I was reading about events leading up to the Civil War where they proposed a compromise to allow new States to vote on whether they wanted to allow slavery or not. The current federal legislation allowed slavery below the Mason-Dixon line but the new States were territory gained from Mexico who had outlawed slavery. The liberal politicians fought it because they wanted to keep the current law. It showed their duplicity. They wanted their States to determine if they allowed slavery or nor and felt the federal government should not tell them whether to have slaves because they were afraid the federal government would abolish slavery, yet they felt the federal government should determine whether the new States had slavery because they were afraid the States might abolish slavery in their borders. In other words, they didn’t care about State’s rights, all they cared about was protecting slavery from which they profited. They felt the slaves were not capable of taking care of themselves and needed the plantation owners to care for them.