Nobody in the United States was owning slaves just for the sake of owning slaves. They owned slaves to make profit out of them. If you think slavery wasn't about money, you are a fool.
Really?
ROFLOL, that is your answer?
Let me look that your 'owners manual' for your slaves
...Diogenes Lamp can only purchase this slave for the purpose of planting and harvesting cotton to make money. All other uses are hereby prohibited to Diogenes Lamp. Prohibited uses: Building pyramids; Construction; Brick making; Accounting; Fornication; Reproduction; Fighting as a gladiator; Using to propel ships; Blacksmithing; Butlering; Manservant; etc. etc. etc....
Well looky there.
No wonder you have such a limited view on how you can use your slaves. You signed a limitation on their use when you purchased them.
Breckenridge and his fellow democrats were very clear that they wanted to be able to freely take their slaves into the territories if they wanted to.
That was why the infamous Douglas (D) sponsored and got passed the Kansas-Nebraska act. The act which allowed these two territories to vote if they were to be free or slave!
The act which causes a ten year bloody conflict in Kansas as both sides fought for supremacy
Quick side bar: Pst, there are more territories than just 'New Mexico'
Why even a blind mole knows that the Republican party formed in 1854 in direct opposition to the democrats Kansas-Nebraska act !
The Republicans were opposed to the expansion of slavery into the territories. The democrats were so scared of the Republicans that they quit the Union and started a civil war rather than submit to a split government with the Republicans controlling the Presidency and the House and them controlling the Courts and the Senate.
"Prohibited uses: Building pyramids; "
Uh, nobody was building pyramids in the United States.
"Fighting as a gladiator; Using to propel ships; Blacksmithing; Butlering; Manservant; etc. etc. etc...."
I'm glad this guy is on your side. He is a fool.
Quick side bar: Pst, there are more territories than just 'New Mexico'
Cause Mr. Brilliant Genius Pikachu thinks cotton might grow in even more northerly territories than the ones it wouldn't grow in in New Mexico.
Yeah, you got me there. I never thought to mention that perhaps they could grow cotton up in Utah territory. Good thing we have a smart guy like you to think of these things that we ordinary intelligence people would have missed.
The Republicans were opposed to the expansion of slavery into the territories.
Cause 12 of them in New Mexico territory was a national crises! There were more slaves in Delaware or Pennsylvania than in all of New Mexico territory.
To clarify the point, the Northern coalition headed by New York wealth, was very much against the expansion of voting members in congress allied with the Southern states, because they liked their Southern Milk Cow.
If they got more support in Congress, the Milk Cow might kick, and stop letting them have all the milk.
Headquarters of the "Free Soil" movement was in New York instead of a thousand miles to the West, where you know, the actual land was.
New York wealth and influence still runs the nation today.