You can educate us all wrote:
“The right”: ok. Look at “radical Republicans” vs those more likely to be called “conservatives” within the party at the time slavery ended, and tell me which one was the strong voice for ending slavery, and which had to be carried kicking and screaming into it?
And wasn’t Stephen Douglas a big “states’ right” guy of the century?
I wouldn’t call even “radical Republicans” left-wing (a point you were answering ), but it’s silly the way people like you use terms like “the right” so broadly and try to make points like that without taking into account, numerous differences in the political parties across centuries.