Immediately after the organization of the Committee had been completed, a letter was received from " the body of the Mechanics, signed by Jonathan "Blake, their Chairman," informingtheCommittee of the concurrence of the Mechanics with the other inhabitants of the City, in their nomination of it ; which clearly indicated the entire good faith of the great body of the unfranchised masses, in the transfer of the leadership of the confederated party of the Opposition, from those, with revolutionary tendencies, who had called themselves "Sons of Liberty," to the aristocratic, conservative elements of the party opposed to the Colonial policy of the Home Government, which had been made at the Coffee-house, on the preceding Thursday ; and clearly indicating, also, that whatever the difi'erences between the two factions, on social questions, might be, they were one in all which related to the great political questions of the day, concerning the obnoxious features of the Colonial policy of the Home Government, notwithstanding the disappointment of some of the assumed leaders of those masses, when they had failed to secure seats in the Committee * -- the sinister purposes of those who

Commillee -- both re-printed in Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, i., 340-342.)

1 The Committee of Correspondence of Philadelphia to the Committee of Correspondence to Boston, " Piiilapelpiiia, May 2\ft, 1774," copies of which " were transmitted to New-Toik and most of the Southern Colo- "nies."

2 Minutes of the Commillee, " Xkw-Tork, Mondor/, Mnij 23(/, 1774."

3 Minutes of the Committee, " Kew-York, M<ajW, 1774."