But whenever this same Constitution can, by the grossest perversion, be made instrumental in upholding and perpetuating human bondage, then it acquires, for the time, a marvellous sanctity in their eyes, and they are seized with a holy indignation at the very suspicion of its profanation.
Tappan argues that the Constitution is manipulated by slaveholders to support human bondage, revealing their hypocrisy.
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