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This act of New York, the instructions of Maryland, and a remonstrance
of Virginia were referred to a committee of Congress, who reported a
preamble and resolutions thereon, which were adopted on the 6th
September, 1780; so much of which as is necessary to elucidate the
subject is to the following effect, viz:
That it appears advisable to press upon those States which can remove
the embarrassments respecting the Western country a liberal surrender of
a portion of their territorial claims, since they can not be preserved
entire without endangering the stability of the General Confederacy; to
remind them how indispensably necessary it is to establish the Federal
Union on a fixed and permanent basis and on principles acceptable to all
its respective members; how essential to public credit and confidence,
to the support of our Army, to the vigor of our counsels and success of
our measures, to our tranquillity at home, our reputation abroad, to our
very existence as a free, sovereign, and independent people; that they
are fully persuaded the wisdom of the several legislatures will lead
them to a full and impartial consideration of a subject so interesting
to the United States, and so necessary to the happy establishment of the
Federal Union; that they are confirmed in these expectations by a review
of the before-mentioned act of the legislature of New York, submitted to
their consideration.
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