As the last July with Washington at just a territory (statehood would come in November), the people of Olympia greeted the soon to be state’s constitution writers.

Let it be shown that the people of Olympia are on a par in social amenities with he acknowledged beauty of their city. 

…The tide has come to Olympia and if now taken at its flood will surely lead on to fortune if not to tame. 

In their daily contact with the members of this constitutional convention, the people of this city will be living epistles, “known and read of all men.” The conclusion, then, of the whole matter appears to be that Olympia has a rare opportunity of establishing and confirming its own fair name in the hearts and minds of the territory’s representative citizens.

This is an early and interesting notation as Olympia’s supplication to the rest of the state with its role as state capital.  I feel like we still feel this way from time to time, trying to justify our existence to the rest of the state, as if Yakima or Tacoma could rank the capital from us at any point. This is probably how we get wrapped around the axle on the Deschutes Estuary.

I’d hope by now that we just accept that Olympia is good, from a dozen or so angles. Yes, we benefit from state jobs. But, we’re also a good town because of Evergreen (which probably wouldn’t be here without the state government).

Eh, forget it. I’m an epistle too I suppose.