[505] Ohio withdrew her consent to the ratification in January, 1868.

[506] North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia had previously rejected the amendment.

[507] New York withdrew her consent to the ratification January 5, 1870.

[508] Ohio had previously rejected the amendment May 4, 1869.

[509] New Jersey had previously rejected the amendment.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks corrected.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.

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