Notwithstanding the greater significance of the cpposition of Xew York to tlio Tea-tax, wjiich was seen in the resolute refusal to allow the storm-shattered .Vmicj to enter the harbor; in the examination of the cargo of the London, and the open destruction of her concealed Tea, in the light of day, by known men who saw no reason for disguising themselves ; and in the return of the Xancy, to England, by the Commilteo who had taken possession of her, at Sandy Hook ; it has been the custom of Xew England writers to withhold w hatever of honor or dishonor there was in those doings of the party of tlie Opposition, in New York, while the less significant "tea-party " of Boston has been elaborately presented as a feat of great daring and of the highest grade of patriotism.

Thus, Mercy AVarren {Hinlonj of American lievohilion ;) "Paul Allen" {Hittory of American Rerohdion ;) Thacher {MilUarij Journal ;) Morse (AnnnU of the American RetoMion ;) Pitkin (Hitlonj of the United Stales ;) Frothingham (Rise of the Republic;) Lodge (Short Hitlnrij of English Colonies ;) and a multitude of othei's, make no mention whatever of the subject of the opposition in Xew York ; and Rincroft, in the octavo edition of his Hislnry of the I'nited Stales, after alluding, in a dozen words, to the storm w hich hail driven the Xew York tea-ship to the West Indies, very conveniently said no more on the subject -- a suppression of the truth which he shabbily attempted to mitif>Rte, in his centenary and "thoroughly revised" edition of that work, by an interpolation of five lines, nearly two of which have no relation whatever to the subject of Xew York's opposition to the tax ; and nearly two others state, in connection with the .Vniicy, what every novice in the history of those times knows is entirely untrue, in one of its only two statements concerning her.