Another reason if you're, say, a ____________, why you might care whether a new state is a slave state, is you're worried about opportunities for yourself out in the West. We know that Horace Greeley, this famous newspaper editor, he says, "What do you do if you're a ______ in New York, a young white man, who doesn't know how to get ahead?" He says, "Go West,______ . "You can go out there, you can get some land, "you can start a farm, but if you go out there "and you find that all of the land has been bought up "by rich slaveholders from the South, "you might not be able to get any land, "and you certainly might not be able to, "for example, sell your corn at a rate low enough "that you could beat somebody who has free labor." So, there's this interesting economic argument which is it's hard to compete with slavery. I mean, you're literally talking about labor that does not need traditional wages.

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