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So long as the number of slave states was the same as or greater than the number of free states, then in the Senate the South had a check on the government.

— William C. Davis Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America (2002)

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Always there had been the complicated factor of the one institution that peculiarly set the South apart from the North, slavery...

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