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.. By them it will be considered as an implied acknowledgement of their authority & thereby tend to strengthen the usurpation ; and in the minds of the well effected Citizens who know the repeated and uncontradicted Declarations which the principal Revolters have made that they have received Encouragement from several Members of Congress some of whose names are mentioned and who have observed that the most flagrant Insults against the

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civil authority of this State even by Officers of Congress have been totally disregarded It will I have too much cause to fear excite fresh Jealousies. For these Reasons and because the last clause of the Resolution seems to hold up a principle which may be considered by the Legislature as subversive of the internal Polity of the State. I submit it to the Consideration of Congress whether it would not be prudent to postpone the Journey of the Committee till such time as the Legislature have convened & taken the Resolutions of Congress under consideration. For however prejudicial a Delay in this matter will certainly be to the Interests of the State, the evils resulting from it would not be so extensive as these which might ensue from a breach betwixt the Legislature and the Gen! Congress.