A state’s right to what?
The articles of succession of the individual confederate states can answer that question for you. I’ll save you some reading: it’s what you think it is.
The articles of succession of the individual confederate states can answer that question for you. I’ll save you some reading: it’s what you think it is.
"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world." [0]
The same article of the Constitution stipulates also for rendition by the several States of fugitives from justice from the other States.
The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution.
> Article I Section 9(4)
> No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.
And, unsurprisingly, the politicians of the time were much less saccharine about states' rights and other garbage, like the guy who said:
"We have dissolved the late Union chiefly because of the negro quarrel."
This is all from this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Constitutio...