[dblshot]

True but it would be easier to pass antislavery law as more non slave states joined the union.

[Genoa]

True but it would be easier to pass antislavery law as more non slave states joined the union.

The ruling political and economic segment of the south objected to the very idea that "non-slave states" would join the union. Each new non-slave state (or territory) would mean that owners of slaves could not take up residence in that state unless they divested themselves of their slaves.