We aren’t speaking of morality, we are discussing the the fact that the South had every legal right to their property.
And the fact that the Abolitionists brought about sectional hatred by interfering in a matter that not only didn’t concern them, but was some other section of the countries business! Regardless of what was in the Confederate Constitution, Slavery would have ended for economic reasons within about 20-50 years at the most. And they DID have a legal right to slavery, etc. That is the whole point here.
Free Speech doesn’t give you the right to cause trouble.
I have news for you, people are not property, no matter what any law says about it.
Now, the South had a Constitutional right to slavery, but who was denying them that-not Lincoln.
What was denied by the slave owners any right by anyone else to oppose it or denounce it.
The fact that slaves were counted for representative purposes (3/5 rule) shows that the Founders did not consider slaves as mere 'property'.
So, the slave owners wanted the slaves regarded as human for representative purposes (being over represented in the House, where they instituted the infamous gag rule) but for other purposes they wanted the slave to be considered 'property'.
As for ending slavery, how do you know that?
And it ending in 20-50 years, why is the slave made to wait for what is rightfully his.
If the South had been serious about ending slavey they would have accepted the election of Lincoln and the efforts to limit its spread, not fight a war to keep it.
And one final point, if slavery existed today, it would have been defended as a noble good by the pro-Confederates on these threads, stating that it was ‘legal’ and that their great-great-great-great grandfathers had owned slaves, so it is a tradition that should be continued.