Which says that slavery is a matter of state law.
Crash, burn, whimper.
"This may require us to speak farther in regard to our opinions upon the general question of slavery. We think the Constitution of the United States was so framed as to give its protection to the institution in the organized States where it existed. But, notwithstanding the recent decision of the Supreme court of the United States, a body whose offically expressed opinions very many persons, we regret, are inclined to regard as too sacred to be called in question, notwithstanding this decision we have found no sufficient reasons to change a position previously maintained by us, that slavery is a matter of local policy, a subject for State legislation, a domestic institution existing, and existing only by virtue of municipal law, which the people of the State, and they only, can abolish, but which, as above stated, neither the people of the nation, or of any State possess any inherent right to plant on soil where it does not already exist." --Quindaro Chindowan, May 13, 1857