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Placement and cost of the national capitol. The national debt and its ‘fair share’. Among other things. Politics didn’t just start today.

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Placement and cost of the national capitol.

That was a decision reached in 1790 during Washington's administration. I am not aware of any controversy about Washington DC being the national capital in 1860.

The national debt and its ‘fair share’.

Public debt in 1860 totaled $64.8 million (the annual budget of the federal government at the time was $63.1 million). That is a historically very small amount of debt to have for any nation. Source: http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/history/1800.htm

I'm not aware of any controversy about the national debt at the time.