But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man - "William H. Seward"

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man
William H. Seward

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But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.
- William H. Seward
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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
- William H. Seward