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.

These Remarks it has become my Duty as the supreme Executive Magistrate of this State to make on the Resolutions transmitted to me. .

What the sense of the Legislature on them will be I cannot take upon me to determine ; but if I can judge from the sentiments of several members of the Legislature & principal officers of Government now with me to whom I have communicated them I have reason to think they awit be considered as by no means satisfactory.

The measuie of the sufferings of this State is nearly full. Those which have been brought upon them by their spirited exertions in the Common Cause & the operations of a powerful & enraged enemy, they have I trust submitted to with a becoming firmness. In what light they will consider the attacks made upon them in the Hour of their Distress by those who ought to be their friends and supporters will be best judged of by , considering the unconquerable spirit they have shown in resisting the IJncroachments and usurpation of the British Government.