...the 1st article, reads as follows: — " Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included in this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound...

...foreign influence, and sanguinary invasion. By the constitution of the United States, it is provided that 'representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned...among the several states, which may be included in the union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole...

...these questions, because the answer is contained in the constitution itself. That constitution declares that ' representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned...included in this Union, according to their respective numbers.' It then provides that five slaves shall, in making the enumeration, be considered equal to...

...The federal constitution provides that " Representative and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states, which may be included in this Union, according to their respective numbers." Thus far there is a similarity and only a similarity in the language of the national and...

...representation, even in this house. The words arc, " representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States, which may be included in this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound...

...The Constitution, art. 1, § 2, says : " Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included in this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound...

...the free States, that, in the words of the Constitution, " Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included in this Union, according to their respective numbers;" if all who are held in slavery were treated in this respect as persons and not as property,...

...' Monitors ' are but twelve to eighteen inches out of water in action. Population.* The population of the United States has been ascertained at all times...section 2 of the Constitution, which provides that ' Eepresentatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included...

...language." Had he been asked to say, then, what the Constitution can mean by declaring (Art. I. § 2) that " representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned...included in this Union, according to their respective numbers ; which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those...

...country are apportioned according to numbers. The Constitution provides, in Section 2 of Article I., that "Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned...included in this Union according to their respective numbers;" and the same section directs that " the actual enumeration shall be made within three years...