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The Potomac River surges over the deck of Chain Bridge during the historic 1936 flood the bridge was so severely damaged by the raging water and the debris it carried that its superstructure had to be re-built; the new bridge was opened to traffic in 1939 (This photograph was taken from a vantage point on Glebe Road in Arlington County Virginia the houses on the bluffs in the background are located on the Potomac Palisades of Washington DC.)! . In 1839 Washington biographer Jared Sparks maintained that Washington's "...Farewell Address was printed and published with the laws by order of the legislatures as an evidence of the value they attached to its political precepts and of their affection for its author." in 1972 Washington scholar James Flexner referred to the Farewell Address as receiving as much acclaim as Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 2010 historian Ron Chernow reported the Farewell Address proved to be one of the most influential statements on Republicanism. Presidential election results In Alabama slaves were not allowed to leave their master's premises without written consent or passes This was a common requirement in other states as well and locally run patrols (known to slaves as pater rollers) often checked the passes of slaves who appeared to be away from their plantations in Alabama slaves were prohibited from trading goods among themselves in Virginia a slave was not permitted to drink in public within one mile of his master or during public gatherings Slaves were not permitted to carry firearms in any of the slave states, West Indies: Hamilton 12 Notes Judiciary Square General Hospital Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans that existed in the United States of America in the 17th 18th and 19th centuries Slavery had been practiced in British America from early colonial days and was legal in all Thirteen Colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 it lasted in about half the states until 1865 when it was prohibited nationally by the Thirteenth Amendment As an economic system slavery was largely replaced by sharecropping and convict leasing. .

On March 4 1865 Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address in it he deemed the endless casualties to be God's will Historian Mark Noll claims this speech to rank "among the small handful of semi-sacred texts by which Americans conceive their place in the world".:426 Lincoln said:, 1.1 Origins 1964 85.5% 169,796 14.5% 28,801, The Battle of Chapultepec. . .