 No, we're not going along with this. If you're not giving them rights to be people, then they shouldn't even count in the census. So this way, then the North, if that proposal had gone through, it would have been closer to a 60-40 split in favor of the North, really diminishing the political power of the South, which, right, that's a huge deal. If the South wanted to keep pushing West and expand slavery, without that political power, that would become significantly harder.