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With wonder he would ask again by what strange delusion or hallucination the reason had been so far overcome as to recognize Slavery in the Constitution, when plainly it is not there, and cannot be there.
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Sumner questions the reasoning that allows for the recognition of slavery in the Constitution, which he believes is absent.
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