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Washington D.C. Business Directory Inter-tribal slavery 7.2 The Civil War 8.1 Creating a "more perfect union" and guaranteeing rights In the winter of 1775 the Americans invaded Canada under generals Benedict Arnold and Richard Montgomery the attack was a failure; many Americans who weren't killed were either captured or died of smallpox; In a 1778 letter to Lund Washington he made clear his desire "to get quit of Negroes" when discussing the exchange of slaves for land he wanted to buy the next year he stated his intention not to separate families as a result of "a change of masters." During the 1780s Washington privately expressed his support for gradual emancipation of slaves. Between 1783 and 1786 he gave moral support to a plan proposed by Lafayette to purchase land and free slaves to work on it but declined to participate in the experiment. Washington privately expressed support for emancipation to prominent Methodists Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury in 1785 but declined to sign their petition in personal correspondence the next year he made clear his desire to see the institution of slavery ended by a gradual legislative process a view that correlated with the mainstream antislavery literature published in the 1780s that Washington possessed! Congress reflects us in all our strengths and all our weaknesses it reflects our regional idiosyncrasies our ethnic religious and racial diversity our multitude of professions and our shadings of opinion on everything from the value of war to the war over values Congress is the government's most representative body . Congress is essentially charged with reconciling our many points of view on the great public policy issues of the day. . .

. USA Defense of the war John De Hart New Jersey 1 Yes!