Pope Francis of New Rome... Washington, DC (Brent, Letters on ... matters connected with ... the District of Columbia, 1844)

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[...] Let the spot hallowed by the name of Washington, and foreshadowed as the seat of Government for the Great Republic of the West by its primitive names of Rome and Tiber, be deemed a holy thing, [...]

Brent, John Carroll, Letters on the National institute, Smithsonian legacy, the fine arts, and other matters connected with the interests of the District of Columbia, Washington: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1844, p. 79.


   Let those who have the might, but not the right, be cautious how they desecrate the spot hallowed by the choice and the name of the father of his country! Let those who, from sinister or other motives, desire a removal reflect, that here, centuries ago, an imaginative pioneer of civilization recalled the old world, and the glories of ancient Rome, by giving this region the name of the seven-hilled city, and christening the small stream which flows in our midst the Tiber. Let no rash man presume to disturb this happy omen, for the finger of Providence is visible in the case. Let us, on the contrary, fondly hope that the greatness and the power of the old mistress of the world, without its crimes, will descend as an inheritance on the spot honored with the name of Washington, where its former glories are recalled by a Capitol, a Senate of Conscript Fathers, and by the existence of a Republic far purer and more enduring than the offspring of the wolf-nursed children of Rhea---(1.)

"", pp. 77-78.

   June 5th, 1663.---Laid out for Francis Pope, of this Province, gentleman, a parcel of land in Charles county called Room [Rome], lying on the east side of the Anacostia river, beginning with a marked oak standing by the river side, the bounded tree of Capt. Robert Troop, and running north by the river for breadth and length 200 ps., to a bounded oak standing at the mouth of a bay or inlet called Tiber; bounding on the north by the said belt, and line drawn east for the length of 320 ps., to a bounded tree standing in the woods; on the east, with a line drawn south from the end of the former line, until you meet with the exterior bounded tree of Robt. Troop, called Scotland Yard; on the south, with the said land; on the west, with the said river, containing, and now laid out for, 400 acres, more or less.

"", p. 79.

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