States rights are never a ‘bad cause’. You liberals simply hate freedom.
States rights to what?
States rights to protect rapists and kidnappers from justice? I think that is the worst of bad causes.
If you disagree, then may you not suffer from rape and kidnapping. I hope you do not disagree.
Freedom to rape or kidnap is only achieved at the cost of another having to suffer rape or kidnap. Logically there can be no right to enslave, lest noone have rights, as anyone can be enslaved.
That is what we saw in the pretended confederacy. It was begun based on the promotion of negro slavery, and continued through slavery of everyone through pretended conscription by the insurrection, to torture of white soldiers accused of desertion from the false cause, to murder of southern soldiers who through illness or starvation could not keep up with the enthusiasm of their commanders on horse back.
Far from being about rights, the 1860-65 insurrection was about removing rights from anyone who did not have wealth or political pull enough to own slaves.
The tragic irony being that, in the name of freedom...... they managed to enslave us all.