At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.
Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.
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