I would suggest that you read Article I, Sec. 9, of the Constitution, and stop trying to pick fights with people from the one region of America, which has the highest level of support for traditional American freedom.
Or maybe you would consider the views of Massachusetts' Senator Daniel Webster, the leading anti-slavery voice in the North, for many years, on the Constitutional argument: Daniel Webster.
There is no slavery issue in America in 2015, except that which goes to the contemporary attack on our liberty being waged by the Obama Administration. Conservatives need to come together on that issue, while continuing to recognize that the Constitution deliberately left issues of health, safety & morals to the States.
I'm familiar with it....what's your point?
and stop trying to pick fights with people from...
Irrelevant.
Or maybe you would consider the views of Massachusetts' Senator Daniel Webster...
Seen it. Sad to see that he was an apologist for the Peculiar Institution. I guess it goes to show that even great minds can be wrong. Conservatives need to come together on that issue, while continuing to recognize that the Constitution deliberately left issues of health, safety & morals to the States.
Lost Causers can't have it both ways. You can't claim that slavery was purely an individual state issue at the same time as the southern states DEMANDED that the federal government involve itself in forcing Free States to participate in the unseemly act of hunting and repatriating runnaway slaves.