No, its not technically correct! I know the whole “state’s rights to what” meme is fun, but seriously, the south was trying to compel the Federal government to infringe on the rights of other states with regards to fugitive slaves. If they were the true bastions of states’ rights that lost causers argue they were, then they wouldn’t have had a problem with that.
State’s rights to slavery.
No, its not technically correct! I know the whole “state’s rights to what” meme is fun, but seriously, the south was trying to compel the Federal government to infringe on the rights of other states with regards to fugitive slaves. If they were the true bastions of states’ rights that lost causers argue they were, then they wouldn’t have had a problem with that.