. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... 483 WASHINGV NS r*ECEPT10N AT TRENTON- FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. it was ratified by eleven States. NorthCarolina did not ratify it until November,1789; and Rhode Island held aloof fromthe Union until May, 1790. The right ofthese States to reject the constitution, andto continue their separate existence as inde-pendent States, was not questioned by anyone. The new constitution was not entirelysatisfactory to any party, and representedthe sacrifice
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... 483 WASHINGV NS r*ECEPT10N AT TRENTON- FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. it was ratified by eleven States. NorthCarolina did not ratify it until November,1789; and Rhode Island held aloof fromthe Union until May, 1790. The right ofthese States to reject the constitution, andto continue their separate existence as inde-pendent States, was not questioned by anyone. The new constitution was not entirelysatisfactory to any party, and representedthe sacrifices made by all to achieve the. great end of a central government, strongenough to carry out the objects of theUnion. It was a document of compromises,three of which were of especial first was a concession to the smallerStates, which had feared the loss of theirindependence; they were placed on thesame footing as the larger States by beinggiven an equal representation in the second was a concession to the slave-holding States of the south, and guaranteed that in apportioning their representation inCongress three-fifths of the slaves were to beincluded with the white population. Thethird was a concession to Georgia and SouthCarolina, and granted them permission tocontinue the African slave-trade until delegates from those States refused tosign the constitution except upon this con-dition. Decimal Currency. In the meantime Congress had taken astep of the highest importance in adoptingthe plan, presented by Mr. Jefferson, for adecimal currency. Until now the use of theEnglish currency
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