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They were happy to enjoy the cotton revenues earned by the slave-holding South.

Also, most Northerners simply were not Abolitionists. They were usually prepared to tolerate slavery in its traditional heartlands. But they did not approve of an extended slave-empire in the South-west because it would give the South more power in Congress.

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