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2 01334 By the paper I shall mail along with this you will see that I took the liberty of letting the Tacoma Ledger publish
your interesting letter, or a part of it. The compositor has made an error or illegible and the Editor has taken, unauthorized,
the liberty of substituting Mt. Tacoma for Mt. Rainier. You will have to be patient and enduring? with him. He has served
me the same way in previous publications. It would be a moral impossibility for a bona fide Tacomaite to let the name Rainier
pass through his lips or drop from his pen. The corporate limits of the Hub of the Universe are suffused, of course, to enclose
the environs of that giant 3 mountain. The gallant and distinguished Vancouver was obtusely blind to the great future
(of the terminus) where, in honor of his illustrious English friend, he applied that culpable name to the noblest Roman of
all our illegible . The Tacomaites call the mountain Tacima, thier terminus? Tacoma, thier bay Tacoma, and now with the veriest
greed of selfish nomenclature they are clamoring to have the illegible of Congress admit the Territory under the name of Tacoma.
I verily believe that when good Tacomaites die and go to heaven if they don t find the most beatified portion of Paradise
called Tacoma, or at least its principal golden thoroughfare, they will despondently hang their heads, turn