Our Constitution, which was the work of Freedom-loving men, which was watched by Freedom's champions, which, like the Ark of the Covenant, was upborne by the early patriarchs of our Israel, is now prostituted to the uses of Slavery.
Sumner critiques the corruption of the U.S. Constitution by the institution of slavery, likening it to a sacred object.
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