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. . . Washington D.C. Business Directory, Noah Haynes Swayne January 21 1862 January 24 1862, The Fugitive Slave Act was essential to meet Southern demands in terms of public opinion in the North the critical provision was that ordinary citizens were required to aid slave catchers Many northerners deeply resented that requirement to help slavery personally Resentment towards the Act continued to heighten tensions between the North and South which were inflamed further by abolitionists such as Harriet Beecher Stowe Her book Uncle Tom's Cabin stressed the horrors of recapturing escaped slaves and outraged Southerners. 12 See also Lincoln in his late 30s as a member of the U.S House of Representatives Photo taken by one of Lincoln's law students around 1846. Each chamber determines its own internal rules of operation unless specified in the Constitution or prescribed by law in the House a Rules Committee guides legislation; in the Senate a Standing Rules committee is in charge Each branch has its own traditions; for example the Senate relies heavily on the practice of getting "unanimous consent" for noncontroversial matters. House and Senate rules can be complex sometimes requiring a hundred specific steps before a bill can become a law. Members sometimes turn to outside experts to learn about proper Congressional procedures. . The civilian population of northern Mexico offered little resistance to the American invasion possibly because the country had already been devastated by Comanche and Apache Indian raids Josiah Gregg who was with the American army in northern Mexico said that "the whole country from New Mexico to the borders of Durango is almost entirely depopulated the haciendas and ranchos have been mostly abandoned and the people chiefly confined to the towns and cities.", Nashville Convention Other enactments, Gen Kearny's annexation of New Mexico Territory August 15 1846.