What would have been your preference? Slave states demanded slaves be counted as a whole person for representation, even though slaves couldn't vote for pro-abolitionist candidates, so they could have dominated Congress? Non slave states dug in their heels and demanded slaves not be counted at all? This all led to war? That was Kelly's point. You know the saying; a good compromise is both sides walking away not getting everything they wanted.Originally Posted by Androidpk
Of course in the general sense that slavery is bad it was a bad compromise but abolishing slavery wasn't going to happen that day.
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