Gazette Of The United States

Accomack-County, April 26, 1796.
To the honourable JOHN PAGE.
SIR.
Yesterday being Monday the 25th of April was the day on which by the laws of this state the freeholders of the County aforesaid were to choose delegates to represent them in the Legislature of Virginia for one year, on which day they were pleased to honor us with that trust, they were pleased also to request us to make known to you as the delegate in Congress of that District in the State, of which this county constitutes a part, their sentiments relative to a very important concern, which they are informed, is at this time before Congress.
We do therefore assure you that in a very full and respectable assemblage of the freeholders and other good citizens of the county aforesaid yesterday, they declared it to be their opinion without a dissenting voice, that the treaty lately made and ratified by the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of two thirds of the Senate on the one part and the king of Great Britain on the other part, ought to be carried into complete effect. They admit a power in Congress to defeat the operation of the treaty by refusing to pass the laws necessary to carry it into effect, but they are of opinion that under the present existing circumstances of the United-States (whatever opinion they have heretofore entertained of it) it will be more politic and expedient that Congress should co-operate in its execution, than to withhold their aid. They therefore adjure you, so far as you may respect their sentiments, that you concur in all laws necessary to carry the said treaty into effect.
We are Sir, with great respect,
Your very humble servants.
JOHN WISE.
THOMAS EVANS.
Northampton, April 23, 1796.