H^ NATURAL AND CIVIL 



Timothy Phelps, Henry Evans, William Shat- 

 tuck, and such others, as have been condemned 

 to banishment and confiscation of estates, or 

 have otherwise been deprived of property, since 

 the first day of September last, for the damages 

 they have sustained by the acts and proceedings 

 aforesaid, and that they be not molested in their 

 persons or properties, on their return to their 

 habitations in the said district. 



** That the United States will take effectual 

 measures to enforce a compliance with the afore- 

 said resolutions, in case the same shall be diso- 

 beyed by the people of the said district." 



Th e people of Vermont were already preju- 

 diced against the proceedings of Congress ; 

 these resolutions could not fail to impair all that 

 remained, of reverence and respect. The gov- 

 ernor and council sent a spirited remonstrance 

 to Congress against these resolutions.* In this 

 Remonstrance, Congress was reminded of their 

 solemn engagements to the state of Vermont, in 

 their public acts of August 7th and 21st, 1781, 

 which had been fully complied with on the part 

 of the state, but which Congress had refused or 

 neglected to fulfil : They were told that by their 

 own articles of confederation, they had no right 

 to interfere or meddle with the internal police of 

 any of the United States ; and least of all with 

 that of Vermont, from which they had not re- 

 ceived any delegated authority whatever : That 

 Vermont had as good a right to indepeiwience, 

 art Congress ; and as much authority to pass 

 resolutions prescribing measures to Congress, 

 ^5 Congress had to prescribe measures, direct- 



