Northern states did pass individual state laws outlawing slavery or defining a plan for emancipation. They couldn’t “simply make slavery illegal” - they knew that would take an amendment to the Constitution.
Couldn’t, wouldn’t, shouldn’t, sounds like excuses excuses excuses.
It wasn’t even attempted. That says a lot about how much moral outrage was involved, i.e. none.
If the moral differences between the North and South were so irreconcilable, then secession would have been the perfect way to solve the problem. Apparently, the North NEEDED the South to stay in the Union, no matter what they were doing to blacks.
Not that whites in the North were a bunch of racial egalitarians, even as late as the 1970s.
So enough of the libtard talk. Don’t like the Confederate flag? Tango Sierra. It’s going to be around as long as people get outraged by it. Trying to eliminate it will send it underground, where it will gain even more power as a subversive symbol.
Don’t be a dolt.