I don't think this is true, but even if it is, why does a change in Northern Public opinion have to be binding on people in other states? Isn't that what we are facing now with "gay" rights? They are going to shove that down our throats because people in New York and Los Angeles (In other words, people in powerful wealthy states who control the media) have decided that this is *THEIR* new morality.
The Northern states agreed to the Institution of slavery. They made a devil's bargain, and then they had second thoughts about it after Southern Support had helped to make them a free and Independent country. (I dare say the Virginian Leadership contributed more to the cause than any of the other states.)
Slavery existed in Maryland during the Civil war. If I remember correctly, the US Government even owned slaves itself.
You keep barking up this slavery tree because you really don't have a better argument, I think.
You should know better than to conflate homosexual activism for the struggle against slavery. They aren't the same (people learn this in the third grade).
You keep barking up this slavery tree because you really don't have a better argument, I think.
Thinnk again.