In his First Inaugural Lincoln did not state that he would not enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. He did, however, imply that it should be reconsidered, particularly to make sure that those claimed to be slaves actually were slaves.
The odd part of this is that the Fugitive Slave Act had been admittedly passed to expand federal power and override states’ rights exercised by northern states.
Similarly, the actual issue on which the Democratic Party broke apart, ensuring Lincoln’s election, was over whether Congress should pass a Slave Code imposing slavery on all territories regardless of the wishes of the inhabitants.
Yet southern apologists, after the war and since, insist that they seceded in resistance to federal power. Whereas the facts indicated they seceded because the north refused to expand federal power in the way they wanted it to.
.....Exactly !!!!...that's the whole irony it was the south wanting the federal to impose the Supreme Court ruling on the northern states....
Truth be told after the Dred Scott ruling by the Supreme Court... the war was going to happen no matter who won control of the presidency ...
Because if the southern states candidate for president had won and he started using the federal in the north to enforce... the northern states would of gone in rebellion against the federal union