" It is the interest of all men, therefore, to seek for re-union with the "parent .State. A safe Compact seems, in my poor opinion, to be now "tendered. Internal taxation to he left with ourselves. The right of "regulating Trade to be vested in Britain, where alone is found the "power of protecting it. 1 trust you will agree with me, that this is " the only possible mode of union. * « * «

"I am. Sir,, etc,,

"Mb. Pe.vx. "Govverneur Morris."

It was never pretended, if our memory servos ns correctly, that the writer of this letter was a democratic republican : our readers can easily determine, from his contemptuous words, while describing the unfranchised Mechanics and Working-men of this City, how little of a republican of any other class, how much of a believer of the jiolitical dogma of the unqualified equality of all men, be was, notw ithstanding what some historians, so called, have written of him.

In the same spirit, was that note written by James Rivingtou, of New- York, and received by Henry Knox, of Boston, subseipiently a General in the -■Vrmy of the Revolution and Secretary of War under President Washington, and (in his own estimation) never one of the people, which note was detected by the revolutionary leadei-s in Boston, and communicated to the "Sons of Liberty, " in New York, by note, dated 19 June, 177-i. The words iised by Rivingtou were these : " You may rest as- " sured that no non-im-, nor non-ex-portation will be agreed uj^ion "either here or at Philadelphia. The power over our crowd is no "longer in the hands of Sears, Ijamb, and such unimportant persons, " who have for six yeai's past, been the demagogues of a very turbulent "faction in this City; but their power and mischievous capacity ex- " piled in.^tantly uison the election of the Committee of Fifty-one, in "which there is a majority of inflexibly honest, loyal, and prudent "citizens." -- [MS. letter of Thomas Young to John Lamb, '-BoSTOV, 19th "June, 1774," in the "Lamb Papers," New York Historical Society's Library.)