The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . saw the negroes must be coimted in theend; therefore they directed their best efforts to the establish-ment of a com^oromise. As the clause finally passod it providedthat both representation and taxation be pro-nortioned to the freeand three-fifths of all other inhabitants, and that a census betaken every ten years. i<andolph took advantage of the way things were going,and moved that representation rest on numbers alone. ITorris wason his feet in an Instant, voicing opposition to a propositionwhich rould overturn his pet ^^rinciple of repre
The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . saw the negroes must be coimted in theend; therefore they directed their best efforts to the establish-ment of a com^oromise. As the clause finally passod it providedthat both representation and taxation be pro-nortioned to the freeand three-fifths of all other inhabitants, and that a census betaken every ten years. i<andolph took advantage of the way things were going,and moved that representation rest on numbers alone. ITorris wason his feet in an Instant, voicing opposition to a propositionwhich rould overturn his pet ^^rinciple of representation propor-tioned to wealth. If Kandolr^hP motion passed it meant that part ofthe werlth of the South was counted while that ox the ITorth was ex-cluded. Morris could see as a result of the motion a union betweenthe est and the outh, leaving the ITorth in the minority. Morrishad to see any division into Northern and Southerninterests, but now he said that he believed the gentlemen from ^1) ^arrand, I, 583. (2) fbid, I, the South v/ould not be eatisfied until they saw a way open to gain-ing a majority in the i-ublio onmcils. If the distinction betweenthe South and Worth was real let us at once take a friendly leaveof each other V/ith the power in the hands o+ the South and theinterior country, he conld see no advantage to the North in confed-erating fl). This speech was the farthest from deserving commend-ation of B,ny :,lcrris delivered in the Convention. tienerally hewas patriotically disinterested and unselfish,striving to establish-the best possible government under the circumstances. But thingshad been going Dad with !!orris in the last ten days. He had stren-uously opposed both tHe census and the representation for the slaves,but he had been defr>?^ted on both Now by the adop-tion of Randolphs resolution he was again defeated, and thistime on one of his pet theories, that representation should be pro-portioned to wealth. The fi
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