CHAPTER IV.

OLD WASHINGTON.

How the City Was Built—“A Matter of Moonshine”—Calls for

Paper—Besieging Congressmen—How They Raised the Money—The

Government Requires Sponsors—Birth of the Nation’s

Capital—Seventy Years Ago in Washington—Graphic Picture of

Early Times—A Much-Marrying City—Unwashed Virginian

Belles—Stuck in the Mud—Extraordinary Religious Services, 51

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