I think you only read half of that. The southern democrats wanted what we have now but the opposite. Force legal slavery in all states. They weren't fighting to make it a state issue. Reread what I wrote
The End if Slavery has to start somewhere, and by Rights, 10th Amendment, it should begin in the States, not in the federation....
Yet, Lincoln pulled out the U.S. Army and completely Conquered ALL of the states, and that's why we are in this nasty mess, he essentially Enslaved all of us, under the federal Govt....
But that war was still about States Rights, not about Slavery, and I really don't understand why you keep harping on Slavery, considering it was Legal in All the states to begin with, then one by one they began to get rid of it, New Jersey I believe was the last one....
I'm harping on slavery because that was the issue, the reason around why the states felt they wanted to leave the union. They wanted to keep slavery and felt that the Union was overstepping by telling them slavery was illegal. THE POINT you are missing is that if the southern candidate won, they were going to make is so states cannot make slavery illegal and force it to be legal in all states.
I think you only read half of that. The southern democrats wanted what we have now but the opposite. Force legal slavery in all states. They weren't fighting to make it a state issue. Reread what I wrote
The End if Slavery has to start somewhere, and by Rights, 10th Amendment, it should begin in the States, not in the federation....
Yet, Lincoln pulled out the U.S. Army and completely Conquered ALL of the states, and that's why we are in this nasty mess, he essentially Enslaved all of us, under the federal Govt....
But that war was still about States Rights, not about Slavery, and I really don't understand why you keep harping on Slavery, considering it was Legal in All the states to begin with, then one by one they began to get rid of it, New Jersey I believe was the last one....
I'm harping on slavery because that was the issue, the reason around why the states felt they wanted to leave the union. They wanted to keep slavery and felt that the Union was overstepping by telling them slavery was illegal. THE POINT you are missing is that if the southern candidate won, they were going to make is so states cannot make slavery illegal and force it to be legal in all states.
WOW, that's one I had not heard....
So they were going to Force the States, into making Slavery Legal, to the point that the States just couldn't vote against it???
Like stripping the States of their Right to make it Illegal???
Hmm, sounds like a States Rights issue to me....
Just to clarify are you saying that the southern democrats did not support a federal slave code in the 1860s?
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Again it's only a state issue to whichever side was losing and a federal issue to whoever was going to win.