It must have grieved the saints in the North terribly to be forced into a Union led by a Virginia slave owner. Washington.
Well actually it did. Which is why the Massachusetts Essex Junto began flirting with secession as early as the election of Thomas Jefferson, the man they called “the Negro President” the agent of “the Slave Power”. They got closer to leaving the Union with their 1814 Hartford Convention, when they planned to join up with England when we were at war with England. Patriots, those New Englanders.
I never said the north were saints. The issue of slavery was a contentious issue from the very beginning of the founding. The fact still remains the South seceded because of slavery. To say otherwise is to whistle past the graveyard.