...sixteenth paragraph of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution, it is provided, " That congress shall have power to exercise exclusive...the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature, in which the same...

...the enumeration of the powers of Congress, in the 8th section of the 1st article, in these words : " Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation,...the seat of Government of the United States ; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by consent of the legislature of the State in which...

...there can be no difference of opinion. In article 1, section 8, of the constitution, it is declared that Congress shall have power " to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." The words arc full, clear, and explicit. The power extends to "legislation in all cases...

...them. In the eighth section of the first article of the constitution, a right is enumerated : " The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." The power delegated to the Congress by virtue and force of this clause, is eminently...

...clause of the 8th section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States, it is declared that Congress shall have power, " to exercise exclusive...the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by consent of the legislature of the State in which...

...the Union, possesses the power to abolish slavery in its capital, and refuses to exercise it. " The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States."— Constitution U. Slates, Art. 1st, Sec. 8. The honor and good faith of this nation...

...examination, to the 17th clause of the same section, from which we have just quoted, where it reads — " The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, &c." No one can reasonably suppose theframers of the Constitution foresaw the importance,...

...and of no force whatever. He read clause 17, sec. 8, art. 1, of the constitution, as follows : "The Congress shall have power, to exercise exclusive legislation...the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise -like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the State in...

...United States." Now, that section to which reference is thus expressly made in these deeds of cession, declares, that Congress shall have power " to exercise...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." Nothing, therefore, as it seems to me, can be clearer than that the States making the...

...authority over the land either expressly or by necessary implication. The Constitution of the United States declares that Congress shall have power to exercise " exclusive legislation " in all " cases whatsoever " over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the State in which...