That those who continue in allegiance to New York have refused entering into this unprovoked and unreasonable Rebellion against lawful Authority, not only from Principles of Affection and Duty to the State of which they are a part; but because they conceive that an internal Revolution undertaken at this critical Juncture, must be attended with bad consequences to the common Cause of America. The Powers of Government must at such a time be necessarily weak, and consequently inadequate to the extraordinary exertions which our Country requires from us, both of Men and Money. The precedent which it would make for the disorderly Subjects of other States, and the contempt shewn to the Resolutions of the honorable the Congress, hereinafter in part recited, are other reasons why we have chosen not to join in measures so extraordinary.

That the Vermont Faction in the year 1777 made application to the honorable the Congress that what they had already declared an independent State, might be considered as such by Congress, and that delagates therefrom might be admitted to Seats in that honorable House. Whereupon Congress among other things resolved, that it was composed of Delagates chosen by-- and representing, the Communities respectively inhabiting the Territories of New Hampshire &* & New York &¢ & as they respectively stood, ut the time of its first Institution. That it could not be intended that Congress by any of its Proceedings would do recommend or countenance, any thing injurious to the rights and Jurisdictions of the several communities which it represented. That the independant Government attempted to be established by the People stiling themselves Inhabitants of the New Hampshire Grants, could desire no Cowntenance or Jusiification from the Act of Congress declaring the United Colonies to be independant of the Crown of Great Britain, nor from any other act or Resolution of Congress.