PLeaseeee answer 4. What was the position of the majority of southern slave owners? _____ a. They demanded slavery be made legal throughout the United States, or they would secede. b. They condemned slavery in principle as immoral, while wanting to keep their own slaves. c. They thought each state should decide for itself whether to be a free state or a slave state. d. They asked that the U.S. Supreme Court settle the matter once and for all.