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On the question for agreeing to include three-fifths of the blacks, Connecticut, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, aye 4; Massachusetts, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, South Carolina, no 6. pp.1076-7-8. THURSDAY, July 12, 1787. In Convention, Mr. GOUVERNEUR MORRIS moved a proviso, "that taxation shall be in proportion to representation." Mr.
He did not, however, either then or now, concur in either extreme, but approved of the ratio of three-fifths. On Mr. BUTLER'S motion, for considering blacks as equal to whites in the apportionment of representation, Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia, aye 3; Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, no 7; New York, not on the floor. Mr.
The vote stood 52 ayes, 43 noes, a three-fifths majority being necessary to submit an amendment. As the Legislature meets only once in four years this was the only action ever taken on a State amendment. At the State convention, held in Tuscaloosa in February of this year, reports were made from 19 auxiliary branches and the organization of 23 non-auxiliary branches was reported.
"It is that if you cannot get me out of the Bastile, and I remain there oh! that will be so, and I shall be a detestable prisoner; I, who have been a passable man, in that case, I give three-fifths to you, and the fourth to your father." "Chevalier!" "Mordioux! If you will have some masses said for me, you are welcome."
It is plain from these provisions 1st That the slaveholding States are entitled under the Constitution to representation in the national legislature upon three-fifths of their slaves, so long as slavery exists in those States; and they are subject to direct taxation accordingly.
It is a tribute of honor to the Supreme Court that through all the mutations of its existence only a single Justice has proved unfaithful to the Union of the States; and prior to the war three-fifths of all the Justices were appointed from the South.
If this time it surmounts the hazard of a three-fifths favorable vote it will be faced by another hazard; for Alabama is one of nine states in which an amendment must pass the A majority vote is required by the constitution of Indiana that is so extravagant as to have caused contradictory decisions in the courts.
The brigantine had left the Congo with four hundred and fifty-five slaves on board, about three-fifths of whom were men, the remainder being young women and children; and of these every woman and child, and one hundred and twenty-seven men had succumbed, leaving, out of the grand total, the miserable moiety of only one hundred and forty-six survivors!
"In tracing the disposal of the proceeds of the 1869 and 1870 loans, it must be remembered that your Committee had no evidence before them relating to the funds resulting from three-fifths of the loan of 1869; only two-fifths of the loan was realized in this country, the remainder was disposed of in Paris before August, 1870, and no account of the application of the funds resulting from such portion of the loan could be obtained.
Milligan led from the start, increased his lead at the end of the first lap, doubled it half-way through the second, and finally, with a dazzling sprint in the last seventy yards, lowered the Eckleton record by a second and three-fifths, and gave his house three points. Kennedy, who stuck gamely to his man for half the first lap, was beaten on the tape by Crake, of Mulholland's.
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