31. The campaign had a different nature in the free states and the slave states . 32. The slave state governments believed that if slavery did not expand it would die. 33. Slave states such as Virginia made it easier for slaveholders to free their slaves.34. Hugh L . White ran in the remaining slave states except for South Carolina. 35. Eight remaining slave states continued to reject calls for secession. 36. Since the last slave state was admitted in 1845, five more free states had entered. 37. The United States Congress was likewise preoccupied with threats of secession by the slave states . 38. Texans rarely hide or apologize for the fact that this was once a slave state . 39. Nevertheless, he finished a remarkable second in all slave states won by Breckinridge and Douglas. 40. Fourteen free states and seven slave states were represented.
