Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.