W Edward Porter IV Attorney at Law

. Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, Washington had planned to resign after his first term but the political strife in the nation convinced him that he should remain in office. He was an able administrator and a judge of talent and character and he talked regularly with department heads to get their advice. He tolerated opposing views despite fears that a democratic system would lead to political violence and he conducted a smooth transition of power to his successor. He remained non-partisan throughout his presidency and opposed the divisiveness of political parties but he favored a strong central government was sympathetic to a Federalist form of government and leery of the Republican opposition, On November 13 2007 the Potomac Conservancy an environmental group issued the river a grade of "D-plus" citing high levels of pollution and the reports of "intersex" fish. Since then the river has improved with a reduction in nutrient runoff return of fish populations and land protection along the river As a result the same group issued a grade of "B" for 2017 and 2018 in March 2019 the Potomac Riverkeeper Network launched a laboratory boat dubbed the "Sea Dog" which will be monitoring water quality in the Potomac and providing reports to the public on a weekly basis; in that same month the catching near Fletcher's Boat House of a Striped Bass estimated to weigh 35 lbs was seen as a further indicator of the continuing improvement in the health of the river. Across the South white legislatures enacted harsh new laws to curtail the already limited rights of African Americans Virginia prohibited blacks free or slave from practicing preaching prohibited blacks from owning firearms and forbade anyone to teach slaves or free blacks how to read it specified heavy penalties for both student and teacher if slaves were educated including whippings or jail. . 10.3 Black Americans Louis M Goldsborough, CSA John L O'Sullivan a vocal proponent of Manifest Destiny later recalled:. Dr Brown thought that Washington had quinsy; Dick thought that the condition was a more serious "violent inflammation of the throat". They continued the process of bloodletting to approximately five pints but it was futile and his condition deteriorated Dick proposed a tracheotomy but the other two doctors were not familiar with that procedure and therefore disapproved. Washington instructed Brown and Dick to leave the room while he assured Craik "Doctor I die hard but I am not afraid to go.", Early in 1775 in response to the growing rebellious movement including the Boston Tea Party Parliament sent British troops commanded by General Thomas Gage to occupy Boston disband the local provincial government and quell the growing state of rebellion the British set up fortifications about the city making it impervious to attack in response various state militias surrounded the city and effectively trapped the British resulting in a standoff, On April 14 1865 just days after the end of the war Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth during the play Our American Cousin the next morning at 7:22 AM President Lincoln died in the house across the street the first American president to be assassinated Secretary of War Edwin M Stanton said "Now he belongs to the ages" (or perhaps "angels") the residents and visitors to the city experienced a wide array of reactions from stunned disbelief to rage Stanton immediately closed off most major roads and bridges and the city was placed under martial law Scores of residents and workers were questioned during the growing investigation and a handful was detained or arrested on suspicion of having aided the assassins or for a perception they were withholding information!

. Map of the U.S showing Lincoln winning the North-east and West Breckinridge winning the South Douglas winning Missouri and Bell winning Virginia West Virginia and Kentucky. Led by Zachary Taylor 2,300 U.S troops crossed the Rio Grande after some initial difficulties in obtaining river transport His soldiers occupied the city of Matamoros then Camargo (where the soldiery suffered the first of many problems with disease) and then proceeded south and besieged the city of Monterrey the hard-fought Battle of Monterrey resulted in serious losses on both sides the American light artillery was ineffective against the stone fortifications of the city the Mexican forces were under General Pedro de Ampudia and repulsed Taylor's best infantry division at Fort Teneria. Clay proposes compromise The river itself is at least 3.5 million years old, likely extending back ten to twenty million years before present when the Atlantic Ocean lowered and exposed coastal sediments along the fall line This included the area at Great Falls which eroded into its present form during recent glaciation periods. Washington D.C. Business Directory Lincoln's assassination Main article: Baltimore Plot Based on the President's war powers the Emancipation Proclamation applied to territory held by Confederates at the time However the Proclamation became a symbol of the Union's growing commitment to add emancipation to the Union's definition of liberty. Lincoln played a leading role in getting the constitutionally-required two-thirds majority of both houses of Congress to vote for the Thirteenth Amendment, which made emancipation universal and permanent.