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no, because he belived that it would allow the minority to overrule the majority
Northern abolitionists - a growing body, but still a small minority.
Northerners were increasingly opposed to the extension of slavery into the new Western states. This meant that the slave-states would become a minority in Congress, and new laws would tend to favour the North at the expense of the South.
The Civil War could have been avoided in various ways. There had to be an agreement on how the government would be run that would have eliminated slavery, yet preserved prospects for occasional minority rule by bigots of all stripes, the utterly stupid and the irredeemably inhumane....
you would see a flapper in the 1920s which is also known as the "roaring twenties."