[Harmless Teddy Bear]

So he owned slaves but was willing to give them up to join the north?

There was no need.

The only thing on the table at that point was if they were going hold off admitting free territories into the union as states until an equal number of slave territories could be invented to keep the "balance."

This was a matter for the congress.

But the election of a president that the slave states did not control was apparently cause for hysteria.

[dp0622]

Wow. I’m learning a truck full of info today!!

Come to think of it, I now don’t remember why the south seceded.

Though I think they saw the storm coming either way within a few years, no?