He avoided them because he didn’t want to draw in much attention
Laws, they are balanced with laws.
The Northwest Ordinance, was enacted when the Northwest Territory was created to make it a legal territory. It also established the ability of the U.S government to expand westward.
The South was fighting a defensive war. The confederates prefer a defensive doctrine to defeat the numerically superior Union forces and to invite foreign powers especially Great Britain in their side thus winning the war against the Union forces in the American civil war.
