Even those who did not wish to end slavery in the South felt that slavery should not spread further.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

It was free because Congress -- in the Missouri Compromise of Eighteen Twenty -- made slavery illegal in that area.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Buchanan told him that slavery in the territory must be decided on the votes of the people of the territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

And,he said he thought that all the free Negroes of the North would come to fight slavery with him.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

He said the amendment should recognize the right to own slaves as property in states where slavery was permitted.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

They wanted new states to be free from slavery, so they would not have to compete with slave labor.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

On the question of slavery in the new territories, Cass believed that the people of the territory should make the decision.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Most anti-slavery men did not vote, because their names had been kept off the voting lists by pro-slavery officials.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

But one of the men defending the town believed that the battle against the forces of slavery must continue.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

But he was also right that it would be the first step toward ending slavery in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

One platform declared that the people of a territory had the right to decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

He claimed that living in Illinois and Wisconsin -- where slavery was illegal -- had made him a free man.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

He also believed pro-slavery extremists would use Lincoln's election as an excuse to take Southern states out of the union.

VOA: special.2009.07.09