Pro-Slavery
The powers and privileges the conservative party sought to maintain and defend were:
The unlimited authority of the master or owner of slaves.
Abrogation of marriage and the family relation among slaves.
The power to enforce labor without wages.
Incapacity of the slaves to acquire and hold property.
Incapacity to enjoy civil, domestic, and political rights.
Incapacity to make contracts or bargains.
The liability of the slave to be sold like other chattels, and separated from relatives.
The authorized prosecution of the inter-state slave-trade.
The power of the master to forbid education, and to permit religious gatherings at his own discretion.
The power of the legislatures of slave-states to prohibit education of slaves by their masters.