Over the decades and with the growth of slavery throughout the South Baptist and Methodist ministers gradually changed their messages to accommodate the institution After 1830 white Southerners argued for the compatibility of Christianity and slavery with a multitude of both Old and New Testament citations. They promoted Christianity as encouraging better treatment of slaves and argued for a paternalistic approach in the 1840s and 1850s the issue of accepting slavery split the nation's largest religious denominations (the Methodist Baptist and Presbyterian churches) into separate Northern and Southern organizations see Methodist Episcopal Church South Southern Baptist Convention and Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America)! William Blount North Carolina 1 Yes On January 5 1776 New Hampshire ratified the first state constitution in May 1776 Congress voted to suppress all forms of crown authority to be replaced by locally created authority Virginia South Carolina and New Jersey created their constitutions before July 4 Rhode Island and Connecticut simply took their existing royal charters and deleted all references to the crown the new states were all committed to republicanism with no inherited offices They decided what form of government to create and also how to select those who would craft the constitutions and how the resulting document would be ratified On 26 May 1776 John Adams wrote James Sullivan from Philadelphia:. ; .
Background On October 7 1837 Washington's remains were placed still in the original lead coffin within a marble sarcophagus designed by William Strickland and constructed by John Struthers earlier that year the sarcophagus was sealed and encased with planks and an outer vault was constructed around it the outer vault has the sarcophagi of both George and Martha Washington; the inner vault has the remains of other Washington family members and relatives! ! Washington trained as a land surveyor before he became commander of a small militia.
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