>They were so corrupt, they jury rigged congress to count their slaves as 3/5ths of a person to gain representation in Congress to which they were not entitled.
If they were that corrupt then they would have made the number 0; that it was less than 1 meant that the Union would HAVE to take up the issue at some point in the future. Remember that the primary author of the Constitution refused to sign it because they didn’t outright abolish slavery; that they didn’t outright abolish slavery was only because of politics. (Kind of like the reverse of Catholics and the health-care-reform bill; congress/Obama could garner a LOT more support [from the Catholics] if they were to drop abortion-funding wholly from the bill — in fact, it can be argued that the VERY reason this bill will fail is because it’s an “my or not at all” approach that is being pushed.)
They had to take it up because the number was over 0. That was the corruption. Jefferson's aristocracy got 3/5ths more representation in Congress for every slave it held. Jefferson and his fellow slave owners did what ACORN does today--rig Congress in favor of Democrats (Jefferson ran from the label "democrat". Being called that was almost as bad as being called a "Jacobin". Jefferson insisted he held republican values. But soon his faction called itself "Republican-Democrat" and then, once they had grabbed power, "Democrat").