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crease of population in that part of the coun¬ 
try, which they must naturally supply, will be 
such, that their trade on the whole will, in all 
probability, be found far more extensive after 
the federal city is established than it ever was 
before. 
A large majority, however, of the people in 
the United States is desirous that the removal 
of the seat of government should take place 
at the appointed time. The discontents in¬ 
deed, which an opposite measure would give 
rise to in the south could not but be alarming, 
and if they did not occasion a total separation 
of the southern from the northern states, yet 
they would certainly materially destroy that 
harmony which has hitherto existed between 
them, . 
