Editing Compromise of 1850 (section)

===Other issues===
Aside from the disposition of the territories, other issues had risen to prominence during the Taylor years.{{sfn|Smith|1988|pp=98–99}} The [[Slavery in the District of Columbia|Washington, D.C. slave trade]] angered many in the North, who viewed the presence of slavery in the capital as a blemish on the nation. Disputes around [[fugitive slaves]] had grown since 1830 in part due to improving means of transportation, as the enslaved used roads, railroads, and ships to escape. The [[Fugitive Slave Act of 1793]] had granted jurisdiction to all state and federal judges over cases regarding fugitive slaves, but several Northern states, dissatisfied by the lack of [[due process]] in these cases, had passed [[personal liberty laws]] that made it more difficult to return alleged fugitive slaves to the South.{{sfn|Finkelman|pp=58–62, 71}} Congress also faced the issue of [[Utah]], which like California and New Mexico, had been ceded by Mexico. Utah was inhabited largely by Latter-day Saints whose then-practice of [[Mormonism and polygamy|polygamy]] was unpopular elsewhere in the United States.{{sfn|Smith|1988|pp=97–98}}