Kevin_Kennedy
Defend Liberty
- Aug 27, 2008
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Why this attempt to deny the obvious. The issue of States Rights was about a State's right to allow slavery.
Again, no State has the right to violate an indiviuals rights.
Slavery was not on the way out, it was being expanded with the growth of the United States.
Slavery was safer in the Union where the Constitution protected the "rights" of slave-owners, as opposed to out of the Union where northern states would have been able to ignore any Confederate claims to the Fugitive Slave Act. Of course, the five slave states that remained in the Union would have been permitted to continue it's practice of slavery.