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To: capitan_refugio
The legislature of the New Mexico Territory (comprising the present-day states of Arizona and New Mexico), passed slave codes in 1859.

Interesting to know, but I don't think it contradicts my point. Were there any significant numbers of freesoilers in New Mexico, and had they established a freesoil or antislavery ordinance that they abandoned as a consequence of Scott vs. Sanford?

455 posted on 11/20/2004 1:39:09 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus
" Were there any significant numbers of freesoilers in New Mexico [Territory]...?

My first response (tongue in cheek) is there were not then significant numbers of anything in New Mexico Territory. However, there must have been enough of each persuasion that when Charles F. Adams proposed statehood for New Mexico in the early 1861, in the Committee of 33, the southerners on the Committee were not too keen about it, and when it went to the whole House, the Republicans there were against it.

456 posted on 11/20/2004 1:56:23 AM PST by capitan_refugio
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