[SatinDoll]

You do realize that is the same argument used by southern states to declare slavery was a state issue and not federal?

All they had to do was deny black Africans as being human.

[Wuli]

“You do realize that is the same argument used by southern states to declare slavery was a state issue and not federal?”

You do realize that the U.S. Constitution did not prohibit slavery, until AFTER the civil war, and that it was NOT on the issue of slavery that Lincoln went to war, it was seccession.