If you will recall, several weeks ago I posted a document written by one of my Harris' relatives who served as a Representative in the Congress of the United States and in the Congress of the Confederate States of America and if memory serves me also as a judge in both the Confederate States and also after his state was re-admitted to the Union. I believe the document was written just prior to the beginning of the Civil War.

In this statement, he stated that he found that most of the plantation owners, who owned slaves did not voice vigorous objection to the expansion of slavery into the western territories, but it was mostly plantation managers, or slave masters of the field slaves, who were afraid that the slave owners might sell some of their slaves that worked the plantations into the free territories if slavery was permitted to expand.

They feared their standing in the local community might be downgraded in society This document went on to say that the plantation owners spent a great deal of their time on the riverboats or at other resorts where they spend their time gaming and partying and had little interest in the slavery question. If anyone has an interest in the document they may contact me at eggs1234@att.com and I will send it to you as a forward.