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I have now to inform you that the opposition to the Congress has done some good in our Assembly. Mr˙ Galloway spoke most ably; he told the House that the measures of the Congress, if pursued, would ruin America, reduce it to a conquered country; that they ought to be opposed, &c˙, &c. A congressional termagant retorted on him with more violence than sense, declared that there was not one man in a thousand who disapproved of their proceedings. The former replied that he was mistaken; that thousands and tens of thousands abhorred and dreaded
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them; that their numbers were increasing with the most amazing rapidity, &c˙, &c. These debaters ensued upon a motion of the House to consider the Governour' s Message relative to a Petition to the King; on a division, I think there were nineteen for taking the matter into consideration ten days hence, and eighteen for throwing it out. Before this division, the Pennsylvania' s oracle proved, to the conviction of every Member, that no Petition from America had ever been rejected, when couched in such terms that it could be received with dignity. Should our Assembly agree to petition, it will be done in a very dutiful style, without retrospect on their own conduct.