Statistics for occurrence #1 of “State of Rhode Island” in chapter 1.9, section c.1.9.35 of Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17.:
...or nearly two years after the first ratification, by Delaware in December, 1787, North Carolina held aloof from the Union, and for more than a year after the government went into operation, the great State of Rhode Island remained a free and independent nation.
No attempt was ever made, or even suggested, to force them into the new Union, or to infringe even the least of their rights as free and independent States.
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