how can people still say that the civil war was about states rights when the states rights argument was originally used by northerners to fight fugitive slave laws, including the 1850 fugitive slave law which was drafted by Senator Mason of Virginia and supported by a wide array of southern politicians, including Senator Barnwell who ended up serving in the Senate of the CSA?
"The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization."
"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition."
"Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain classes of the same race; such were and are in violation of the laws of nature. Our system commits no such violation of nature’s laws. With us, all of the white race, however high or low, rich or poor, are equal in the eye of the law. Not so with the negro. Subordination is his place. He, by nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system."
This dude was appointed vice president of the Confederacy.
