Works very well except for folks like you and Mr. Olive.
They already had slavery. They weren't leaving to get something they already had.
And a newly elected administration bound and determined to keep it from expanding. With every newly admitted state the power of the slave states would decline. Better to leave and establish there own country where the idea of a non-slave state wasn't something they had to worry about.
Because by leaving they were going to get more slavery?
That was one of their aims, yes.
I used to believe that "expansion" bullsh*t, but then I started looking at the facts. It wasn't going to expand.
Efforts to contain "expansion" of slavery were in fact, efforts to contain the slave states voting numbers in the House and the Senate. Had nothing to do with actually containing slavery.
Yes, I know, you think slavery would have somehow been made to work in the territories, even though i've shown you they couldn't do anything with their primary cash crops in the territories.
I think i've also pointed out to you that when "New Mexico Territory" extended from the West border of Texas all the way to California, they only had a dozen slaves in the entire territory.
If there was any money in it, they would have had far more, so clearly there wasn't any money in it.
With every newly admitted state the power of the slave states would decline.
But the 75% of all the taxes being paid by them would remain exactly as it was. This is a really good deal for those on the spending side of the equation and those on the receiving side of the money.
Makes it a lot easier to understand why the "Free Soil Party" was headquartered in New York city, just like the sort of Soros style Astroturn organization it was.
The whole thing about "expansion" was just a sham to insure the money people in Washington DC and New York kept getting the money.