' HISTORY OF VERiMONT. 22 i 



confidence in Congress ; nor did they fall in 

 Avith the views of those towns, which had joined 

 Vermojit, from New Hampshire and New York. 

 When they had been debated, the assembly 

 voted, October the 19th, that they could not 

 comply with the resolutions of Congress, of 

 August the 20th, without destroying the foun- 

 dation of the universal harmony and agreement, 

 that subsisted in the state, and a violation of 

 solemn compact entered into by articles of 

 union and confederation ; that they would re- 

 main firm in the principles, on which the state 

 had first assumed government, and hold the ar- 

 ticles of union, which connected each part of 

 the state with the other, inviolate ; that they 

 would not submit the question of their indepen- 

 dence, to the arbitrament of any power ; but 

 that they were willing and ready to refer the 

 question of their jurisdictional boundary with 

 New Hampshire and New York, to commis- 

 sioners mutually chosen ; and when they should 

 be admitted into the American union, they 

 would submit any snch disputes to Congress.* 

 The resolves of Congress, though they had 

 jiOt been accepted by Vermont, were considf^r(^d 

 by New York, as a virtual determination of her 

 claims. The legislature of that state, on the 

 15th and 19th of November, passed a number 

 of resolutions, and a solemn protest, sgainst tlie 

 proceedings of Congress. Huviif'", s'atcd 'Iv ir. 

 claims, and related some of the foi ■ c . i- 



ings of Congress relative to the •. -;.,', 



they resolved, that the legislature ^ ; ^^c, 



was greatly alarmed at the evidei t .of 



•* Jouraal of Congress, April 4, 170S, p. jiC— 3' ^ 



