WRONG. THEY STATED as a fact that SLAVERY was LEGAL and protected by the DAMN CONSTITUTION and declared if they wanted to stop SLAVERY......legislate the appropriate laws. It was a matter of states rights as defined under the constitutional rule of law. Have you ever actually studied history?
A war as fought over the question of whether slavery was a states' rights issue.
The side that said it was lost that war.
So it wasn't a states' rights issue.