[deelowe]

The states really screwed this up when certain ones decided their love for cotton and hatred for brown people was more important than their sovereignty.

[pyuser583]

The federal government had no problem with slavery. It was clearly enshrined in the Constitution.

[int_19h]

Slave states complained that the feds weren't doing enough to force the free states to abide by the fugitive slave laws, to give one example.