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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. Congress immediately adjourned for the day upon news of Washington's death and the Speaker's chair was shrouded in black the next morning the funeral was held four days after his death on December 18 1799 at Mount Vernon where his body was interred Cavalry and foot soldiers led the procession and six colonels served as the pallbearers the Mount Vernon funeral service was restricted mostly to family and friends. Reverend Thomas Davis read the funeral service by the vault with a brief address followed by a ceremony performed by various members of Washington's Masonic lodge in Alexandria Virginia. Congress chose Light-Horse Harry Lee to deliver the eulogy Word of his death traveled slowly; church bells rang in the cities and many places of business closed. People worldwide admired Washington and were saddened by his death and memorial processions were held in major cities of the United States Martha wore a black mourning cape for one year and she burned their correspondence to protect their privacy Only five letters between the couple are known to have survived two letters from Martha to George and three from him to her. Members elected since 1984 are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) Like other federal employees congressional retirement is funded through taxes and participants' contributions Members of Congress under FERS contribute 1.3% of their salary into the FERS retirement plan and pay 6.2% of their salary in Social Security taxes and like federal employees members contribute one-third of the cost of health insurance with the government covering the other two-thirds, 4.2 Political views President Taylor opposed the compromise and continued to call for immediate statehood for both California and New Mexico. Senator John C Calhoun and some other Southern leaders argued that the compromise was biased against the South because it would lead to the creation of new free states. Most Northern Whigs led by William Henry Seward who delivered his famous "Higher Law" speech during the controversy opposed the Compromise as well because it would apply the Wilmot Proviso to the western territories and because of the pressing of ordinary citizens into duty on slave-hunting patrols That provision was inserted by Democratic Virginia Senator James M Mason to entice border-state Whigs who faced the greatest danger of losing slaves as fugitives but were lukewarm on general sectional issues related to the South on Texas's land claims; Gradual emancipation in New York (starting 1799) and New Jersey (starting 1804), Main article: Library of Congress. Researchers found that there were 4,822 same-sex couples in the District of Columbia in 2010; about 2% of total households. Legislation authorizing same-sex marriage passed in 2009 and the District began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in March 2010. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney South Carolina 1 Yes, Washington D.C. Business Directory, Main article: George III of Great Britain. Sierra Leone (Mende Temne) 15.8 New Delhi India (1911), John Harvie Virginia 1 Yes Washington made repeated petitions to the Continental Congress for provisions He received a congressional delegation to check the Army's conditions and expressed the urgency of the situation proclaiming: "Something must be done Important alterations must be made." He recommended that Congress expedite supplies and Congress agreed to strengthen and fund the army's supply lines by reorganizing the commissary department by late February supplies began arriving, 1860 75,080 45.3% Santa Anna's last campaign.

The philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson shared Grant's view; towards the end of the war he wrote: "The United States will conquer Mexico but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic which brings him down in turn Mexico will poison us.". . . . Northwest Ordinance Congress reflects us in all our strengths and all our weaknesses it reflects our regional idiosyncrasies our ethnic religious and racial diversity our multitude of professions and our shadings of opinion on everything from the value of war to the war over values Congress is the government's most representative body . Congress is essentially charged with reconciling our many points of view on the great public policy issues of the day. The law was so rigorously pro-slavery as to prohibit the admission of the testimony of a person accused of being an escaped slave into evidence at the judicial hearing to determine the status of the accused escaped slave Thus if a freedman were claimed to be an escaped slave they could not resist their return to slavery by truthfully telling their own actual history, John Penn North Carolina 2 Yes Yes Light-skinned young girls were sold openly for sexual use; their price was much higher than that of a field hand.:38 55 Special markets for the fancy girl trade existed in New Orleans:55 and Lexington Kentucky. Historian Philip Shaw describes an occasion when Abraham Lincoln and Allen Gentry witnessed such sales in New Orleans in 1828:.