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[email protected] Personal Care Personal Service farragutpress.com • @farragutpress • @farragutpress1 • © 2021 farragutpress all rights reserved • 50¢ ISSUE 36 VOLUME 33 FARRAGUT, TENNESSEE THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2021 • 1A ‘Hard on my family:’ Lafferty on national criticism Knoxville’s McKenzie on House speech: have reached out to us,” he added Constitutional Convention. in an e-mailed statement to far- He did, however, reference what “our Founders ... ‘it was an eerie and sad feeling’ ragutpress Sunday, May 9, in re- wrote frequently, and for long times, about what this sponse to a series of questions sent stain of slavery would do to our country.” ALAN SLOAN to Lafferty late last week. That led to another point of criticism from Laf- ■
[email protected] “Please allow me a little time ferty’s speech, when he said the Compromise had a and I will try to address your ques- noble purpose concerning abolishment of slavery: Admitting the past week-plus of racially charged tions in a follow-up e-mail.” “... The Three-Fifths Compromise was a direct ef- criticism “has been hard on my family” — reaching Lafferty defended the Com- fort to ensure that Southern states never got the pop- national levels as stories ran on CNN and in The New promise, where Northern and ulation necessary to continue the practice of slavery York Times among many other worldwide media out- Southern states agreed to Consti- everywhere else in the country. What does that mean? lets — state Rep.