. . ! The National Gallery of Art is one of the largest art museums in the world General George Washington Resigning His Commission Main article: Siege of Yorktown. Washington wrote Alexander Hamilton on July 10: "I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of our convention and do therefore repent having had any agency in the business." Nevertheless he lent his prestige to the goodwill and work of the other delegates He unsuccessfully lobbied many to support ratification of the Constitution such as anti-federalist Patrick Henry to whom he said "the adoption of it under the present circumstances of the Union is in my opinion desirable" declaring that the alternative would be anarchy. Washington and Madison then spent four days at Mount Vernon evaluating the transition of the new government. A portrait of Dred Scott Lincoln denounced the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v Sandford as part of a conspiracy to extend slavery.
; Washington D.C has been a member state of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) since 2015, George Washington presiding over the signing of the United States Constitution; The French writer and traveler Alexis de Tocqueville in his influential Democracy in America (1835) expressed opposition to slavery while observing its effects on American society He felt that a multiracial society without slavery was untenable as he believed that prejudice against blacks increased as they were granted more rights (for example in northern states) He believed that the attitudes of white Southerners and the concentration of the black population in the South were bringing the white and black populations to a state of equilibrium and were a danger to both races Because of the racial differences between master and slave he believed that the latter could not be emancipated.
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