: re: Constitutionally, Slavery Is No National Institution

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:07 PM
Subject: re: Constitutionally, Slavery Is No National Institution
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

    While leaving lesser crimes (like murder) to the States, our nation's founders wrote the fugitive slave clause right into our constitution.  Harboring another man's slave is thus a high crime on the order of treason. No logical argument can get from here to prof. Wilenz' conclusion that we "did not sanction slavery in national law".

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/opinion/constitutionally-slavery-is-no-national-institution.html