McNutt Timothy E

. . . The divisions became fully exposed with the 1860 presidential election the electorate split four ways the Southern Democrats endorsed slavery while the Republicans denounced it the Northern Democrats said democracy required the people to decide on slavery locally state by state and territory by territory the Constitutional Union Party said the survival of the Union was at stake and everything else should be compromised. .

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. President John Adams made his first official visit to Washington in early June 1800 which lasted for several days Amid the "raw and unfinished" cityscape the president found the public buildings "in a much greater forwardness of completion than expected." the Senate (north) wing of the Capitol was nearly completed as was the White House the president moved into the White House on November 1 First Lady Abigail Adams arrived a few weeks later the Senate of the Sixth Congress met in the Capitol for the first time on November 17 and on November 22 Adams delivered his fourth State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress in the Senate chamber the House (south) wing was not completed until 1811 Nonetheless the House of Representatives began meeting there in 1807.[citation needed], Uncle Tom's Cabin Abigail Adams The principal organized bodies to advocate abolition and anti-slavery reforms in the north were the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and the New York Manumission Society Before the 1830s the antislavery groups called for gradual emancipation. By the late 1820s under the impulse of religious evangelicals the sense emerged that owning slaves was a sin and the owner had to immediately free himself from this grave sin by emancipation. . . . . .