Well that's interesting, because you were previously complaining about the Feds interfering with state fugitive slave laws. I simply pointed out that states could not legally, under the US Constitution, make any laws that interfered with the return of slaves.
You miss the irony of course that when it benefited them, antebellum Southerners were all for a strong federal government.
And upon what particular event do you base this assertion? When were the Southerners calling for a stronger Federal government? I think Texas was wanting more troops on it's border with Mexico, but other than that, I'm not coming up with any examples of them wanting a stronger Federal Government.
When it didn’t, they were all for states rights.
I think they were pretty much for states rights from the very beginning. They weren't all that enthralled with joining the Union in the first place. Were it not for the efforts of Francis Marion dragging the British all through the South and greatly angering them, they would have likely remained as Colonies of England.
The only complaint I made in such regard is that these laws undermined the ex post facto Southern argument that Washington was undermining Southern interests before the Civil War. As BroJoeK pointed out numerous times, Southern interests virtually ran the federal government in the antebellum era.
“When were the Southerners calling for a stronger Federal government?”
Oy vey! In what world is setting up a hitherto nonexistent nationwide system of fugitive slave commissioners working for the feds with the power to impress citizen labor at will, NOT making a stronger Federal government?