| 31. | The campaign had a different nature in the free states and the slave states.
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| 32. | The slave state governments believed that if slavery did not expand it would die.
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| 33. | Slave states such as Virginia made it easier for slaveholders to free their slaves.
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| 34. | Hugh L . White ran in the remaining slave states except for South Carolina.
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| 35. | Eight remaining slave states continued to reject calls for secession.
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| 36. | Since the last slave state was admitted in 1845, five more free states had entered.
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| 37. | The United States Congress was likewise preoccupied with threats of secession by the slave states.
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| 38. | Texans rarely hide or apologize for the fact that this was once a slave state.
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| 39. | Nevertheless, he finished a remarkable second in all slave states won by Breckinridge and Douglas.
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| 40. | Fourteen free states and seven slave states were represented.
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