in selecting a name for his plantation, he fancied the title of "Pope of Rome.
Seite 62 - The President of the United States, and his attendant brethren, ascended from the cavazion to the east of the corner-stone, and there the Grand Master PT, elevated on a triple rostrum, delivered an oration fitting the occasion, which was received with brotherly love and commendation.
Seite 65 - I congratulate the people of the United States on the assembling of Congress at the permanent seat of their Government, and I congratulate you, gentlemen, on the prospect of a residence not to be changed.
Seite 60 - A more beautiful site for a city could hardly be obtained. From a point where the Potomac, at a distance of 295 miles from the ocean, and flowing from North-west to South-east, expands to the width of a mile, extended back an almost level plain, hemmed in by a series of gradually sloping hills, terminating with the heights of Georgetown ; the plain being nearly three miles in length, from East to West, and varying from a quarter of a mile to two miles in breadth ; bounded on the East by the Eastern...
Seite 61 - This Southeast corner-stone of the Capitol of the United States of America, in the City of Washington, was laid on the 18th day of September, 1793, in the thirteenth year of American independence, in the first year of the second term of the presidency of George Washington, whose virtues in the civil administration of his country have been as conspicuous and beneficial, as his military valor and prudence have been useful in establishing her liberties, and in the year of Masonry, 5793, by the President...
Seite 65 - It is with you, gentlemen, to consider whether the local powers over the District of Columbia vested by the Constitution in the Congress of the United States shall be immediately exercised.