Although a large slaveholder, Bell opposed efforts to expand slavery to the U.S. territories. He vigorously opposed Pres. James Knox Polk's Mexican War policy and voted against the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska bill (1854), and the attempt to admit Kansas as a slave state. Bell's temperate support of slavery combined with his vigorous defense of the Union brought him the presidential nomination on the Constitutional Union ticket in 1860, but he carried only Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. :P
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John C. Calhounjohn c calhoun...the ones that wanted slavery
He tried to end slavery. ------------- he triggered the beginning of the civil war. He might not have ended it but he certainly started the war that ended it
believes that god has chosen him to stop slavery
He did wanted to end slavery
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