Apparently you don't read what you post since the letter clearly expresses tremendous concern that RI would be treated as another country. Or does he use such terminology as "critical situation which the people of this State are placed..." just for fun? What was so critical? Why would he want to reassure the others that they were not foreigners? Why would he have even written this letter justifying RI's actions? Or stating that it wanted to see the new system in operation and have amendments adopted?
Apparently you have a very severe reading comprehension problem.
The stated concern is that RI "NOT BE ALTOGETHER CONSIDERED AS FOREIGNERS."
And of course, you pretend to be absolutely blind to the fact that the Governor of Rhode Island sent his letter to "To the President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the eleven United States of America in Congress assembled:
The letter was written due to economic difficulties, and stave off threatened invasion and coercion.
Rhode Island was most definitely NOT part of the Union of the ELEVEN United States of America, but prayed not to be treated ALTOGETHER as foreigners.
Regardless of what mindless blathering tripe you choose to post, Rhode Island was most definitely NOT one of the ELEVEN United States of America to whom she wrote.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS,
In General Assembly, September Session, 1789.To the President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the eleven United States of America in Congress assembled:
"The critical situation in which the people of this State are placed engages us to make these assurances, on their behalf, of their attachment and friendship to their sister States, and of their disposition to cultivate mutual harmony and friendly intercourse. They know themselves to be a handful, comparatively viewed, and, although they now stand as it were alone, they have not separated themselves or departed from the principles of the Confederation, which was formed by the sister States in their struggle for freedom and in the hour of danger....
"Our not having acceded to or adopted the new system of government formed and adopted by most of our sister States, we doubt not, has given uneasiness to them. That we have not seen our way clear to it, consistently with our idea of the principles upon which we all embarked together, has also given pain to us. We have not doubted that we might thereby avoid present difficulties, but we have apprehended future mischief....
Can it be thought strange that, with these impressions, they [the people of this State] should wait to see the proposed system organized and in operation? -- to see what further checks and securities would be agreed to and established by way of amendments before they could adopt it as a Constitution of government for themselves and their posterity? ...
We are induced to hope that we shall not be altogether considered as foreigners having no particular affinity or connection with the United States; but that trade and commerce, upon which the properity of this State much depends, will be preserved as free and open between this State and the United States, as our different situations at present can possibly admit....
We feel ourselves attached by the strongest ties of friendship, kindred, and interest, to our sister States; and we can not, without the greatest reluctance, look to any other quarter for those advantages of commercial intercourse which we conceive to be more natural and reciprocal between them and us.
I am, at the request and in behalf of the General Assembly, your most obedient, humble servant.
(Signed) John Collins, Governor.
His Excellency, the President of the United States.
[American State Papers, Vol I, Miscellaneous.]