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Vermont should be derogatory to the authority^ 

 or dangerous to the confederacy of the United 

 States ; or that the interposition of Congress 

 would be the means of establishing peace in 

 the states Law, justice and order, they assert 

 were established in Vennont, before Congress 

 -passed their late resolutions j what discord they 

 would occasion, time would determine ; But 

 that it was the general opinion that a ratification 

 of their stipulated agreement, would have had a 

 more salutary tendency to promote peace, than 

 -their late resolutions, i 



''-As to the requisition that *^ the state xvithoilt 

 delay make full and ample restitution to those 

 tvho had been condemned to banishment and 

 confiscation of estate," they observe, That Con- 

 gress had been so mutable in their resolutions 

 respecting Vermont, that it is impossible to know 

 On what ground to find them, or what they de- 

 sign next. At one time they guarantee to the 

 states of New Hampshire and New York, their 

 lands to certain described limits, leaving a place 

 for the existence of the state of Vermont ; the 

 next thing Vermont hears from them, is, they 

 are within these limits controling tlie internal 

 gorernment of the state. Again, they prescribe 

 preliminaries of confederation, and when com- 

 plied with on the part of the state, they unrea- 

 sonably procrastinate the ratification. 



To that part of the resolves in which the state 

 Was threatened, " that the United States would 

 take effectual measures to enforce a compliance 

 with their resolutions, in case they sliould be 

 disobeyed by the people of said district," they 

 return for aaswer, that the state would appeal 



