The loss of slavery would threaten the southern economy
The loss of slavery would threaten the Southern economy.
Southern plantation owners and southern people in general.
The Commerce Compromise addressed the conflict between Northern businessmen and Southern plantation owners over the issue of tariffs.
The whigs from the North were known as Conscience Whigs and those of the South were known as Cotton Whigs. The ones in the north opposed slavery except for the factory owners, which liked slavery die to the cheap cotton. the Southern Whigs supported slavery and wished to expand it into the territories.
The northern Democrats supported Stephen A. Douglas for President in 1860, but the southern Democrats withheld support for Douglas. The South demanded that Douglas repudiate the Freeport Doctrine and support a federal slave law. The Douglas supporters pointed out that to do that would drive the northern Democrats into the Republican Party.
The loss of slavery would threaten the Southern economy.
Southern farm owners needed the cheap labor to raise crops. Northern whites did not think it was good.
southern slave owners and northern slave traders banded together in the congress to strike out this PASSAGE ON SLAVERY.
They opposed it because they received cotton from the southern plantations for clothes so slavery was also a source of money for them.
Southern plantation owners and southern people in general.
Southern slave owners defended slavery, by stating that slavery had existed throughout history and was the natural state of mankind. Defenders of slavery argued that the institution was divine, and a good thing for the enslaved. They also noted that in the Bible, Abraham had slaves.
The Republican Party of 1860 was divided between the Northern party and the Southern Party. This was do to the Republican's stand on slavery and slave owners rights.
White people in the south were very critical of northern business owners. Their main criticism of the northern business owners was the poor way that they treated their workers.
not caring for their workers
southern slave owners said it was justified
Southern plantation owners feared the Missouri Compromise would limit the expansion of slavery, and eventually the institution of slavery itself.
The Commerce Compromise addressed the conflict between Northern businessmen and Southern plantation owners over the issue of tariffs.