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Welcome or unwelcome, such decision is probably coming, and will soon be upon us, unless the power of the present political dynasty shall be met and overthrown. (88)
The power of the slaveholders had been significant in American politics since the beginning. That's why Congress had been bending over backwards to keep the balance of slave and non-slave states with legislation like the Missouri Compromise. Part of the reason the North had been so resistant to the expansion of slavery was their dislike of the power concentrated in a small group of elite plantation owners, not just in the economy but in government as well.