We have found only one Return of an Election in Westchesterconnty, during the period of which we write ; but that very completely illustrates our subject. In the Election for the first Governor of the new-formed State, in 1777, the aggregate of the votes cast in .Vlbany, Cumberland, Tryon, Duchess, I'lster, and Westchcster-counties, including those of the Freemen of the City of Albany, was only twenty six hundred and forty-two. -- (Fragment of a Gemral Returtt of Votes cast throughout tlte State -- iliM:ellttneoM Papers, Volume xxxvii., in the Office of the Secretary of State, at Albany.)

In 1783, when there was nothing to disturb the election, the entire vote of the State for Governor, less that of ten Precincts which was illegally cast, was only four thousand seven liundreil and forty-seven. -- (Uutchins's Ciril Lift mid Forms of Goremment of the Colony and State of Neio Fori-, Edition of 1870, 75.)

From these facts, the reader will understand how completely the governmental power was concentrated in the hands of the wealthy and how little those who were not wealthy could control the Government under which they lived, during the Colonial era and that which succeeded it, until the second Constitution of the State, within our own recollection, broke the power of the aristocracy and made every white male adult, who was a |H-rmanent resident and a tax-i>ayer, also a member of the State and a voter.

♦Rivingtou said the aggregate vote was a thousand and seventy-two.

were required to respect) constituting, also, another and entirely independent factor in the political elements of that period, in each of the several Colonies, which, in its very important relations with the politics and the politicians of its day, must, also, be generally disregarded, in this place, because it, and its aspirations, and its doings, are not, generally, germain to the purposes of this work.