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effort was to preserve the part of the United States west of the river to the PacificOcean as a slaveholding Confederacy.
Of course, if the European nations adopted the plan, it was certain that the vast majority of the negroes from the Carolinas to the river would be moved across it and that section would be an agricultural free-trade community.
It was, of course, an iridescent dream, but some of the ablest men in the South were dreaming it.’
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