States Rights to do just what exactly? Oh, yeah, chain people up, whip them and use them as slaves.
I get whipped every April 15th. We are ALL SLAVES NOW!
Thanks to the Illinois Butcher ™ "Over 600,000 served"
As far as I know, none of my ancestors that fought in CW I owned slaves. I think slavery wasn't even on the list of grievences that they had with the North. They are all gone now so that is speculation.
Shooter - have you ever studied Nullification? Or have you ever studied the resistance to expansion of Federal government power which was in play leading up to the Civil War?
I am one Southerner who does not deny that slavery was an issue leading to the war. However, there were other factors in the totality of the escalation of hostilities which lead to full blown war. The Civil War was not predicated solely on the issue of slavery. Resistance to the expansion of Federal power was more directly involved than was slavery.