[rustbucket]

I notice he isn't very specific about what rights the south had "could not enjoy" in the union.

Perhaps the following might answer your question. Again from Jefferson Davis on the floor of the US Senate in 1861:

Is there a Senator on the other side who to-day will agree that we shall have equal enjoyment of the Territories of the United States? Is there one who will deny that we have equally paid in their purchases, and equally bled in their acquisition in war? Then, is this the observance of your compact? Whose fault is it if the Union be dissolved? Do you say there is one of you who controverts either of these positions? Then I ask you, do you give us justice; do we enjoy equality? If we are not equals, this is not the Union to which we were pledged; this is not the Constitution you have sworn to maintain, nor this the Government we are bound to support.

[hirn_man]

Southernors enjoyed all the rights in the territories that everyone else did. No more, no less.


"The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States"

Sounds to me like Mr Davis and his ilk wanted to ursurp the constitution.

Maybe be he should of tried to amend the darned thing more to his liking.

Of course that would of meant persuading a majority of his fellow countrymen that his side was right.