of
that event and the movements which followed, notice for the election
and meeting of the legislature was not seasonably given. The con-
vention was therefore again called together, revised the constitution,
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and appointed i-iic second Thursday of March 1773, for the meeting
Of the Assembly. Mr. YouNa had recommended the new consti-
tution of Pennsylvania, providing for a single legislative body, with
some alteration of the pov/crs of the governor's council. This rec;-
ommendation was adopted. But the.peoplc of Pennsylvania soon be-
c<i:me dissatisfied with their constitution, and added a senate to the
legislature. Ours reinained with little alteration until the year
I8o0, when it was also amended so as to provide for a senate.
Against all these proceedings the New York government sent to
Congress their remonstrances. On the other hand, the Green Moun-
tain Boys,contiimed to urge their claims to be acknov.'ledged as an
independent State, and to bo admitted into the Union. They
claimed, that in declaring their independence, they only imitated
the example of the Continental Congress ; that the colonies were
oppressed by the Bi'itish government, and they had been oppressed
by the New Y^'ork government ; that all the civil and political insti-
tutions of the country, which had been established under the author-
ity of the crov>'n of Great Britain, had been dissolved by their sep-
aration from that government, and so far as the government was
concerned, all Avere reduced to a state of nature, and were left to
form such government as they might choose ; and that, in this re-
spect, the people of Vermont were in the same condition as the
other territories, and had