For the purpose of extending its authority and of increasing its power, in whatever might arise, in its evident intent to control not only the great body of the unfranchised masses of every class, in the City of New York,^ but the Colonial and the Home Governcal writers, who has inclined to tell the exact truth, on tliis subject ; and what he said of it occupied less than two lines of an octavn page.

3 The 'Caucus, at Sam. Francis's, at which the apiiointment of the Committee was determined on and its Members nominated, defined, in its firet Resolution, the purposes for which that Committee was to be ajipointed and tlie authority wliich should be vested in it -- " to corre- " spond with the neighboring Colonies on the jiresent important Crisis," excluding all other subjects, {I'roceedings of the Mft-ling, among the Broadsides, in the Library of the New- Y'ork Historical Society.)

* That James Diiane and John Jay, to whom reference is here made, were not apt to l ecoguize any funilamental obstruction to or requirement from whatever they should incline to do or not to do, is well known to every one who lias closely studied tlie histories of the doings of tliose gentlemen, subsequently, in the various branches of official life to wliich they were respectively called.

^ In all the political o]>erationsof that period, the several Counties of the Colonies were regarded as entirely independent bodies, each controlling itself to the extent, even, of semling independent Delegates to the Continental Congress -- the centralization of authority, indeed, was the fundamental grievance against which all the Colonies were, then, raising their remonstrances and their opposition to the measures of the Ilinne Government -- and it must not be supjiosed that, in the instance referred to, in the text, the Committee sought the direct control of the masses, in any other County than in that of New Y'ork -- it sought no more than tosecure the control of those, within the several Counties, who did control those masses, within their several neighlKirhoods ; and, therefore, it sought to