OF LANCASTER COUNTY. ^HJ 



Majors Cook, Kelley, Hays and Hare. 

 Colonel Ross. 



Mr. Chambers, Captam Ewiiig, Ca])tain .]. IJubley. 

 Colonel Rodgers. 

 Mr. Clark, Captain Laird. 

 Colonel Elder. 

 On motion, Colonel Rodgers was unanimously chosen Chairman, and 

 Captain Joseph Ilubley, Secretary. 



Colonel Rodgers made a neat and appropriate speech explaining the 

 objects of the meeting, that a rumor was in circulation calculated to do 

 much injury, "that the President of the State of Pennsylvania was hostile 

 to the Independence of America." 



On motion, this question was put to each battalion : 

 Is it the opinion of the members present that they approve of the 

 appointment of John Dickinson, Esq., as President of the State of Penn- 

 sylvania, or not ? 



Answer. The members of the Second Battalion are unanimously of 

 opinion that a better choice of a President could not be made. 

 Colonel Ziegler — Same opinion. 

 Seventh Battalion — Same. 

 Eighth Battalion — Same. 

 Ninth Battalion — We hope the Assembly have made a good 



choice, and if they have we thank them. 

 Colonel Elder agrees in opinion with the Ninth. 

 Resolved, unanimously. That the People have a right to assemble 

 together for their common good, to instruct our Representatives, and to 

 apply to the Legislature for redress of grievances, by address, petition, 

 or remonstrance. 



Resolved, unanimously, That in the opinion of the deputies from the 

 different battalions now met, that the complexion of the present House 

 of Assembly is such that we have no reason to doubt that the Independ- 

 ence and Constitution of this State are safe, and that we highly approve 

 of the appointment of his Excellency John Dickinson, Esq. as President. 

 Resolved, unanimously, That we approve of Colonel Rodgers' calling 

 this meeting, as it has tended to remove doubts and unjust charges that 

 were in circulation to the disadvantage of his Excellency the President 

 of this State, and two of our Members of Congress, James "Wilson and 

 John Montgomery, Esquires; and we conceive such meetings have a 

 tendency to suppress fiilse and malicious reports, and that thereby virtue 

 may meet with its just reward and vice be depicted in its true deformity. 

 Sio-ned, John Rodgers, Chairman. 



J. HuBLEY, Secretary. 

 Manheim, Jan. loth^ 1783. 



