The last of a Democratic Party dominated by the slave-holding states was left to a remnant.

Its founders, including Salmon P. Chase, held deep moral opposition to slavery, and were thus appalled by legislation that could lead to more slave-holding states.

Unlike his predecessors, he carried not one slave-holding state.

There was concern that an increase in the number of slave-holding states created out of the new territory would exacerbate divisions between north and south as well.

Initially, secessionists hoped for a peaceful departure, including all slave-holding states in the Union.

He plans to finish his work in the five remaining former slave-holding states by August 1995.

He foresaw the decline in relative power of the slave-holding states, although at this time he did not believe it would necessarily lead to secession.

Chase also took the high moral line that no man from a slave-holding state (which included Maryland and Missouri) should serve in a Republican cabinet.

We are a slave-holding state, much connected with our neighbors in Virginia.

There were the slave-holding states of the South, the tradesmen of the North, small states and large.