jsuati: Some cannot see that the Slavers were the ultimate contradiction to the Constitution which could not even bring itself to mention the abomination by name. But their fantasies are apparently genetic.
A: Whaddya do, when the Constitution contradicts itself?
Q: Why, refer to higher authority of course. That is the only thing one can do.
The higher authority in this case being the People.
Which was what happened.
(Remember the pecking order? It didn't go through Theodore Weld and Henry Ward Beecher, btw.)