[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
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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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