History of the United States . have been chiefly the workof George Mason, of Virginia, a neighbor of George Washington, and theauthor of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, adopted June 12, 1776. It is worth recalling that when President Washington made his semi-official tour of the New England States in the fall of 1789, Rhode Island wasthen foreign territory, and he did not venture into that commonwealthuntil it had ratified the Constitution, In hke manner, North Carolina wasan independent State that for a time interposed itself between the middleStates and the far south. PROBLEMS OF THE NEW
History of the United States . have been chiefly the workof George Mason, of Virginia, a neighbor of George Washington, and theauthor of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, adopted June 12, 1776. It is worth recalling that when President Washington made his semi-official tour of the New England States in the fall of 1789, Rhode Island wasthen foreign territory, and he did not venture into that commonwealthuntil it had ratified the Constitution, In hke manner, North Carolina wasan independent State that for a time interposed itself between the middleStates and the far south. PROBLEMS OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. IGl States had already paid a larger proportion of their individualdebts than had other States. The debate on this question was an extended one, notwithstand-ing Hamiltons masterly argument in favor of the plan he had pro-posed. Its opponents were powerful and they might have preventedits adoption but for a compromise in connection with another so happened that Virginia and a number of the southern States. GEORGE WASHINGTON TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE AT INAUGURATION AS THE FIRST PRESI-DENT OF THE UNITED STATES, NEW YORK, APRIL 30, 1789 had been the ones to pay the larger proportion of their respectivewar debts. At the same time, southern Congressmen were desirousof placing the proposed national capital on the banks of |;°5^*jj^.^^^the Potomac rather than in the northern States where itainorthern representatives wished it to remain. Finally, a compro-mise was effected, by which it was agreed that the Federal govern-ment should assume the State debts, and that the Federal capitalshould be established on the Potomac instead of at Philadelphia.^ 2 The debt of the Confederation amounted to $54,000, debts of the States amounted to $25,000,000 The various 162 ESTABLISHING THE GOVERNMENT Another important question was brought to the attention ofCongress in the form of petitions from the Quakers of PennsylvaniaThe slavery for the abohtiou of slavery.
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