Too often ruinously lavish in their personal expenditures, they believed in an economical government, and, throughout the long period of their domination, they guarded the Treasury with rigid and unceasing vigilance against every attempt at extravagance, and against every form of corruption.
Looking into the future, the Southern men took alarm lest the equality of their section should be lost in the Senate, and their long control of the Federal Government ended.

Even with Texas added to the Union, this equality was barely maintained, for Wisconsin was already seeking admission; and the clause in the articles of annexation providing that four new States might be carved out of the territory of Texas whenever she asked it, gave no promise of speedy help to the South.

Its operation would, in any event, be distant, and subject to contingencies which could not be accurately measured.

There was not another foot of territory south of 36 deg.

30', save that which was devoted to the Indians by solemn compact, from which another slave State could be formed.
North of 36 deg.