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your position is illogical. If the south wasn’t worried about simple vote than why was all the fuss for 25 years.

I don’t say slavery WAS going anywhere I said that slavery COULD flourish somewhere where there wasn’t tobacco or cotton. you seem indirectly deny this simple obvious point.

That is the only point made and you cannot wrap your head around your own illogic.

Additionally you may need to bone up on other issues in the country impacting slavery and stop using the old saw the south uses to justify their practice of holding other human beings as slaves and tonight a war that killed so many americans.

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/abolitionist-movement

https://www.historynet.com/abolitionist-movement

If you admit the error of your original statement about tobacco and cotton, I may respond to your next reply. Otherwise, good night.

I don’t say slavery WAS going anywhere I said that slavery COULD flourish somewhere where there wasn’t tobacco or cotton. you seem indirectly deny this simple obvious point.

*HOW* was it going to "flourish"? What were they going to get a slave to do in New Mexico to make them a lot of money? What were they going to get a slave to do in Arizona to make them a lot of money? Colorado? Oklahoma?

You say "mining" and sheep ranching or something. And you think this would make them more money then growing cotton in Mississippi? And how many would there be? Hundreds of Thousands as in Mississippi, or some other Southern states? Like I said, in all of New Mexico Territory, there was hardly any slaves.

The status of slavery during the territorial period provoked considerable debate. The granting of statehood was up to a Congress sharply divided on the slavery issue. Some (including Stephen A. Douglas) maintained that the territory could not restrict slavery, as under the earlier Missouri Compromise, while others (including Abraham Lincoln) insisted that older Mexican Republic legal traditions of the territory, which abolished black, but not Indian, slavery in 1834, took precedence and should be continued. Regardless of its official status, slavery was rare in antebellum New Mexico, Black slaves never numbered more than about a dozen.[1]

If you admit the error of your original statement about tobacco and cotton, I may respond to your next reply. Otherwise, good night.

I am not wrong. Slavery was going no where outside the places it already existed.