Inspired by the strength and the spirit of the Meeting in the Fields, and led in their o])position to the majority of the Committee, by all the old-time experienced popular leaders, the " Inhabitants of the City "and County," of every class, met, agreeably to the published request of the Committee of Correspondence, at the City Hall, at noon, on the day after those Inhabitants had assembled in the Fields; but they did not confirm the Committee's Nominations, for Deputies to the proposed Congress; and the utmost bad feeling, between the aristocratic majority of the Committee and the great body of the ])lebeian Tradesmen, Artisans, and Workingmen, whom it had betrayed, prevailed throughout the city.'

It is not within the purjjoses of this work, however, to present a narrative of the various movements and counter-movements of the rival factions of the confederated party of the OpjHisition, again disunited, in their determined struggle for supremacy -- nominally, for the establishment of their respective principles, in opposition to or in support of a general "Siispen- "sion of Trade," but, really, for places on the ticket for Delegates to the i)r()posed Congress of the Continent-- which was continued, without ceasing, from the seventh until the twenty-seventh of July f and

1 Proceedht(i9 of the ^tcetiiitj^ appemted to the ^linutes of Ifw Commitfee of Comepoiidnice, " New York, July 7, 1774."

See, also, Holt's Xew- York Jounial, No. IGU, Nf.w-Yokk, Thursdaj', July 7, 1774; Gaino's Kciv-Yoi-I; GnMc mid Mcrnin/, No. 1185, New- York, Monilay, .luly 11, 1774 ; Riiiiigli'HS Xetv-Yoik Gfl;p«w, No. 6.5, New-Youk, Thursclay, July 14, 1774 ; Liruteiuiut-fjoffninr Coldett to Governor Tryoii, "Spring Hill, 2n(l .\ugu6t, 1774;" Hamilton's Life of Alexander UmniUon, i , 21-23 ; Dawson's Park and Us Vicinitu, 34-.'i7 ; Dunlap's Ui»lory of XewYork, i., 453 ; Bancroft's History of the Vniled SUttes, origin.al edition, vii., 79, 80 ; the same, centenary edition, iv., 355, Siie ; de Lancey's Notes to Jones's History of Xi to York during the Revolutionary War, i., 451.