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President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers Another approach to the question was offered by Quaker and Florida planter Zephaniah Kingsley Jr He advocated and personally practiced deliberate racial mixing through marriage as part of his proposed solution to the slavery issue: racial integration called "amalgamation" at the time in an 1829 Treatise he stated that mixed-race people were healthier and often more beautiful that interracial sex was hygienic and that slavery made it convenient.:190 Because of these views tolerated in Spanish Florida he found it impossible to remain long in Territorial Florida and moved with his slaves and multiple wives to a plantation in Haiti (now in the Dominican Republic) There were many others who less flagrantly practiced interracial common-law marriages with slaves (see Partus sequitur ventrem). . Polk mistrusted Taylor who he felt had shown incompetence in the Battle of Monterrey by agreeing to the armistice Taylor later used the Battle of Buena Vista as the centerpiece of his successful 1848 presidential campaign, Battle of Fort Sumter, Formal portrait of Chief Justice John Jay wearing judge's robe! By the end of the 20th century notable success had been achieved as massive algal blooms vanished and recreational fishing and boating rebounded Still the aquatic habitat of the Potomac River and its tributaries remain vulnerable to eutrophication heavy metals pesticides and other toxic chemicals over-fishing alien species and pathogens associated with fecal coliform bacteria and shellfish diseases in 2005 two federal agencies the US Geological Survey and the Fish and Wildlife Service began to identify fish in the Potomac and tributaries that exhibited "intersex" characteristics as a result of endocrine disruption caused by some form of pollution. !

Congress also plays a role in presidential elections Both Houses meet in joint session on the sixth day of January following a presidential election to count the electoral votes and there are procedures to follow if no candidate wins a majority, Native Americans Beginning in the 19th century with increasing mining and agriculture upstream and urban sewage and runoff downstream the water quality of the Potomac River deteriorated This created conditions of severe eutrophication It is said that President Abraham Lincoln used to escape to the highlands on summer nights to escape the river's stench in the 1960s with dense green algal blooms covering the river's surface President Lyndon Johnson declared the river "a national disgrace" and set in motion a long-term effort to reduce pollution from sewage and restore the beauty and ecology of this historic river One of significant pollution control projects at the time was the expansion of the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant which serves Washington and several surrounding communities. Enactment of the 1972 Clean Water Act led to construction or expansion of additional sewage treatment plants in the Potomac watershed Controls on phosphorus one of the principal contributors to eutrophication were implemented in the 1980s through sewage plant upgrades and restrictions on phosphorus in detergents. The Potomac River (/p?'to?m?k/ (About this soundlisten)) is found within the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and flows from the Potomac Highlands into the Chesapeake Bay the river (main stem and North Branch) is approximately 405 miles (652 km) long, with a drainage area of about 14,700 square miles (38,000 km2) in terms of area this makes the Potomac River the fourth largest river along the Atlantic coast of the United States and the 21st largest in the United States Over 5 million people live within the Potomac watershed. The District of Columbia including Washington or adjoining Georgetown was the birthplace of several Union army generals and naval admirals as well as a leading Confederate commander, 6.4 Indian affairs Once the trip ended slaves faced a life on the frontier significantly different from most labor in the Upper South Clearing trees and starting crops on virgin fields was harsh and backbreaking work a combination of inadequate nutrition bad water and exhaustion from both the journey and the work weakened the newly arrived slaves and produced casualties New plantations were located at rivers' edges for ease of transportation and travel Mosquitoes and other environmental challenges spread disease which took the lives of many slaves They had acquired only limited immunities to lowland diseases in their previous homes the death rate was so high that in the first few years of hewing a plantation out of the wilderness some planters preferred whenever possible to use rented slaves rather than their own! . .