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Places and monuments This stretch encompasses the section of the Potomac River from the confluence of its North and South Branches through Opequon Creek near Shepherdstown West Virginia. . 2000 85.2% 171,923 9.0% 18,073 President Taylor opposed the compromise and continued to call for immediate statehood for both California and New Mexico. Senator John C Calhoun and some other Southern leaders argued that the compromise was biased against the South because it would lead to the creation of new free states. Most Northern Whigs led by William Henry Seward who delivered his famous "Higher Law" speech during the controversy opposed the Compromise as well because it would apply the Wilmot Proviso to the western territories and because of the pressing of ordinary citizens into duty on slave-hunting patrols That provision was inserted by Democratic Virginia Senator James M Mason to entice border-state Whigs who faced the greatest danger of losing slaves as fugitives but were lukewarm on general sectional issues related to the South on Texas's land claims. 8 Further reading Emergence as Republican leader, 12.1 Footnotes Cabinet and executive departments, A 1774 etching from the London Magazine copied by Paul Revere of Boston Prime Minister Lord North author of the Boston Port Act forces the Intolerable Acts down the throat of America whose arms are restrained by Lord Chief Justice Mansfield while the 4th Earl of Sandwich pins down her feet and peers up her skirt Behind them Mother Britannia weeps helplessly while France and Spain look on.

. . The Civil War Kearny and his troops encountered no Mexican forces when they arrived on August 15 Kearny and his force entered Santa Fe and claimed the New Mexico Territory for the United States without a shot being fired Kearny declared himself the military governor of the New Mexico Territory on August 18 and established a civilian government American officers with a background in law drew up a temporary legal system for the territory called the Kearny Code, 13.4 Other Washington stressed that national identity was paramount while a united America would safeguard freedom and prosperity He warned the nation of three eminent dangers: regionalism partisanship and foreign entanglements and said the "name of AMERICAN which belongs to you in your national capacity must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations." Washington called for men to move beyond partisanship for the common good stressing that the United States must concentrate on its own interests He warned against foreign alliances and their influence in domestic affairs and against bitter partisanship and the dangers of political parties. He counseled friendship and commerce with all nations but advised against involvement in European wars. He stressed the importance of religion asserting that "religion and morality are indispensable supports" in a republic. Washington's address favored Hamilton's Federalist ideology and economic policies. 5.2 Defense of the war, The Virginia Slave codes of 1705 further defined as slaves those people imported from nations that were not Christian Native Americans who were sold to colonists by other Native Americans (from rival tribes) or captured by Europeans during village raids were also defined as slaves. This codified the earlier principle of non-Christian foreigner enslavement! The Dutch Republic also at war with Britain was the next country to sign a treaty with the United States on October 8 1782. On April 3 1783 Ambassador Extraordinary Gustaf Philip Creutz representing King Gustav III of Sweden and Benjamin Franklin signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the U.S. A minority of uncertain size tried to stay neutral in the war Most kept a low profile but the Quakers were the most important group to speak out for neutrality especially in Pennsylvania the Quakers continued to do business with the British even after the war began and they were accused of being supporters of British rule "contrivers and authors of seditious publications" critical of the revolutionary cause the majority of Quakers attempted to remain neutral although a sizeable number nevertheless participated to some degree, On November 13 2007 the Potomac Conservancy an environmental group issued the river a grade of "D-plus" citing high levels of pollution and the reports of "intersex" fish. Since then the river has improved with a reduction in nutrient runoff return of fish populations and land protection along the river As a result the same group issued a grade of "B" for 2017 and 2018 in March 2019 the Potomac Riverkeeper Network launched a laboratory boat dubbed the "Sea Dog" which will be monitoring water quality in the Potomac and providing reports to the public on a weekly basis; in that same month the catching near Fletcher's Boat House of a Striped Bass estimated to weigh 35 lbs was seen as a further indicator of the continuing improvement in the health of the river.