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doned it, and no man has since that stormy period, ever advo- 

 cated the proceeding. It will never be reacted in Ohio. 

 Knowing all the actors, personally, with whom we never had 

 any altercation about this or any other matter, we have had 

 no private ill will to gratify, in saying what we have above. 

 Nor was it our own wish to be thus particular in stating all 

 the material facts connected with this matter, but the surviv- 

 ing actors insisted on a full statement, and we have complied 

 with their wishes. 



At this same session, the legislature removed the seat of 

 government from Chillicothe to Zanesville. 



Congress had granted a township of land for "an academy" 

 in their contract with John Cleves Symmes, for the sale to him 

 of the Lower Miami country. According to that grant, the 

 township was to have been in the centre of the ceded lands. 

 The legislature, at this session, located the Miami University, 

 as they called it, on a township which they selected entirely out 

 of the tract of land, in the centre of which, by the original 

 grant, it was to have been located. All the acts of this ses- 

 sion, were equally violent and unconstitutional — "for madness 

 ruled the hour." 



They proceeded to appoint, commissioners to fix on a site for 

 a permanent seat of government of this state. 



Next session, these commissioners, James Findlay, Joseph 

 Darlington, Wyllys Sillinian, Reason Beall, and William 

 McFarland, reported in favor, we believe of Dublin, a town on 

 the Scioto river, some fourteen miles above Columbus. The 

 year, 1810-11 passed quietly off, but at their next session, the 

 legislature, accepted the proposals of Colonel James John- 

 son, Alexander McLaughlin, John Kerr and Lyne Starling, 

 Esquires, who owned the land where Columbus is. The gene- 

 ral assembly fixed the seat of government where it now is and 

 will there remain. At this session of 1811-12 the legisla 

 ture passed an act, removing the seat of government, back 

 to Chillicothe, until 1816-17, after which time it was to be 

 where it now is, at Columbus. In the meantime the public 

 buildings were to be erected, on land then a dense forest. 



