Another group proposed that the question be left to "popular sovereignty," that is, the government should permit settlers to enter the new territory with or without slaves as they pleased and, when the time came to organize the region into states, the people themselves should determine the question. Southern opinion held that all the territories had the right to sanction slavery...
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The North asserted that no territories had the right. In 1848 nearly 300,000 men voted for the candidates of a Free Soil Party, who declared that the best policy was to limit, localize, and discourage slavery. The Midwestern and border state regions: Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri were even more divided, however, with many favoring popular sovereignty as a compromise...
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