 Now we just wanted to go back to the states, which of course was the situation at that time. Anyway, we wanted to go back to the states. We'll let them decide. We're all in favor. We don't want slavery, but we're okay with it. If some states decide to do slavery, that would be ridiculous. It would be a complete betrayal of what the abolitionist movement had stood for up to that point. Frederick Douglass, for example.