1 Economic Argument Without another institution instituted the southern economy would collapse without slavery, thus weakening the whole union Make slaves indentured servants and let them earn there way to freedom and prosperity . 2 Popular Soverinty Argument . People in the state or territory , when the majority of the people as a whole want or don’t want an institution to exist, the state or territory themselves will get rid of it 3 I f you eliminated slavery and suddenly have all these people free , it will create chaos and economically having so many more people in the job market skyrocketing the unemployment , economic collapse , the south needs them right now,Again can add better treatment for the slaves . ship them somewhere else , don’t want them here as the races will not get along . 4 Compromise such as the Missouri compromise, if you are gonna add states to the union, make 1 state a slave state and the other a free state to make sure the union is evened out. 5 can accept slavery under certain conditions because a significant portion of the northeren economy depends on the use and shipping of southern goods , especially cotton. The north would probably not have been able to survive without materials and revenues generated by the agricultural elements of the south.