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To: wideawake; 11th Commandment
It's also interesting that the South Carolina Secession Document explicitly complains that the Federal Government was not overriding various free state statutes regarding slavery.

The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, have enacted laws which either nullify the Acts of Congress or render useless any attempt to execute them. In many of these States the fugitive is discharged from service or labor claimed, and in none of them has the State Government complied with the stipulation made in the Constitution. The State of New Jersey, at an early day, passed a law in conformity with her constitutional obligation; but the current of anti-slavery feeling has led her more recently to enact laws which render inoperative the remedies provided by her own law and by the laws of Congress. In the State of New York even the right of transit for a slave has been denied by her tribunals; and the States of Ohio and Iowa have refused to surrender to justice fugitives charged with murder, and with inciting servile insurrection in the State of Virginia.

Typical Democrat double standard.

29 posted on 04/16/2008 8:42:48 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: ALPAPilot
Typical Democrat double standard.

Which double standard is that?

Di the Northern states encourage slavery in their own borders while discouraging expansion of Southern slavery?

No. No double standard there.

Did the Northern states pass ordinances of secession while denying the constitutionality of Southern ordinances?

No. No double standard there, either.

30 posted on 04/16/2008 8:55:47 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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