11. John J. Crittenden: believed carrying slaves over to New Mexico or California was no great matter.
12. Senator Jefferson Davis: denounced the Californias fee state constitution seeing that admission of CA as the 16 th free state would offset the balance of power against slave states in the Senate .
15. .Repeal of the ban on slavery was the price that Senator Stephen Douglaas had to pay for Southern support of the territorial organization of Kansas and Nebraska.