A resolution adopted in the deepest distress, to listen to no terms of reunion with their parent state, would, it was believed, convince those who wished for the dismemberment of the British empire, that sound policy required their interference so far as to prevent the conquest of the United States.
[Footnote 53: Ramsay.] [Footnote 54: Ramsay.] [Footnote 55: Secret Journals of Congress, vol.ii.p.

38, and post.].