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On Thursday December 12 1799 Washington inspected his farms on horseback in snow and sleet He returned home late for dinner but refused to change out of his wet clothes not wanting to keep his guests waiting He had a sore throat the following day but again went out in freezing snowy weather to mark trees for cutting That evening he complained of chest congestion but was still cheerful On Saturday he awoke to an inflamed throat and difficulty breathing so he ordered estate overseer George Rawlins to remove nearly a pint of his blood a practice of the time His family summoned Doctors James Craik Gustavus Richard Brown and Elisha C Dick. (Dr William Thornton arrived some hours after Washington died.), Powers of Congress Scott's Mexico City campaign. Thomas Lynch South Carolina 1 Yes Washington and Georgetown retained their separate charters for seventy years until the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 That Act cancelled the charters of the towns and brought the entire area within the District borders under one district government ending any distinction between "the District of Columbia" and "Washington" making the two terms effectively synonymous. Main article: George III of Great Britain, 1.4 Growth and redevelopment At the beginning of the war some Union commanders thought they were supposed to return escaped slaves to their masters by 1862 when it became clear that this would be a long war the question of what to do about slavery became more general the Southern economy and military effort depended on slave labor it began to seem unreasonable to protect slavery while blockading Southern commerce and destroying Southern production as Congressman George W Julian of Indiana put it in an 1862 speech in Congress the slaves "cannot be neutral as laborers if not as soldiers they will be allies of the rebels or of the Union." Julian and his fellow Radical Republicans put pressure on Lincoln to rapidly emancipate the slaves whereas moderate Republicans came to accept gradual compensated emancipation and colonization. Copperheads the border states and War Democrats opposed emancipation although the border states and War Democrats eventually accepted it as part of total war needed to save the Union. . Destination Percentage [E]very assemblage of negroes for the purpose of instruction in reading or writing or in the night time for any purpose shall be an unlawful assembly Any justice may issue his warrant to any office or other person requiring him to enter any place where such assemblage may be and seize any negro therein; and he or any other justice may order such negro to be punished with stripes. . .