This plan of committees of correspondence and of a meeting of delegates was simply a revival of the methods of the Sons of Liberty, from whose action sprung the first Continental Congress of 1774.
The formation of such an organization would surely have led to disturbance, perhaps to civil war.

During the progress of the New York convention swords and bayonets had been drawn, and blood had been shed in the streets of Albany, where the Anti-Federalists excited popular rage by burning the new Constitution.

But the thirty-three gentlemen who met at Harrisburg wisely tempered these resolutions to a moderate tone.
Thus modified, they recommended, first, that the people of the State should acquiesce in the organization of the government, while holding in view the necessity of very considerable amendments and alterations essential to preserve the peace and harmony of the Union.

Secondly, that a revision by general convention was necessary.

Thirdly, that the legislature should be requested to apply to Congress for that purpose.
The petition recommended twelve amendments, selected from those already proposed by other States.