< The venerable Lieutenant-governor of the Province was evidently in excellent spirits, from that result, when he w rote the Di^sjiatches to General G ige and the Karl of Dartmouth, which were referred to in the last preceding Xote.

5 " When the question to adopt the Sleasures recommended by the Con- " gress was negatived by a Majority of one only, in this Assembly nf "twenty-six Individuals, the Ministers were in high spirits; and these '• Individuals were then repre.'sented iw 'all .Vnierica.' " -- (Governi^r .Tohostoue's Si>errli in Hie U'lWe'f Coiiiniuiiii, May 15, 1775 -- .\lmon's I'urlimntM- ttiry tieguter^ i., 47;j.)

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

that rejection of Colonel Ten Broeck's Resolution was only the prelude, that Vote of the Assembly has supplied a theme on which those who have seemed to play the part of historians of that portion of America's history, have based much of what they have said, unduly commendatory of Massachusetts and Virginia and quite as unduly denunciatory of everything which pertained to New York, unless of some of the men of New York, of that early period, whose characters, for fidelity to the truth and tiprightness in the discharge of public duties, were no better than their own. '

The lesson which the defeat of its dishonorable movement, under Colonel Ten Broeck, had given to

1 Gordon (HMnryof Americnn RerohitMii, i., 471) led off, in the work of detraction, by saying " The Massacluisetts Congress were displeased with "the proceedings of tlie General Assemlily of New York," for this Vote, among others, as if the approval of any merely insurrectionary body were necessary to ensure th^ respectability, in history, of any General Assembly, legally elected, legally convened, and acting in conformity with law. Ramsay {Hv^torij of the Americnn Ih-vvhifu'tt, i., 14.3) insinuated, in the absence of s\ifficient authority to assert, that " the party for " Koyal GovernuuMit," -- although there was not a member of that party witliin tbe -Assembly, and although the Colonial Government was confes.sedly without influence enough to be made acquainted with its intentions-- led the Assembly to reject the Resolution.