And that the paper signed 'Thomas Young". advising the Inhabitants of the. said District to chuse Members for a Generall Convention, and Delagates for the General Congress and Committee of Safety, and form a Constitution, was derogatory to the Honor of Congress, and a gross misrepresentation of the Resolution of Congress therein referred to, and tended to deceive and mislead the People to whom it was addressed.

That the said Resolutions at first seemed sufficient to quiett the Disorders which then prevailed, and their appeared in many, if not most of the revolters, a Disposition to return to their Duty; But it was not long before the leaders of the Mal-contents, in Print and in Conversation so misrepresented and explained those Resolutions as induced that Party to believe that Congress favored their plan.

That they have since formed a Constitution of Government and elected all the necessary Officers thereof.

That notwithstanding the Revolt was made upon this Foundation that we were thrown into a state of Nature by the Colonies being declared independant of Great Britain and had then a right to chuse our Government; Yet those who continued subjects of one of the United States have not been allowed that Privilege, but the Insurgents both by their civil and military authority, have at every opportunity attempted to compel them to submit to their usurped Government, and very lately many of their principal officers declared in the most publick manner that their Government was determined to enforce submission by arms until Congress should otherwise direct and to leave no doubt of the Sincerity of this Declaration they were then in the Act of Compelling Submission to their Government at the head of about two hundred armed men. That beside this, their pretended Legislature in June last passed an Act declaring that if any Person within this pretended State shall after the first day of September next accept hold or exercise any office, civil or military, other than shall be derived from the said pretended State, he shall for the first Offence, pay a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, lawful money ; for the second offence shall be whipped on the naked Back, not exceeding forty stripes, at the Discretion of the Court; and for the third offence shall have his