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3.4 Debate and results Historian David Herbert Donald described the speech as a "superb political move for an unannounced candidate to appear in one rival's (Seward) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's (Chase) loyalists while not mentioning either by name during its delivery".:240 in response to an inquiry about his ambitions Lincoln said "The taste is in my mouth a little.":241. There are few I believe in this enlightened age who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil It is idle to expatiate on its disadvantages I think it is a greater evil to the white than to the colored race While my feelings are strongly enlisted in behalf of the latter my sympathies are more deeply engaged for the former the blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa morally physically and socially the painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their further instruction as a race and will prepare them I hope for better things How long their servitude may be necessary is known and ordered by a merciful Providence. . Protestant Dissenters and the Great Awakening 9 See also, History[show] The number of enslaved and free blacks rose from 759,000 (60,000 free) in the 1790 US Census to 4,450,000 (11% free or 480,000) a 580% increase in the 1860 US Census the white population from 3.2 million to 27 million an increase of 1180% due to high birth rates and 4.5 million immigrants overwhelmingly from Europe 70% of whom arrived in the years 1840-1860 the percentage of the Black population went from 19.3% to 14.1%. 1790 757,208 19.3% of population of whom 697,681 92% enslaved 1860 4,441,830 14.1% of population of whom 3,953,731 89% enslaved. .

. The source of the North Branch Potomac River is at the Fairfax Stone located at the junction of Grant Tucker and Preston counties in West Virginia. The selection or founding of a "neutral" capital city one unencumbered by regional or political identities was meant to represent the unity of a new state when Ankara Bern Canberra Madrid Ottawa and Washington became capital cities Sometimes the location of a new capital city was chosen to terminate squabbling or possible squabbling between various entities such as in the cases of Canberra Ottawa Washington Wellington and Managua, The Arizona Organic Act abolished slavery on February 24 1863 in the newly formed Arizona Territory Tennessee and all of the border states (except Kentucky) abolished slavery by early 1865 Thousands of slaves were freed by the operation of the Emancipation Proclamation as Union armies marched across the South Emancipation came to the remaining southern slaves after the surrender of all Confederate troops in spring 1865. !