First: Did you read the REST:
By the disloyalty of the Northern States and their citizens and the imbecility of the Federal Government, infamous combinations of incendiaries and outlaws have been permitted in those States and the common territory of Kansas to trample upon the federal laws, to war upon the lives and property of Southern citizens in that territory, and finally, by violence and mob law, to usurp the possession of the same as exclusively the property of the Northern States.
The Federal Government, while but partially under the control of these our unnatural and sectional enemies, has for years almost entirely failed to protect the lives and property of the people of Texas against the Indian savages on our border, and more recently against the murderous forays of banditti from the neighboring territory of Mexico; and when our State government has expended large amounts for such purpose, the Federal Government has refuse reimbursement therefor, thus rendering our condition more insecure and harassing than it was during the existence of the Republic of Texas.
These and other wrongs we have patiently borne in the vain hope that a returning sense of justice and humanity would induce a different course of administration.
Second: Slavery was LEGAL at the time. (regardless of what we think today)
Read post #97 please.....
Classic BS. Slaveholders from Missouri (my home state) initiated the use of violence and mob rule in an attempt to control KS.
These methods were retaliated upon them, they lost the ensuing fight, and then they retreated to the position that they had been unjustly attacked without provocation.
Come to think of it, that's almost exactly what happened in the larger WBTS.
I pick an unnecessary fight. I lose, due to severely underestimating my opponent, and spend the next few centuries portraying myself as the victim of unprovoked aggression.
Nice work, if you can get it.
Lincoln approved of slave ownership foe his supporters, and denied it as a bad thing for his opponents.