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Rh The best diplomatist, I presume, being the man who gives the least and takes the most.

Rh

In this instance, Citizen Monroe and myself are prepared to give a great deal, in order that the Southern States shall not be overlooked.

Treated with contempt.

With regard to the Capital, I have a proposal to make. [ nods his head attentively and comes down in front of sofa and turns to them.] As we cannot agree upon the selection of a city, why not build us a new city—clean and new and full of the ideals of Liberty and Fraternity! Why choose a city like Albany or New York, marred with the scars of the British tyrant—bristling with the memories of our servitude?

Certainly an original idea. A new city. On the Hudson!

[Quickly and emphatically.] No, not on the Hudson.

On the Potomac—half-way between the North and the South!