respondenee in New York ; but, without tlio eliglitest sliadow of liutli, it stated tliat tlie Cumuiittee was coiitiDlIed by Isaac Sears, who was one of the minority of that body ; and tliat it was opposed hy "the To- "rics," not one of which party was then a member of the Committee. Ramsay's IlUtory of the United State', London : 1791, i., 114, correctly assigned the origination of the Congress to New York ; but it inaccurately stated that it was done "at the first meeting of the inhnbitauts," instead of at the first meeting of the Committee which the inhabitants liad chosen, a few days previously, for their political leaders. Ilililreth's UiMui-ij uf the L'liiliil iS/u/ts, New York : 185G, I'ivat Series, iii , presented the facts as they really took place, giving to the Connnittee of Correspondence of New Y'ork tlie origination of the Congress ; anil Leake's Memoir of General John Lamb, Albany : 1857 ; Dawson's Park and itn Vicinity, New Y'ork : 18.55, 33 ; McDonald and Blackburn's Sonthcrn llislnry of the United States, Baltimore : 1869, 171) ; and de Lancey's Xotea on Jones's History of Xew York during the llevnlutionary Il'iir, New Y'ork: 1879, i., 443, 444, follow that e>cellent example. Bancroft's Jlistory of the United i<tat€s, original edition, vii., 40, correctly yii-Mf the honor of having originated the Congres-s, to New Y'ork ; but, unaccountably, it assigns it, in New Y'ork, sometimes to an imaginary " old committee," whicli had ceased to exist when the Stanip-,\ct, which had called it into existence and to which its operations had been limited, Wiis repealed, eight years previously, and sometimes to the eight or t-in men who styled themselves and who were known as ' tlie Sons of I^ib- "erty," all of wlmm who were members of the Committee of Correspondence, appointed at the Coffee-house, were notoriously in accord with the men of Boston, who advocated an immediate suspension of the Commerce of the Continent and opposed the proposition to call a Congress for the general relief of all the Colonies.