Here is an example of an article which agrees with my position, but which I find troublesome in posting, as I do not know the credentials of the author or his sources for his opinions.

http://www.suite101.com/content/examining-the-confederate-constitution-a115967

Right to Slaves Guaranteed
Article I, Section 9 of the Confederate Constitution provided: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in Negro slaves shall be passed."

Article IV, Section 2, stated: "The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired."

The Confederate Constitution was ostensibly based on states’ rights, but these did not include the right to outlaw slavery. Article IV, Section 3, provides that in all Confederate states and territories, “the institution of Negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress and by the territorial government.”

Jim