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10 Impact of the war in Mexico Shown in the presidential booth of Ford's Theatre from left to right are assassin John Wilkes Booth Abraham Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone, Washington D.C. Business Directory Another approach to the question was offered by Quaker and Florida planter Zephaniah Kingsley Jr He advocated and personally practiced deliberate racial mixing through marriage as part of his proposed solution to the slavery issue: racial integration called "amalgamation" at the time in an 1829 Treatise he stated that mixed-race people were healthier and often more beautiful that interracial sex was hygienic and that slavery made it convenient.:190 Because of these views tolerated in Spanish Florida he found it impossible to remain long in Territorial Florida and moved with his slaves and multiple wives to a plantation in Haiti (now in the Dominican Republic) There were many others who less flagrantly practiced interracial common-law marriages with slaves (see Partus sequitur ventrem). Washington D.C. Business Directory, International Organization for Standardization: Geneva, Source:"Distribution of Slaves in US History" Retrieved May 13 2010. ; .
Judicial appointments St Clair resigned his commission and Washington replaced him with Revolutionary War hero General Anthony Wayne From 1792 to 1793 Wayne instructed his troops on Indian warfare tactics and instilled discipline which was lacking under St Clair in August 1794 Washington sent Wayne into tribal territory with authority to drive them out by burning their villages and crops in the Maumee Valley. On August 24 the American army under Wayne's leadership defeated the western confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers and the Treaty of Greenville in August 1795 opened up two-thirds of the Ohio Country for American settlement. . President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers, Mexico showing no willingness to come to the Nueces to drive the invaders from her soil it became necessary for the "invaders" to approach to within a convenient distance to be struck Accordingly preparations were begun for moving the army to the Rio Grande to a point near Matamoras [sic] it was desirable to occupy a position near the largest centre of population possible to reach without absolutely invading territory to which we set up no claim whatever. .
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