“As I said before, states could not be compelled to enforce federal law.”
But some states were failing to enforce their own laws, as well.
“And we all know that the South never, ever even considered nullification in any way, shape or form. </sarcasm>”
I think it was my mother who first told me “two wrongs don’t make a right”.
In any case, I was simply trying to use the words of the secessionists to convey what might have been their interpretation of various actions by federal and state officials as “tyrannical.”
What laws were those? The ones requiring a writ of habeas corpus, runaway slave or not? Or which guaranteed a slave the right to legal proceedings before being extradited? Laws like that?
I think it was my mother who first told me “two wrongs don’t make a right”.
No but it does make the first wrong guilty of incredible hypocrisy.