6. As to the several States, Slavery did exist in all, except, perhaps, _Indiana_ and _Ohio_; and, I believe, there also. I mean that it existed without any _modification by law_. That is to say, Slaves and the children of Slaves were as much a white man's property as horses and the young ones of horses. In _Maryland_ (we are now going towards the North) there is now a mitigation of some sort; also in _Delaware_, _Pennsylvania_, _New Jersey_, _New York_, _Vermont_, and the _New England_, States. I do not know whether an _absolute abolition_ has taken place in any State; though I believe it has. In the State of _New York_ the law made all free that were born after a certain period; and after another certain period, those born slaves were to become free. I cannot take upon me to say exactly how the thing stands with regard to these States; but I believe, that if you bring your slave into a State with you, he does not become free by that act of yours; and that, if he escape from you and go into one of these States, he may be lawfully seized as a slave and taken away. _Delaware_ State and _Maryland_, which lie to the South of _Pennsylvania_ and join on to _Virginia_, appear, as the reader will find, to be the principal theatre of the Slave Trade, though, as will be seen, the villains who carry on the traffic have the audacity to carry it on even in the City of _Philadelphia_. 7. So much for the States. Now, which is very material to observe, the _Congress_, that is to say, the _Government of the Union_, has had allotted to it a _territorial jurisdiction_, exclusive of all the States. This spot is on the _Potomac River_, which divides _Maryland_ from _Virginia_. The territory thus allotted is a piece of land ten miles square, in the centre of which is the City of Washington. Now, we shall find this spot to be the very focus of the Slave Trade. The reader will see, in paragraph 46. an account of a drove of chained Negroes marching under the _Capitol_ of this very City; and Mr. TORREY gives an account of Members of Congress standing at the threshold of the building, viewing, on their march by, a troop of manacled slaves, one of whom raised up his manacled hands towards the building, while he sang, what Mr. TORREY calls the favourite National Song, "_Hail Columbia, happy Land! Hail the freest of the free!_" This spot is called the _district of Columbia_; and on this spot, Mr. TORREY tells us Slaves were employed when he was there, to re-erect the building burned down by the British. Yea, Slaves employed to raise up the magnificent Temple of Freedom!