How far this Conduct is consistent with the Repeated Resolutions of Congress recorded on their Journals that they will discountenance every species of Disrespect shewn by any Officers in. their Service, to the Legislative or Executive authority of the respective States or with their Resolution of the first of June now transmitted to me " that they will pay an equal Attention to the Rights of the State of New York with those of the other States in the Union" I shall for the present leave it for their Candor to determine. I cannot however forbear observing, that the present Inattention of Congress on this point strikes me with additional surprise when I consider this is not the first Instance in which the Person I have mentioned and some others of their officers of high Rank have aimed a bold stab at the Honor & authority of this State. So long ago as the month of August last I remonstrated to Congress thro' Gen!. Washington on the Conduct of Brigt. Gen!. Starke then commanding at Albany for receiving from the revolted. subjects of this State. several of its citizens who had been apprehended and destined to Banishment by Coll. Allen & his associates & for detaining them under military confinement. To this atrocious insult on the-civil authority of this State Congress though made acquainted with it has not to this day thought proper to pay the least attention. However pure the Intention of Congress may have. been in this Resolution for appointing a Committee to confer with the Revolted Citizens of this State I.am apprehensive it will by no means produce the salutary Effects for which 1 suppose it was calculated,--for notwithstanding the just & generous Terms offered by my different Proclamations founded on the Resolutions _of the Legislature of this State, the refractory Disposition of the principal Actors in this Revolt has still Increased..