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"And I o to ood servant You will vote for New York, Van Heemskirk?--that is a question I need not to ask?"

"Where else should the capital of our nation be? I think that Philadelphia has great presuainst New York:--this beautiful city between the two rivers, with the Atlantic Ocean at her feet!"

"You say what is true, Van Heemskirk God has made New York the capital, and the capital she will be; and no man can prevent it It was only yesterday that Senator Greyson froainst Philadelphia She is very troubleso them with her schemes for emancipation It is the way to make us unfriends"

"I think this, Van Ariens: Philadelphia may win the vote at this time; she has the numbers, and she has 'persuasions'; but look you! NEW YORK HAS THE SHIPS AND THE COMMERCE, AND THE SEA WILL CROWN HER! 'The harvest of the rivers is her revenue; and she is the mart of nations' That is what Do, and you may find the words in the prophecy of Isaiah, the twenty-third chapter"

During this conversation they had forgotten all else, and when their eyes turned to the Moran house the vision of youth and beauty had dissolved Van Hee towards Broadway; and the lovely Cornelia Moran was sauntering up the garden of her ho occasionally to examine the pearl-powdered auriculas or to twine around its support so out of its proper place

Then Van Ariens hurried down to his tanning pits in the swahtfully to Broad Street; walking sloith his left arm laid across his back, and his broad, cal with that triumph which he foresaw for the city he loved When he reached Federal Hall, he stood a minute in the doorway; and with inspired eyes looked at the splendid,picture; then he walked proudly toward the Hall of Representatives, saying to himself, with silent exultation as he went: "The Seat of Govern City Her merchants shall be princes, her traffickers the honourable of the earth; the harvest of her rivers shall be her royal revenue, and the marts of all nations shall be in her streets"