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1553. CONGRESS, Non-attendance.—

It is now above a fortnight since Congress
should have met, and six States only appear.
We have some hopes of Rhode Island coming
in to-day, but when two more will be added
seems as insusceptible of calculation as when
the next earthquake will happen.—
To James Madison. Ford ed., iii, 347.
(A. Dec. 1783)