He uses irony by being a man once without freedom speaking to an audience about slaves who deserve freedom on July 4th which is a day that celebrates freedom and liberty. The short paragraphs that follow question 14 prove that both American republic political and republic religion were inconsistent but shows how slavery was never among the nation’s list of worries. He ends the paragraph with a quote from the Founding Fathers to show how they have gone against Thomas Jefferson’s words of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Douglass uses the analogy of a gateway: the preamble and the temple: the body of the Constitution to address a powerful justification that slavery is not okay and the belief is protected by the Constitution which people need to