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The Republican Party was and still is anti slavery. Abraham Lincoln, the president that ended slavery, was a Republican. The Democrat Party supported slavery. Many that fought, fought to defend their state regardless of their views on slavery.
Anti-Slavery
James K. Polk was not an abolitionist. He owned slaves and passed them down to his family when he died... he denied the Wilmot Proviso, although he wanted to continue the 36° 30' line west to the pacific so that slavery could not be established anywhere north of the line...
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Because slavery was the mainstay of the cotton industry.