Pitkin (HMory of the Vnited States, i.. .324, 32.5,) and Hildreth (History of the Vnited Stales, First Series, iii., 56,) notwithstanding they were New Englanders, did not permit the truth to be suppressed ; but they gave to the Assembly of New York, at least a portion of what was due to it, in honestly written history.
the minority of the Assembly, appears to have been well-studied b}' those who were of that minority ; but it did not prevent it from continuing to hanker after the leadership of whatever movement, in the direc-
I tion of a redress of the grievances of the Colonies, the
j Assembly should be inclined to take. Subsequent events very clearly indicated, indeed, that the minority desired to promote its own factional interests rather than to serve the Colony ; and, undoubtedly with that end in view, five days after the defeat of its first ill-timed movement, and apparently actuated only by purely patriotic motives, Peter R. Livingston, of the Manor of Livingston, one of the leaders of the minority, offered a Resolution "that a day "maybe appointed to take the state of this Colony ''into consideration ; to enter such Resolutions as the "House may agree to, on their Journals; and, in " consequence of such Resolutions, to prepare a hum- " ble, firm, dutiful, and loyal Petition to our most gra- " cious Sovereign." Whatever may liave been the purposes of the minority, in submitting that Resolution, however, it certainly gathered no special advantages