VP: There is no roundtable no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact.

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46. Exactly! The secessionist states did not want another compromise. They wanted to extend

Slavery to any new territories because that's what big business always does. When Britain and most other stable countries abolished slavery, there was desperate need to create new markets to sell "excess" slaves. Because enslaved people were valuable not only for their forced labor, they were a great source of wealth in the form of collateral for loans and selling "excess" slaves. The election of Lincoln meant that they would not be able to do that.