Parse it back far enough and you can blame it on Eve in the garden.
Would North Carolina have come to the defense of Pennsylvania if Lincoln was raising an army to subjugate them?
What do you think?
“Would North Carolina have come to the defense of Pennsylvania if Lincoln was raising an army to subjugate them?”
Had I been a Pennsylvanian feeling oppressed, I sure would not have counted on it!
Why can’t you just admit the obvious: The South WANTED slavery. And they resented being told it was wrong, and they realized they were losing political power since slavery was not being allowed to expand into new states.
Let me flip your question: Would North Carolina have supported Utah’s “state right” to legalize polygamy? Would they have sent troops to help Utah fight for their “right” to have multiple wives? The only “state right” that united the Confederacy was the right to own slaves and to take them with you anywhere you traveled in the USA.
They were not subtle about it. Go read the speeches made, or why the politicians boasted they voted for leaving the Union. You will find “slavery” comes up again and again and again...