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be allowed only where it already existed, or would it be allowed to expand. If it could expand, then it seemed that it mightbe conceivable at some point even that the slaveholding states could end up with a majority. They were in a minority by 1860,'61 and feeling beleaguered, feeling threatened. They'd long since lost the population race to the free states.