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That's why it was legal in the states that didnt secede from the Union?

Slavery was still legal in the border states in 1861 but threatened with impending abolition by the rising Radical Republican tide. That's why almost all of the slaveholders in the border states supported the Confederacy.

Who said the following?

"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union (Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862)."

"I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and black races, which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."

All of the above are the words of Abraham Lincoln

And Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation EXCLUDED slaves in States not in Rebellion , therefore I conclude the War Between the States was about States Rights vs. Federal Control(itself controlled by large population states).

Slavery as an institution was still legal under Lincoln and the gov't in Washington, D.C. for two more years in the United States (Northern States) than in the Confederacy.

Or if you maintain that slavery was legal under Confederate law then you must acknowledge the legitimacy of the Confederacy ! Can't have it both ways.