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Yes, they opposed the expansion of slavery.
After Texas gaining their independence from Mexico. Texas asked the US to annex them thus entering the union as a slave state.
Southerners favored the annexation of Texas, but Northerners objected that Texas would add another slave state to the Union.
Well no one really knows the correct answer because all documentation of the annexation of Texas Was lost in a tragic fire which killed approximately 40 people.
The United States had attempted to balance the number of slave states with the number of states that opposed slavery. By allowing Texas to become a part of the United States, the balance would have shifted.