Your animosity towards the south is very plain.
Animosity has nothing to do with truth...please refute, or at the very least, address the argument brought up of the Fugitive Slave Act, if you can...and then answer the question why were the Southern people, through their state governments, usurping the rights of the Northern people, again through government, by requiring the return of escaped slaves, under penalty of law...and thereby causing these non slaveholders to participate in the practice of slavery...?
Yes, it’s a complex issue, and to study it in depth requires more than throwaway posts on a forum...it requires an open mind, for one thing...
“...please refute, or at the very least, address the argument brought up of the Fugitive Slave Act”
That’s easy enough. By 1850 there was already a secession sentiment going around the South. In order to stifle secession talk and keep the country together Whig leader Henry Clay proposed his Compromise of 1850 which included the Fugitive Slave Act.
Nationalist Whigs who would otherwise have opposed state’s rights passed the bill. It was their baby, their long time leader had crafted it, so they were stuck with enforcing it. Democrats who otherwise would champion states rights didn’t object to it since it served the interests of their section.
It was compromise politics at its finest, no principals needed. But the issue of state’s rights, the Principles of ‘98 as authored by Jefferson and Madison, was still undecided. Lincoln would settle the issue by the venerable policy of killing off its supporters.