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tee to which it had been referred. In July, Dr. 

 Manasseh Cutler, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, ar 

 rived as a second delegate to look after the inter 

 ests of the company. He and they were as much 

 concerned in the terms of the governmental ordi 

 nance, as in the conditions on which the land grant 

 was to be made. The orderly, liberty-loving, keen- 

 minded New Englanders who formed the company, 

 would not go to a land where the form of govern 

 ment was hostile to their ideas of righteousness and 

 sound public policy. 



The one point of difficulty was the slavery ques 

 tion. Only eight States were at the time represent 

 ed in the Congress, these were Massachusetts, New 

 York, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, North and 

 South Carolina, and Georgia thus five of the eight 

 States were Southern. But the Federal Congress 

 rose in this, almost its last act, to a lofty pitch of 

 patriotism; and the Southern States showed a 

 marked absence of sectional feeling in the matter. 

 Indeed, Cutler found that though he was a New 

 England man, with a New England company be 

 hind him, many of the Eastern people looked rather 

 coldly at his scheme, fearing lest the settlement of 

 the West might mean a rapid drainage of popula 

 tion from the East. Nathan Dane, a Massachu 

 setts delegate, favored it, in part because he hoped 

 that planting such a colony in the West might keep 

 at least that part of it true to "Eastern politics." 

 The Southern members, on the other hand, heartily 

 supported the plan. The committee that brought 



