...When the National Republican Association, which had for one of its objects the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia and in the Territories of the United States, was organized here in 1855, the feeling alluded to was so marked that one of the conditions of membership...

...points, declared the Friend of Man. They should be asked to pressure Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia and in the Territories of the United States under its control, and to stop the inter-state traffic in slaves. And second, they should rescind their...

...addressed to Congress, praying that body to abolish the internal Slave Trade between the States, Slavery in the District of Columbia, and in the Territories of the United States, and to prevent the admission of new Slave States, and Texas into the Union, by special request and invitation...

...2623, 46th Cong., 2d Sess. Stow's proposal was, however, introduced as "An Act to Regulate Estates in the District of Columbia and in the Territories of the United States." 10. Lura McNall, "Our Washington Letter," LDJ, September 25, 1879, 2. 11. "The Women's Convention,"...

...have the power, by the constitution of the United States, to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and in the territories of...congress refuse to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, that the seat of the general government ought to be removed from that District to a place...

...in both houses, are nearly united in the opinion that congress has the power to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia and in the territories of the United States. And a majority of them believe that congress has power to abolish the slave trade not only in the district,...

...civil effect." When the fact is considered that in the forty-five States of this American Union, and in the District of Columbia, and in the Territories of the United States, there is not a single locality in which a marriage solemnized by a clergyman is not civilly valid,...

...While taking little part in the debate he voted in the affirmative for the acts abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia and in the Territories of the United States. In 1864 he voted for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law and later for the Thirteenth Amendment. Indeed...

...impractical, the following indirect method has recently been proposed : Congress, having jurisdiction in the District of Columbia and in the territories of the United States, could appoint a competent commission to investigate the conditions and methods of the various companies,...