As the now popular saying now goes, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas'. Well it was supposed to be 'What happens in New York, stays in New York' and 'What happens in South Carolina, stays in South Carolina'. In only a very few things did the United States Government ever have to power to dictate anything to the States. Lincoln took that power away from the states at the point of a Bayonet with the help of an ignorant people who thought they were doing something good.