Miller, discouraged and broken by the long struggle, had died in the meantime.
The following passage from a letter written by Whitney in February, 1805, to Josiah Stebbins, gives Whitney's views as to the treatment he had received at the hands of the authorities.

He is writing from the residence of a friend near Orangeburg, South Carolina.
"The principal object of my present excursion to this Country was to get this business set right; which I have so far effected as to induce the Legislature of this State to recind all their former SUSPENDING LAWS and RESOLUTIONS, to agree once more to pay the sum of 30,000 Dollars which was due and make the necessary appropriations for that purpose.

I have as yet however obtained but a small part of this payment.

The residue is promised me in July next.

Thus you see my RECOMPENSE OF REWARD is as the land of Canaan was to the Jews, resting a long while in promise.