in NATURAL AND €IVIL 



scheme, decency obliges us to suspend oikr be- 

 lief. The convention are sorry to observe, that 

 by conferring a commission upon colonel War- 

 ner, with authority to name the officers of a regi- 

 ment, to be raised indepelidently of the legislature 

 of this state, and within that part of it, which hath 

 lately declared an independence upon it, Con- 

 gress hath given but too much weight to the 

 insinuations of those, who pretend that your 

 honorable body are determined to support these 

 insurgents ; especially as this colonel Warner, 

 hath been Cdnstantly and invariably opposed to 

 the legislature of this state, and hath been, on 

 that very account, proclaimed an outlaw by the. 

 late government thereof. It is absolutely ne- 

 cessary to recall the commissions given to colo- 

 nel Warner, and the officers under him, as 

 nothing else will do justice to us, and convince 

 those deluded people, that Congress have not 

 been prevailed on to assist in dismembering a 

 state, which of ^11 others, has suffered the niost 

 in the common cause."* To persuade Con., 

 gress to engage in this cause, another application; 

 w.as made to that body, on March the first •: 

 In this the convention of New York represent, 

 that they depend upon the justice of that honor- 

 able house, to adopt every wise and salut4.try 

 expedient, to suppress the mischiefs which mu"st 

 ensue to that state and to the general confede- 

 r-acy, from the unjust and pernicious projects of 

 such of the inhabitants of New York, as merely 

 fromi selfish and interested motives, have fo- 

 mented the dangerous insurrection : That Con- 



• Attested copy of a letter froui the Hon. A. Ten Brock, pre5i4ent. 

 of th>; conventlcn of New York, dated Jan. 20, J777. 



