''The first resi>onses from other Colonies which the Committee received were those, carried by Paul Revere, from Philadelphia and New York, which were anytliing else than "encouraging" to such as composed th.1t Committee ; and there can l>e very little doubt, in the light of what was done, very soon afterwards, in Connecticut and Rhode Island, that Revere carried Imck, from Hartford and Providence, tokensof what might be expected from those Colonies, al.<<), in opposition to the remarkable propositions of the Caucus of Town-Conmiittees, in Faneuil-Hall, and of the Town of Boston, on the following day.

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lowing day, and in the letters from the Committee of Correspondence, covering the proceedings of the Town, which were sent to the Committee in New York, on the following Saturday, as has been, herein, already stated.

The world of historical literature has been favored, in this connection, by one of the most painstaking and accurate of Massachusetts' historians, with a revelation of the trickery and double-dealing of at least one of those who, in the matter now under consideration, have been justly regarded as the leaders of the political elements, within that Colony, which were antagonistic to the Colonial and the Home Governments.

Samuel Adams was the Chairman and master-spirit of the Committee of Correspondence in Boston : he was the Chairman of the Caucus of the nine Town- Committees, assembled in Faneuil-Hall, which had confirmed the line of action, concerning the Boston Port-Bill, which he and the men of Boston, had already contrived : he was the Moderator of the Town- Meeting, at Faneuil-Hall, continued through three days, in which that line of action was adopted and pursued and insisted on : and he inspired, if he did not personally write, those letters, describing and insisting on that line of action, which were sent from Boston, to the Committee in New York, in the saddlebag of Paul Revere, of which mention has been made herein -- all of them, Committees, Caucuses, Town- Meetings, and Letters, being radically in favor of the Boston plan of a " Suspension of Trade," especially for Boston's benefit, and quite as radically resisting the proposal to call " a general Congress," for general purposes.