" Some difficulties having arisen relative to the Ad- " vertisement published by the Committee, for choos- " ing a Committee of Inspection "--in other words, the handful of professional politicians who assumed to represent the unfranchised Mechanics and Working-men of the City, having repudiated the limitations imposed by the Congress, and insisted that the votes of the great body of the inhabitants, as well as those of the Freeholders and Freemen, of the City, should be received, in the election of the proposed Committee of Inspection -- an interview, between the leaders of those plebeian and revolutionary claimants of political authority and their aristocratic and conservative neighbors of the Committee of Correspondence, was invited by the latter;'^ and, on the fol-

^ Mhin/es of the ConimiUee nf Corn-Kpomleiire^ " New-York, November 7, 1774."

The eleventh Resolution of the Congress, referred to in tlie text, provided "that a Committee he chosen in every County, (^ity, and " Town, by those who are (nullified to vote for Representatives in the " Legislature, wliose business it sliaU be attentively to observe the con- ** duct of all persons, touching this Anmcintion^^ [of Non-ImporUUion, Soii-t 'omiumjitiaii, and Koit'Krjiortati'nt,] ; " and when it shall be made ** to appear to the satisfaction of a majority of any such Committee, that *'any person within the limits of their appointment has violated *'thi8 Association^^ [a-ltrther he mat/ hare consented to ity or " that '* such majority do forthwith cause the truth of the case to lie published " in the Gazette, to the end that all such foes to the Rights of British "America may be publicly known and universally contemned, as the " enemies of American Liberty; and, thenceforth, we respectively will *' break off all dealings, with him or her."