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2.2 Advanced degrees and apprenticeships, On July 9 1799 Washington finished making his last will; the longest provision concerned slavery All of his slaves were to be freed after the death of his wife Martha Washington said he did not free them immediately because his slaves intermarried with his wife's dower slaves He forbade their sale or transportation out of Virginia His will provided that old and young freed people be taken care of indefinitely; younger ones were to be taught to read and write and placed in suitable occupations. Washington freed over 160 slaves that included 25 slaves he had acquired from his wife's brother in payment of a debt freed by graduation. He was among the few large slave-holding Virginians during the Revolutionary Era who emancipated their slaves, Though in reviewing the incidents of my Administration I am unconscious of intentional error I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors Whatever they may be I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence and that after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest; 7.8 Assassination We have the wolf by the ear and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go Justice is in one scale and self-preservation in the other. In ancient China where governments were massive centralized bureaucracies with little flexibility on the provincial level a dynasty could easily be toppled with the fall of its capital in the Three Kingdoms period both Shu and Wu fell when their respective capitals of Chengdu and Jianye fell the Ming dynasty relocated its capital from Nanjing to Beijing where they could more effectively control the generals and troops guarding the borders from Mongols and Manchus the Ming was destroyed when Li Zicheng took their seat of power and this pattern repeats itself in Chinese history until the fall of the traditional Confucian monarchy in the 20th century After the Qing dynasty's collapse decentralization of authority and improved transportation and communication technologies allowed both the Chinese Nationalists and Chinese Communists to rapidly relocate capitals and keep their leadership structures intact during the great crisis of Japanese invasion, John Dickinson Delaware 3[a] Yes Yes The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 created a single new district corporation governing the entire federal territory called the District of Columbia thus dissolving the three major political subdivisions of the District (Port of Georgetown the City of Washington and Washington County) and their governments by this time the county also contained other small settlements and nascent suburbs of Washington outside its bounded limits such as Anacostia which had been incorporated in 1854 as Uniontown; Fort Totten dating at least to the Civil War; and Barry Farm a large tract bought by the Freedmen's Bureau and granted to formerly enslaved and free-born African Americans in 1867, College of New Jersey (now Princeton): James Madison Gunning Bedford Jr Aaron Burr Benjamin Rush and William Paterson. .

. Taylor died in July 1850 and was succeeded by Vice President Fillmore who had privately come to support Clay's proposal the various bills were initially combined into one "omnibus" bill Despite Clay's efforts it failed in a crucial vote on July 31 opposed by southern Democrats and by northern Whigs He announced on the Senate floor the next day that he intended to pass each individual part of the bill the 73-year-old Clay however was physically exhausted as the effects of tuberculosis which would eventually kill him began to take their toll Clay left the Senate to recuperate in Newport Rhode Island and Senator Stephen A Douglas took the lead in attempting to pass Clay's proposals through the Senate.