What then must we think of such persons as have propagated a report that the friends of government were, upon this occasion, outnumbered five to one, and that many of the persons whose names were subscribed to the foregoing declaration were not on that day present at the White Plains] They must be conscious to themselves that they have spread abroad a falsehood, and they are hereby called upon, if they dare, to set their names to those assertions. In what manner those gentlemen who chose the committee at the Plains proceeded, we cannot positively say ; but this we can declare with truth, that we do not believe they can produce to the public the names of a hundred and fifiy persons who voted for a committee that day, and we are surely persuaded that they did their utmost to make their party as numerous as possible. How then can they justify their choice of a committee 1 or how can they presume to impose upon the world, and to insult the Lorjal County of Westchester in so barefaced a manner ] It is well known here that two-thirds, at least, of the inhabitants of this county are friends to order and government, and opposed to committees and all unlawful combinations ; and it will be made apparent to the world that they are so, as soon as certain resolves, now signing freely by the people, shall be ready for publication. And one principal reason why tlie friends to government did not assemble in greater numbers than they did, on Tuesday last, was that many of them had already, by signing those resolves, testified their loyalty to the king, their attachment to the constitution, their enmity to the committees, and their acquiescence in tlie prudent measures taken by the Assembly in the late session, for accommodating the unhappy differences between the mother country and the colonies, and consequently thought they had done their duty.