So far as the colored people of the country are concerned, the Constitution is but a stupendous sham, a rope of sand, a Dead Sea apple, fair without and foul within, keeping the promise to the eye and breaking it to the heart.
Douglass describes the Constitution as a deceptive promise that fails to deliver justice for Black Americans.
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The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.