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. See also: Cabinet of the United States. Beginning in the 19th century with increasing mining and agriculture upstream and urban sewage and runoff downstream the water quality of the Potomac River deteriorated This created conditions of severe eutrophication It is said that President Abraham Lincoln used to escape to the highlands on summer nights to escape the river's stench in the 1960s with dense green algal blooms covering the river's surface President Lyndon Johnson declared the river "a national disgrace" and set in motion a long-term effort to reduce pollution from sewage and restore the beauty and ecology of this historic river One of significant pollution control projects at the time was the expansion of the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant which serves Washington and several surrounding communities. Enactment of the 1972 Clean Water Act led to construction or expansion of additional sewage treatment plants in the Potomac watershed Controls on phosphorus one of the principal contributors to eutrophication were implemented in the 1980s through sewage plant upgrades and restrictions on phosphorus in detergents!

9.1 Religion and Freemasonry, 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, The Congress of the United States serves two distinct purposes that overlap: local representation to the federal government of a congressional district by representatives and a state's at-large representation to the federal government by senators. 10 Footnotes After 1830 abolitionist and minister William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation characterizing slaveholding as a personal sin He demanded that slaveowners repent and start the process of emancipation His position increased defensiveness on the part of some southerners who noted the long history of slavery among many cultures a few abolitionists such as John Brown favored the use of armed force to foment uprisings among the slaves as he did at Harper's Ferry Most abolitionists tried to raise public support to change laws and to challenge slave laws Abolitionists were active on the lecture circuit in the North and often featured escaped slaves in their presentations the eloquent Frederick Douglass became an important abolitionist leader after escaping from slavery Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was an international bestseller and aroused popular sentiment against slavery it also provoked the publication of numerous anti-Tom novels by Southerners in the years before the American Civil War. Lincoln painstakingly monitored the telegraph reports coming into War Department He tracked all phases of the effort consulted with governors and selected generals based on their success (as well as their state and party) in January 1862 after many complaints of inefficiency and profiteering in the War Department Lincoln replaced Simon Cameron with Edwin Stanton as War Secretary Stanton centralized the War Department's activities auditing and cancelling contracts saving the federal government $17,000,000.:115 Stanton was a staunchly Unionist pro-business conservative Democrat who moved toward the Radical Republican faction He worked more often and more closely with Lincoln than any other senior official "Stanton and Lincoln virtually conducted the war together," say Thomas and Hyman. Alexander Hamilton wrote the Federalist Papers with Jay and Madison, Another popular local daily is the Washington Times the city's second general interest broadsheet and also an influential paper in conservative political circles the alternative weekly Washington City Paper also has a substantial readership in the Washington area, 2 Social background and commonalities 1 Background In the final months of his presidency Washington was assailed by his political foes and a partisan press who accused him of being ambitious and greedy while he argued that he had taken no salary during the war and had risked his life in battle He regarded the press as a disuniting "diabolical" force of falsehoods sentiments that he expressed in his Farewell Address. At the end of his second term Washington retired for personal and political reasons dismayed with personal attacks and to ensure that a truly contested presidential election could be held He did not feel bound to a two-term limit but his retirement set a significant precedent Washington is often credited with setting the principal of a two-term presidency but it was Thomas Jefferson who first refused to run for a third term on political grounds!